Morning Joe Minimizes Trans Sports Issue, Calls Republicans ‘Beta’
On Thursday, the second hour of MS NOW’s Morning Joe turned into a prolonged discussion on transgender athletes in women’s sports as co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Willie Geist minimized the issue and said Republicans were "obsessed." Then, Scarborough and Geist attacked Republicans, with Scarborough saying there was a “raging current” and “reservoir of beta maleness underneath this Republican…
Morning Joe Worries For Democracy and Decries WH Bans with Dana Bash
On Wednesday, Morning Joe continued to decry the White House barring MS NOW, CNN, and Politico from White House grounds and, in the process, feared for democracy as Mike Barnicle asked Democracy Forward CEO Skye Perryman, “What can people do to pay attention to the demolition of democracy. Imemdailty after Perryman’s answer, the show teased an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash, which included…
MS NOW Lets Hochul Claim Trump Promised to ONLY Deport the Worst
On Friday's Morning Joe, MS NOW co-host Willie Geist cued up Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) to accuse President Donald Trump of breaking his promise on which illegal aliens would be deported.
Morning Joe Defends El-Sayed, Does Not Like Trump Mentioning 9/11
On Thursday’s Morning Joe, in continued reaction to far-left Abdul El-Sayed’s victory in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, the hosting crew of Willie Geist and Jonathan Lemire decided to defend El-Sayed from claims of communism and even socialism. They also showed great displeasure with President Trump’s call of communism as “The greatest threat to our country in its history” and invoked 9…
Morning Joe Lets El-Sayed Slide on Controversial Positions
Morning Joe gave Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed a friendly platform Wednesday morning and failed to press him on the radical implications of two of his signature positions: Medicare for All, and his condemnation of Israel as an "illegal apartheid state" that is "bloodthirsty" and commits "genocide."
Eddie Glaude on 250th: America a 'White Republic' of Greed and Hatred
Happy 4th to you, too, Eddie! MS NOW contributor and Princeton professor Eddie Glaude Jr appeared on Tuesday’s Morning Joe to offer a characteristically grim take on America as the nation nears its 250th birthday. Glaude described America as a "white republic,” built on "greed and selfishness and grift and hatred." Invoking Moby Dick, he analogized the US to an ugly "white whale" that "choke[s…
Chris Matthews Says Iran Gets ‘Help of American Media’ In Conflicts
On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, former MSNBC host Chris Matthews acknowledged Iran has always used the “help of American media” to peddle images of war back to the American audience to hurt the opinions of American presidents, including his former boss, President Jimmy Carter, amid the Iranian hostage crisis.
'4-on-1 Seems About Right': Scott Bessent's Morning Joe Master Class
A poised, unflappable Scott Bessent delivered an absolute masterclass on today's Morning Joe. Scarborough, Geist, Lemire, and Barnicle took their best shots and came up empty every time. The ultimate embarrassment for the show came went Mike Barnicle told Bessent he assumed that he'd had a very good day in the stock market the day before, because the DJIA jumped on news that the government…
Jonathan Martin Admits Government Shutdown Is about Dems Defying Trump
During an obligatory discussion about the second-longest government shutdown in U.S. history, Morning Joe guest and Politico columnist Jonathan Martin admitted on Wednesday that Democrats were holding out in defiance of President Trump while using health care as a “vehicle.” Trump hosted Senate Republicans for lunch at the White House on Tuesday, indicating a united Republican front.
Dem Catfight! Morning Joe Blasts Booker For Attacking Fellow Dems
Morning Joe plays clips of Cory Booker, a Dem senator from New Jersey, theatrically criticizing fellow Dem senators Masto and Klobuchar for supporting a police-funding bill he opposes. Joe Scarborough, Mike Barnicle, and Claire McCaskill all criticize Booker's stunt, designed to appeal to the Dem base looking for a "fighter."
'Morning Joe' Cues Up Hochul to Decry ICE Raids in New York
On Monday's Morning Joe on MSNBC, the show provided Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) a forum to bash ICE arrests in her home state and to peddle a misleading claim that children were taken by ICE for little reason even though agents were in pursuit of an alleged child predator when the children were removed.
CNN, MSNBC Morning Shows Rush to Celebrate Far-Left Mobs at Town Halls
If you tuned into CNN and/or MSNBC on Thursday morning, the message was clear based on their coverage of supposed “anger” at congressional Republicans over the Trump agenda and Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and hits from the left at Democratic town halls: Blue wave incoming! Nevermind these protests at GOP town halls — including one Wednesday night they were warm and…
Scarborough's Ugly Hypocrisy on Trump's Springfield 'Political Prop'
On Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough accuses Donald Trump of using the death of a boy in Springfield, Ohio as a "political prop." The boy was killed when a Haitian migrant, who did not have a driver's license, slammed into the boy's school bus. But Scarborough insists on keeping onscreen a front-page, 5,300-word New York Times article about it that is harshly critical of Trump. Scarborough then…
Morning Joe 'Surprised' McMaster's Trump Book Isn't All Negative
Retired Gen. H.R. McMaster is out with a new book detailing his time as former President Donald Trump’s national security advisor, and while the book is not by any means an ode to Trump, it is also not the typical anti-Trump book that MSNBC’s Morning Joe has become accustomed to. On Tuesday’s show, the assembled cast admitted after their interview with McMaster that this “surprised" them.
