On Monday morning, the anti-conservative echo chamber of MSNBC's Morning Joe again spewed vitriol at President Donald Trump and his supporters, with MSNBC contributor Donny Deutsch predicting the President will return to a "maggot-infested place," and host Joe Scarborough invoking the Jim Jones suicide cult while fretting over evangelical Christian support for the President.
As the group speculated about whether President Trump will leave office willingly, Deutsch brought up Republican strategist Karl Rove's concerns that Trump will look like a "sore loser," and then seemed to allude to HBO host Bill Maher's "whiny little b****" slur against Trump as he refrained from fully saying it:
There's just something in our culture, who we are, what we're about that a sore loser is kind of the bottom of the food chain. I think that's going to stick with Trump. You know, we've seen this -- you mentioned those polls, the Gallup poll -- he's lost six points in approval ratings since the election whereas most candidates who actually lost an election, they grow in approval ironically. Trump's going backwards. And I do think this kind of sore loser whiny little -- I'm going to use a word I'm not going to use because then I won't be able to be on the show anymore - just sticks with him.
He then predicted that Trump will return to a "maggot-infested" place:
I think he will go back to that kind of little maggot-infested place that he was in,, this kind of like P.T. Barnum circus reality critter. And that's what he'll be. But if you look at him now -- and I challenge everybody at home, as you watch Donald Trump, as you watch images -- I know I used to see those images and hear him, and I would squirm and I would get angry and I would get frightened. Now, you kind of chuckle, and he looks weak, and he feels weak, and he sounds weak. And as the great Karl Rove said, he's just a little baby sore loser.
Scarborough then alluded to reports of bedbugs in Trump's Doral resort as he jumped in to make a crack about Deutsch's anti-Trump commentary:
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Okay. Well, first of all, Donny Deutsch with a light touch, I just want a correction there. It's bedbugs.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI:: Oh, bedbugs in Bedminster.
SCARBOROUGH: Well, there may be bedbugs in Bedminster. There are a lot of bedbugs at Doral.
The MSNBC host then went to the left-wing Reverend Al Sharpton to comment on why so many evangelical Christians support President Trump. Here's Scarborough:
So, Reverend Al, you wrote this weekend about what happened to my party over the past 50 years -- what happened to the conservative movement over the past 50 years. A lot of us had who grew up in the Baptist Church -- Southern Baptist Church -- and the mainline Protestant denominations are asking, "What in the world is happening with our church and the evangelical movement?"
The Morning Joe host later likened President Trump to the infamous cult leader, Jim Jones, who inspired a mass suicide:
Well, some religious leader and evangelicals are now out on the tip of the spear spreading conspiracy theories, saying they're ready to die for Donald Trump, and other people should be ready to die for Donald Trump. This is not Christian theology, this is Jonestown theology, and you can just look at the facts, and it's basic.
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MSNBC
Morning Joe
December 14, 2020
7:18 a.m. Eastern
DONNY DEUTSCH: He will leave, and, you know, I'm going to quote Karl Rove which I often do. I have Karl Rove quotes next to my bed. And he said, you know, "America does not like a sore loser. They like a comeback story," but there's just something in our culture, who we are, what we're about that a sore loser is kind of the bottom of the food chain. I think that's going to stick with Trump. You know, we've seen this -- you mentioned those polls, the Gallup poll -- he's lost six points in approval ratings since the election whereas most candidates who actually lost an election, they grow in approval ironically. Trump's going backwards. And I do think this kind of sore loser whiny little -- I'm going to use a word I'm not going to use because then I won't be able to be on the show anymore - just sticks with him.
And I think, as time moves on, and as the vaccine gets into people's arms and as the economy continues to grow -- I think it will continue to stay strong -- and as we are dealing with a little peace as opposed to chaos, I think Donald Trump will be a moment in time. I don't think Donald Trump is permanent. I don't think Donald Trump is the future of the Republican party. I think he will go back to that kind of little maggot-infested place that he was in,, this kind of like P.T. Barnum circus reality critter. And that's what he'll be. But if you look at him now -- and I challenge everybody at home, as you watch Donald Trump, as you watch images -- I know I used to see those images and hear him, and I would squirm and I would get angry and I would get frightened. Now, you kind of chuckle, and he looks weak, and he feels weak, and he sounds weak. And as the great Karl Rove said, he's just a little baby sore loser.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Okay. Well, first of all, Donny Deutsch with a light touch, I just want a correction there. It's bedbugs.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI:: Oh, bedbugs in Bedminster.
SCARBOROUGH: Well, there may be bedbugs in Bedminster. There are a lot of bedbugs at Doral.
BRZEZINSKI: Doral
DEUTSCH: No maggots?
BRZEZINSKI: Wait, so many bedbugs. So itchy!
SCARBOROUGH: A lot of bedbugs.
BRZEZINSKI: This guy sued.
SCARBOROUGH: Let me go to Reverend Al, and let's take this to a higher level. ... So, Reverend Al, you wrote this weekend about what happened to my party over the past 50 years -- what happened to the conservative movement over the past 50 years. A lot of us had who grew up in the Baptist Church -- Southern Baptist Church -- and the mainline Protestant denominations are asking, "What in the world is happening with our church and the evangelical movement?"
(...)
Well, some religious leader and evangelicals are now out on the tip of the spear spreading conspiracy theories, saying they're ready to die for Donald Trump, and other people should be ready to die for Donald Trump. This is not Christian theology, this is Jonestown theology, and you can just look at the facts, and it's basic.
