florida governor ron desantis in iowa yes today, not mentioning donald trump by name, but still taking a few swipes at him. i think he was. we will show you what else he had to say about the front runner in the race for the republican nomination. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, may 31st. good to have your with us, along with joe, willie, and me. member of the new york times let s show jonathan really quick. okay, go, go. okay. we done this before. can we stop for a second? tj, i am scratching my face. you want to go to me now? and also, this historic day leave him alone. let s do jenna. hold on. cover me for a second, tj. okay. oh, we ve got jen. see, she can t even mess up! now now. good morning. okay. is my collar straight? thank you. let s actually get to work. hold on. when we do get to work, it s going to be a lot of fun, because i m going to get the yankees in a second, but these republicans will donald trump
You got to worry about what happens when republicans are in power, because then as it happened under george w. bush, the spending is out of control. the democrats love spending, too. if the republicans want to spend, democrats are going to stop them. it s important for them to do what we did when we were there. we stopped our own republican brothers and sisters from spending too much. balanced the budget four years in a row. do you think he listened? he did not listen. not only did he not listen, they were led by a guy i don t know if you ve heard this quote before, but this is donald trump, and he said, the debt ceiling is a sacred element of our country. dog, cat, horse, person, mule. that s a very, very sacred thing in our country, debt ceiling. first of all, i just want to if we could, let s break up
When republicans are in the white house, whether it s george w. bush or w trump, suddenly they spend money more than anybody else in u.s. history. it s happened twice. it s a matter of numbers. they can t fake news their way out of it, they can t lie their way out of it. it s in the numbers. it s in donald trump s own treasury department numbers. and yet, jim, they say a reckoning is coming, this right the fact donald trump they said nothing with donald trump did this three times and actually attached spending bills onto them raising the debt limit with no limits. what hypocrisy. i don t really get it. even allowing for the hypocrisy that we are seeing from these house republicans, when democratic presidents are in charge, this is what they do. they hold the country hostage, this is what they do. but what i don t get is that there doesn t seem to be a the