Tuesday, MSNBC “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough compared President Donald Trump to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini for acting like an authoritarian and saying he can reopen the United States economy.
Scarborough noted that Trump previously said that as a president he has “total authority,” which he noted is a “full Mussolini thing.” The host then pointed out how Trump goes “back and forth” over his stance regarding opening up.
“I counted three or four sirs yesterday in the press conference that I didn’t want to watch,” Scarborough stated. “You wonder if the guy like walks to the helicopter and he sees a frog, and he goes, the frog said, ‘Sir, sir, you sure look tall today.’ Where does he get all the sirs from? He wouldn’t even say, ‘Isn’t that something that the frog is talking?’ But how would you like to be one of these lackeys that are following Donald Trump? Because think about it. If you’re a Trump lackey and you have to follow everything he says, first you start by saying it’s a hoax, that it’s being blown up and blown out of proportion. And I know, there was a certain lackey that was attacking me for using the 1 to 2 million number. Then, of course, Donald Trump used it, like, two days later — felt really sorry for him. But just the last week or two, Trump talks about, ‘I have total authority.’ He does the full Mussolini thing. Really, it’s pretty incredible, that an American president does the full Mussolini thing, but he does.”
“He just keeps going back and forth and back and forth — I guess, I don’t know why, so he can’t ever be nailed down by people,” he added. “The problem is, he just weakens his case every day.”
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