MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough cut to commercial in the middle of a phone interview with Donald Trump on Monday morning when the Republican presidential candidate would not stop talking to let Scarborough ask a question.
“You’ve got to let us ask questions, you can’t just talk,” Scarborough told Trump.
“Joe, I’m not just talking,” Trump responded.
Scarborough quickly jumped in again and said, “You’re not going to keep talking. We will go to break if you keep talking. We’re going to ask you questions.”
“Go to break then, Joe,” Trump hit back. “All I’m doing is giving you the facts.”
The “Morning Joe” host then ordered producers to cut off the interview, repeatedly saying, “Go to break!”
MSNBC cut to a commercial break before returning to the rest of the interview with Trump about his new proposal to ban Muslim immigrants from the U.S.
Watch part of the interview posted online on Tuesday. Scarborough begins telling Trump to answer questions near the 1:25 mark.
Thousands of citizens cheered Trump’s announcement of banning Muslims entry to the U.S. GOP Prez candidates denounced Trump for his remarks. Fingers get pointed all around. Where in all this is someone denouncing those that cheered? Aren’t those heartily agreeing with Trump equally guilty of fearmongering xenophobia? I want to hear a candidate say Trump AND those agreeing with him are to be deplored for their attitudes.
Watch?
If thine eyes offend thee, pluck them out with a dull teaspoon and pack the bloody sockets with red hot salt.
I’d like to take this opportunity to extend a hearty “go fuck yourselves” to all the fascists, racists, losers, and stone-cold dumbasses that support this buffoon.
Trump was upset and bloviating but going to break was no big deal.
I’d venture you just told tens of millions to eff off. Rewind history 75 years, transplant our populace to Germany, and a great many U.S. citizens would be helping in loading the boxcars bound for Auschwitz.
Authoritarians are always with us and always have been. They’re always there, waiting for any excuse to come crawling out the muck and proclaim their contempt for democracy and freedom and civil rights. The officer corps of the Army of the Potomac was infested with them, constantly mulling the idea of a coup to replace Lincoln with a dictator (and, oddly, it was Lee who finally put an end to that nonsense when he inflicted a humiliating defeat on Hooker–the last self-appointed nominee for the position–at Chancellorville). They were bubbling and marching thoroughout the thirties and forties, surrounding Huey Long and Father Coughlin and the German-American Bund. They were the most enthusiastic McCarthyites, the members of the state sovereignty commissions, Wallace’s supporters and the people cheering the murders at the end of “Joe” throughout the fifties and sixties. They come crawling out to cheer every last police shooting and they surround Trump.