Friday on MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” while discussing President Donald Trump acting on “impulse” “PoliticsNation,” host Al Sharpton brought up the nuclear football, which contains the launch codes for a nuclear strike.
Sharpton said it was “dangerous to think that this man is actually walking around with the codes and acting on impulse and ego.”
Partial transcript as follows:
LOPEZ: What Secretary Kelly, he announced it today, so he’s the adult in the room at this moment, with the DACA issue, but tomorrow, the president actually realizes what the secretary did and do something different? That’s the problem, and that’s the level of uncertainty, when you have someone who’s kind of isolated himself between him, Jared, and Ivanka, and they roll out a plan like the one we saw today in Florida, as the government tries to actually keep up and, you know, clean up the mess.
SHARPTON: You said tomorrow, is his Twitter broke tonight?
WALLACE: On a serious point, do you — how do you see these decisions? Do you think Bannon was in the bathroom when he decided on DACA? How, sort of, influenced is he?
SHARPTON: I think he’s very influenced by the last group of people. He prides himself that ‘I am the boss. I’m going to make the decision.’ And I don’t know if Bannon wasn’t in the room, but if it was positioned in a way, he’s not going to dig down into the policy of it. He does it on instinct. And I think that’s what’s dangerous to think that this man is actually walking around with the codes and acting on impulse and ego. That is very frightening, all jokes aside. And I think when you look at the fact that he can have such a diametrically opposing view on various policies that affect those parts of the world, it shows that we as a nation better be very careful.
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