Morning Joe
06:18 AM Eastern
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Wow, uh, well, here we go. Uh, it was really hard to believe that this is what we had for four years. Here’s some of President Trump’s hour-plus speech, yesterday, at CPAC—complete with an enemies list.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Oh, how Nixonian of him.
[CUTS TO CLIPS OF PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SPEECH AT CPAC]
SCARBOROUGH: Let’s just turn him off. I can’t. I mean, seriously? Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I can’t. I can’t listen to it. You know, um—
BRZEZINSKI: It really is hard.
SCARBOROUGH: Mara Gay, that was painful; that was a—that was a long four years. Um, but you know what’s interesting, Mara, is he’s talking about, oh we’ve got the Republican Party, we don’t need whatever. Well, this was like the most hardcore, of the most hardcore, wing of the Republican Party, self-selected Trumpers who knew he was going to speak, and he still only gets fifty-five percent of the Straw Vote. And somebody called and said, how is that? I said, well, you know, if Barack Obama could run another term, and they had a Straw Poll, at a PAC, Barack Obama would get about ninety percent—maybe ninety-five percent. I mean, for Donald Trump to be sitting at fifty-five percent—I mean, I’m not so sure, in fact, I know, those numbers are much lower than, I’m sure he and everybody else there was expecting.