Morning Joe decided it was time to stop tiptoeing around Trump's incoherence.
"First, there's a lot of discussion about President Biden's age and whether or not he seems to be slipping at all, whether he is still up for the job. There was a moment last week where eyebrows were raised. At a fundraiser the president had in New York City, he told the same story twice, seemingly not remembering he'd told it the first time. That said, President Biden has been able to do the job, and his record speaks for itself. Aides are quick to point that out," Jonathan Lemire said.
"We've been giving Donald Trump a pass so much because he's always sort of, frankly, spoken like a crazy person many times. If you read the transcripts of his speeches, they're very hard to follow. He is so all over the place, it is tough to pin down what he actually means. These red flags, these verbal missteps, only picked up in the last weeks. The windmills and whales are nuts. The World War II reference last week. We had this one confusing the Bushes. The list goes on and on and on.
"One does wonder, as much as polls suggest voters don't care as much about Trump's age than Biden's, he is only three years younger than President Biden. If Biden is going to be questioned about his fitness for the job, voters should take the same look at Trump, who has been all over the place and seems to be, and social media posts show this, too, under increased pressure due to the legal cases.
"The whale thing was bizarre. He said the windmills are driving whales crazy, so they're washing themselves up on shore. The point is, this is a man not only who is advancing in years, clearly, as you watch those performances, but he's got a lot on his mind, having nothing to do with whales or Jeb bush or Obama or World War II.
"I mean, he's projecting. he usually projects himself onto people he's running against. Now, he's going out and projecting himself on whales. Yes, Donald, it's the whales who are crazy right now. The whales. But think about this. It goes back to what we said yesterday, which is, Joe Biden is sitting there playing by Marquess of Queensberry rules, going, 'The GDP is going to rise by 2.49.' I mean, that's how I talk, okay? I'm not running for anything. He needs to do better, all right? He needs to start hitting Donald Trump back."
He said Biden needed to start repeating Trump's statements.
"Everybody, this is what Donald Trump thinks and what he's thought over the last two weeks. That he ran a primary contest against George W. Bush in 2016. And he beat him, even though George W. Bush had gotten us into the Middle East. And then he thinks, alternatively, that he ran the general election in 2016 against Barack Obama.
"And he said last week, 'Nobody thought we could beat Barack Obama, but we did.' He stumbled around with Obama's name, and then he went on to say he beat -- he was going to beat -- oh, no, that he beat Barack Obama in 2020, as well. Then, of course, on to the part about where Joe Biden was going to get us into World War II in 2024. The reason why those numbers are higher and the reason why people are comparing Hunter Biden's laptop to stealing nuclear secrets is because the Republicans have been hammering Joe Biden over this nonstop. The White House considered itself above the fray."
Well, no, Joe, not quite that simple. People are talking about Joe Biden's age because the media has been amplifying the absurdities. Including Morning Joe. Stop chasing clicks if you really want democracy to survive.
