If there's one guy in the liberal media who should be modest about boasting, "I told you so," it's Joe Scarborough.
Scarborough is the guy who—in the face of Biden's undeniable decline—assured voters that "this was the best Biden ever," angrily bellowing, "and f-you if you don't believe it."
Yeah, well, we told you so, Scarborough. Biden was obviously unfit to serve.
Before you go bragging about your keen powers of foresight, how about offering a sincere apology to your viewers for having so blatantly misled them about Biden's ability to lead? Ironically, the very morning after Biden's disastrous debate, Scarborough, collapsing like a house of cards, was among the first calling on him to quit the race.
But on today's Morning Joe, Scarborough, discussing the fallout from Trump's tariffs, boasted "I spent three months after the election warning Republicans they needed to be careful. Three months. I've got -- we've got about ten minutes of clips we could play you."
Scarborough also attacked Bill Ackman, the Wall Street billionaire and long-time Democrat donor, who came to support Trump, but now says Trump should implement a 90-day time-out on the tariffs. Mocked Scarborough: "Bill Ackman. Oh! He saw the light."
Scarborough accused Ackman of shifting to Trump because "someone said something at a college that he didn't like," and that we need to fight the "woke warrior."
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
4/7/25
6:05 am EDTJOE SCARBOROUGH: So, as we talk about this, and we're at 30,000 feet talking about the stock market and talking about banks and talking about oil and talking about—all the people that we heard—those trickle-down effects are going to be felt by working Americans who can afford it the least.
And they're being told [slams table] by billionaires that there's nothing to see here. They're being told by millionaire talking heads on other networks, there's nothing to see here. It's a war that we had to enter.
No, no. Let's be very clear here. Regardless of how you feel about tariffs, this is a self-induced war that we started. All right? All right. This is voluntary.
I spent three months after the election warning Republicans they needed to be careful. Three months. I've got -- we've got about ten minutes of clips we could play you. We've already done it before. Like, play it again. Ten minutes of clips saying, be very careful. We have the strongest economy in the world, but we have bubbles in the market, stock market. We have bubbles in crypto. We have a fiscal bubble. Be very careful. Manage it wisely. And we will continue to see working Americans taken care of. That's not happening right now.
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Bill Ackman. Oh! He saw the light. How could Bill Ackman ever have seen this coming? How? How? Okay. Oh, wait a second. This is exactly what Donald Trump promised for years! In fact, he's been talking about this since 1987. All right? So he believes in this.
So people on Wall Street are going, oh, my God, I'm so shocked. How could this ever happen? I supported him, but I really didn't think he was going -- What do you mean? He's been saying tariffs are beautiful, beautiful things, while the rest of the world has been saying, no, they're not. They're dangerous. This is what made the Great Depression extraordinarily bad and extended it, right?
So, you knew. You knew, Bill Ackman. I'm sorry somebody at a college said something that offended you. I'm sorry, like, oh, we've got to fight against the woke warrior. Well, I agree with that, too. But you don't have to do it by blowing up the world economy.
So we'll see what happens. But here's the thing. Always remember, if you hear anybody today, tomorrow, next week say, oh, this had to be: no, that's not true. That's doublespeak. And if you hear Republicans saying we can't do anything about it, that's just a lie.
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I just want you to know, though, when they're telling you this has to be done, that's not true. And when they're telling you, these Republicans on the Hill, we can't do anything about it. Well, that's just a lie.
