Scarborough Calls on ‘Coward’ Ron DeSantis to ‘Shut Down Florida’ — Trump Supporters ‘Acting Like Total Jackasses Infecting Each Other’

Wednesday, members of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” urged “coward” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) to “shut down Florida” to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Host Joe Scarborough called on President Donald Trump to speak with DeSantis, who has said he is awaiting the White House Coronavirus Task Force’s recommendation to implement a stay-at-home order, and tell him to shut down the state of Florida “since he doesn’t have a backbone.”

“If Ron DeSantis, Mr. President, is too much of a coward to shut down the state of Florida on his own, you need to give him a call today and tell him to shut down the state of Florida, or there are going to be a lot of dead senior citizens that are going to have to be buried over the next several months because of this inaction,” Scarborough remarked. “And that’s science, that’s not politics. It’s Republicans, as well as Democrats, independents that are going to die. People in the greatest generation, a lot of them who were born in World War II  … or born during the Great Depression and grew up, were young during World War II and help build the American century. Those are the people who are being betrayed and abandoned right now because the governor of the state of Florida won’t shut down beaches and sandbars.”

He continued, “And I tell you, last weekend — I saw pictures from last weekend the sandbars were still packed. By the way, Mr. President, a lot of Trump flags on the boats at the sandbars with people acting like total jackasses infecting each other, taking those infections home and infecting their grandparents and sending them to hospitals. Think about that. … The recklessness is just unbelievable. So, please call Ron DeSantis since he doesn’t have a backbone, apparently, since he still can’t see everything that’s been happening over the past couple of months and still won’t do what is required to save senior citizens from this hellish end to their life, dying alone — dying alone. Give him a call today, Mr. President, and tell him to do the right thing and shut down Florida. This impacts you, too. If you don’t want to do it for the right reason, do it for the political reason.”

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