“Morning Joe” criticized former President Donald Trump for being “objectively incoherent” in recent clips from rallies and speaking engagements, and advised him to stop portraying President Joe Biden as a “doddering old man” because that's a comparison he would lose.
“We can play recordings almost every day, including yesterday, when he was speaking at 40 Wall St. about the decision to have his bond changed, and it truly is objectively incoherent,” said Willie Geist about Trump. “If you watch the full clips, even if you watch one of his rallies, I’m not sure this is a fight he wants to have talking about Joe Biden being a doddering old man.”
The conversation started when Joe Scarborough brought up a statement from Biden campaign spokesperson James Singer responding to Trump as “feeble, confused and tired.”
“Donald Trump is weak and desperate, both as a man and a candidate for president. He spent the weekend golfing, the morning comparing himself to Jesus and the afternoon lying about having money he definitely doesn’t have,” the statement read. “His campaign can’t raise money, he is uninterested in campaigning outside his country club, and every time he opens his mouth, he pushes moderate, suburban voters away with his dangerous agenda. America deserves better than a feeble, confused and tired Donald Trump.”
Scarborough mentioned that the last part makes him particularly “irritated” because while Biden is criticized for being “old and feeble and a poor man who can’t remember,” the president is the one out there campaigning circles around Trump.
“It’s Donald Trump who has been staying in his country club and other places, holding only one event, and that’s an event for a Senate candidate because they don’t have the money to organize many events,” Scarborough said, frustrated.
That’s when Geist added, saying that while Trump criticized Biden as the “basement candidate” in 2020, he’s become the “beach club candidate” running a 2024 presidential campaign from Mar-a-Lago.
“And clearly, as you just read in that tweet,” Geist said, referring to the Biden campaign’s scathing statement, “the Biden campaign is ready to have this fight, too. So there has been, it appears at least in recent weeks, a shift in posture from the Biden campaign being much more aggressive, especially on this issue of age and mental fitness for the job.”
Watch the full “Morning Joe” segment in the video above.
