Friday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough mocked certain voices on the right for their disapproval of President Donald Trump’s reported deal with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy.
Scarborough argued what Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity, conservative commentator Ann Coulter, Breitbart and Rep. Steve King (R-IA) were missing in their criticism of Trump for the deal was the same thing a lot of people in the mainstream media missed about Trump.
“Right now Willie, a lot of things going on in Washington, DC – a lot of charges, a lot of counter-charges,” Scarborough said. “There were actually people who were shocked yesterday that Donald Trump didn’t do exactly what he told them he would do during the campaign. And I know you’ll appreciate this — people like Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter and Breitbart but to hear them talk, it sounded an awful lot like, it sounded like members of the mainstream media.”
“’He’s doing what? He cannot do this. This is a shock. This is the most shocking thing I have ever seen in my life,’” he continued. “Steve King was like, ‘Trump’s base will not stand for this.’ I’m like, ‘Yes, they will because Trump’s base stands for everything.’”
Scarborough went on to say Trump’s base stands for what Donald Trump stands for and not necessarily the ideas of those aforementioned voices.
“It seems to What Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Breitbart, everybody else is going to learn is what the flummoxed mainstream media learned and what people on the right and left learned, what Jeb Bush learned, what Marco Rubio — Donald Trump’s base is not Ann Coulter’s base, it is not Sean Hannity’s base, it is not Steve King’s base. It is not CNN’s base. It is not Jeb Bush’s base. You know where I am going with this. It is not ‘Morning Joe’s’ base. Donald Trump’s base is Donald Trump’s base. And just because Steve King and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity feel insulted now because he’s done something they don’t like doesn’t mean Donald Trump’s base is going to leave Donald Trump because they’re just not.”
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