Joe Scarborough didn’t mince words when it came to President Donald Trump’s social media tirade threatening “Hell” on Iran.
Trump drew the ire of Democratic officials and some Republicans when he demanded that Iran reopen the Strait of Hormuz — through which much of the world’s oil supply passes ― in an obscenity-filled post on his Truth Social platform on Easter Sunday.
“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Trump wrote. “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah.”
On Monday, Scarborough condemned the “muted” response to the president’s post among many members of the GOP, noting that the reaction would have been very different had those remarks appeared on the social media account of any other president.
“It would have shut down Washington had it been done by Joe Biden, by Barack Obama, by George W. Bush, by Bill Clinton, by anybody that sat in the Oval Office before Donald Trump,” the co-host of MS Now’s “Morning Joe” said, adding that the response “shows you just how numb not only the Republican Party, but also a lot of members of the press, have become to the most outrageous of statements.”
