MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough took Donald Trump to task Wednesday morning for allowing his children to play a central role in his presidential campaign, saying it’s time to bring in the political pros.
“There is nobody in this family that has ever run a political campaign before or picked a vice president,” the “Morning Joe” co-host said. “That is exactly why you get your family out of management.”
Scarborough also said it’s “really insulting” that Trump thinks he can take the White House without seasoned politicos.
“I’ll say this directly to the Trumps. You’ve never done this before, and yes, you won the Republican primary, but to suggest that just because you’re close as a family that you all alone can run this…is handing the presidency to Hillary Clinton,” he said.
“If Republicans want to beat Hillary Clinton, it is time to bring on professionals,” Scarborough finished.
After a guest tried to suggest top aide Paul Manafort brought that brand of old-school political savvy to the campaign, the former Florida congressman said his first reaction to Manafort’s hiring was “Who’s Paul Manafort?”
Trump’s sons Donald Jr. and Eric have been frequent surrogates on the campaign trail. Donald Jr. delivered an impassioned, well-received speech last night in Cleveland, and Trump’s youngest daughter, Tiffany, also spoke. Eric and Ivanka Trump are also slated to address the crowd in Cleveland before the convention closes.
Watch the exchange via MSNBC:
.@JoeNBC on the Trumps: Nobody in this family has ever run a political campaign before… time to bring on pros https://t.co/3opZNVJQG8
— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) July 20, 2016
Dump is barely lucid. I think his kids have been running the business for several years, and this is the best they can manage under the circumstances. Sad!
Joe Joe Joe…of all the things you’re concerned about regarding Trump, it’s that his kids are running the campaign? You’re just now figuring this out, that Trump is a bit of an embarrassment?
But hey, at least the glasses make you look smarter.
I’m not sure Joe has thought this on through.
It’s my impression that the only check on Trump’s megalomania are the children. Take that away and you are left with an unrestrained racist/white nationalist traveling circus.
Trump hates the political pros, often leaving the kids as the only voice of reason.
It was the kids who got him to make at least some policy speeches by teleprompter.
It was the kids who intervened to stop the attack on a Federal judge.
I’m sure their are other instances of the kids returning a reeling Trump to some semblance of sanity.
Joe needs desperately to believe that Trump would make a fine POTUS and standard-barer for his party if only he ran his campaign a little better. Trump’s complete failure of leadership of his campaign and that implication as to the Pres Trump would make seems to have gone unnoticed.
In other news, Joe Scar humps Trump’s leg while Mika looks on appreciatively.
And they think that this approach will work for the presidency inasmuch as they apparently offered almost presidential power to Kasich. How nice to know people will really be voting for Pence for President (while Trump will just be the addle-pated, sleep-deprived figurehead who is more interested in working on his golf swing and applying gilt to all of the White House interiors).