‘What A Jackass!’: Joe Scarborough Stunned By Trump’s Latest Lie

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough on Monday morning went to city on Donald Trump’s newest story involving an unnamed “sir,” a verbal behavior of the previous president that commentators have beforehand famous just about means he’s about to lie.

“It’s not even a good lie for Donald Trump,” mentioned the anchor.

Over the weekend, Trump railed towards the NATO army alliance at a marketing campaign rally and claimed, “One of the presidents of a big country stood up and said, ‘Well sir, if we don’t pay and we’re attacked by Russia, will you protect us?’ I said, ‘You didn’t pay? You’re delinquent?’ He said, ‘Yes, let’s say that happened.’ No, I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. You gotta pay. You gotta pay your bills.”

Watch Trump’s speech within the video right here:

Scarborough extremely doubted Trump’s model of the occasions.

“Nobody is saying that. What a jackass!” he mentioned. “How stupid would you have to be in that audience to go, ‘Oh, well, did they really say that? That’s amazing. I can’t believe a big country president would say that.’ It’s just stupid.”

The “Morning Joe” cohost recommended Trump was “now so desperate to support [Russian President] Vladimir Putin and undercut America’s allies in Europe, he’s making up a ‘sir’ story?”

“It’s not even a good lie for Donald Trump. Like, this is you can tell he’s losing it,” he mentioned, later including it was the sort of story that even a third-grader would query.

Watch the video of Scarborough’s take: