On Monday's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough trashed President Trump for saying at the Charlie Kirk memorial service that he hates his opponents.
Referring to Jesus' instruction to forgive and love one's enemies, Scarborough declared, "You either get it or you don't get it." Scarborough thereby clearly placed himself in the category of those who follow Jesus' words.
But Scarborough is the same person who, over the years, has attacked Trump in the most vicious terms. Earlier this year, we compiled this list of some of Scarborough's ugliest hits on Trump. Scarborough:
- Called President Trump a "thug" and a "goon."
- Written that Trump "is not mentally equipped to continue watching our show."
- Smeared Trump in one long breath as a "bumpkin, fool, idiot, stupid old blubbery man who doesn’t know what he’s doing; weakest leader on the planet;” suffering from "pre-dementia.”
- Called Trump a "jackass" and "plain out stupid."
- Accused Trump of “malignant idiocy,” and transforming into a “tyrannical president.”
- Called Trump a "schmuck," a vulgar Yiddish term, and compared him to a kid "pooping his pants."
And our Alex Christy reported, based on an analysis of a year's worth of comments, that Scarborough won the dubious distinction of being "The King of Nazi Analogies," with Trump being his main target.
A sign of true forgiveness is to stop mentioning one's grievances against another. But five years after Trump suggested Scarborough's complicity in the death of a congressional aide, Scarborough continues to raise it regularly.
So spare us your self-righteous hypocrisy, Joe, and take that beam out of your eye before you begin criticizing Trump for failing to love his enemies.
Scarborough had the audacity to find the moral opposite to Trump: "This takes me back to practicing Catholic Nancy Pelosi saying that she prayed for Donald Trump every day. You pray for, as Jesus commanded us in Matthew 5, you, you pray for, you, love your enemies. You pray for those who persecute you."
Yes, Pelosi loved and prayed for Trump so much that she took advantage of her biggest forum of the year to contemptuously tear up Trump's State of the Union speech as she glared at him behind his back.
Here's the transcript.
MSNBC
Morning Joe
9/22/25
6:00 am EDTERIKA KIRK: That man. That young man. I forgive him. I forgive him because it was what Christ did and is what Charlie would do. The answer to hate is not hate. The answer we know from the Gospel is love and always love. Love for our enemies and love for those who persecute us.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Thas was an emotional, an emotional moment yesterday from the widow of Charlie Kirk.
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DONALD TRUMP: He did what was right for our nation. And so on that terrible day, September 10th, 2025, our greatest evangelist for American liberty became immortal. He's a martyr now for American freedom.
He was a missionary with a noble spirit and a great, great purpose. He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent. And I don't want the best for them. I'm sorry. I am sorry, Erika.
But now Erika can talk to me, and the whole group, and maybe they can convince me that that's not right, but I can't stand my opponent.
SCARBOROUGH: That was some of the president's message at the memorial service for Charlie Kirk. And David French, this [laughs], this takes me back to practicing Catholic Nancy Pelosi saying that she prayed for Donald Trump every day. You pray for, as Jesus commanded us in Matthew 5, you, you pray for, you, love your enemies. You pray for those who persecute you. Jesus said, what good does it, what good does it do if you love your friends and you hate your enemies? I command you to hate [sic, love] your enemies and to pray for those who persecute you.
And it's something Donald Trump just didn't get when Nancy Pelosi said it. And even yesterday in a friendly crowd, just didn't.
You either get it or you don't get it. I mean, it's, and one of the things you do learn is that if you follow Jesus' commandment, it's actually better for you in the end.
But right now, there's, and there's a discordance, too, because, you know, at times you go, well, this sort of, if everybody was wearing coat and tie and white shirts and a tie, it would look like a Billy Graham crusade from the 1960s, right? And you, with a lot of the same words being used.
And then you have Donald Trump saying, yeah, and I hate my enemies. And part of the crowd erupts in cheers. And that's [laughs] where you're like, wait, these two things do not go together.
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DAVID FRENCH: What we watched unfold in front of us was, when he spoke like that, this wasn't in contradiction of what so many Christians wanted out of their president here. It is exactly why so many Christians voted for this president.
