MSNBC host Joe Scarborough is having a rough day. The same media schlub who waved around the “I told you so” foam finger when stocks whipsawed on April 7 over President Donald Trump’s tariffs is doing the backstroke now after the markets surged just a day later.
“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,” boasted a snooty Scarborough during the April 7 edition of Morning Joe. Stocks were bouncing over and under the flat line Monday, with the Dow and S&P 500 eventually just being off one percent and the Nasdaq ending in the green by the close, according to Axios.
But Scarborough wagged his finger at the GOP: “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 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.”
“Regardless of how you feel about tariffs, this is a self-induced war that we started. All right? All right. This is voluntary,” railed Scarborough. It wasn’t just one day after Scarborough’s bombastic lecture that the Dow Jones Industrial Average surged 1,400 points, the S&P 500 ticked up 3.4 percent and the tech-heavy Nasdaq spiked 4.2 percent on hopes of renewed trade negotiations in the morning before later “losing steam” by the close. Still, watching Scarborough being forced to have to walk back his “W” April 8 during his morning show and bumble over himself to spin the new stock numbers while holding up the front page of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal is must-see-TV: “I will say, Mika, fortunately, the overnight — Asia rebounded pretty strongly. Europe's looking pretty good. Futures also looking strong right now for the United States.”
Remember when Scarborough called Trump a “jackass?” Who’s the “jackass” now, eh Joe?
Of course, Americans shouldn’t expect anything less from the MSNBC talking head brigade. Both Scarborough and his co-host Mika Brzezinski were recently popping their brain corks over DOGE chief Elon Musk’s March 10 interview with Fox Business host Larry Kudlow, and brazenly lied that Musk was promising to “eliminate” Social Security and Medicare, despite the fact that Musk was specifically addressing cutting waste, not the programs themselves.
