MSNBC’s Morning Joe Exposes Trump Team’s Hypocrisy: ‘Are They Stupid?’

The hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” dissected a series of hypocrisies within the Trump administration during a Tuesday morning segment, with co-host Joe Scarborough questioning whether the president and his allies are “stupid.”

The discussion began with an old clip of Trump criticizing former President Joe Biden for falling asleep during a White House press event. Trump had vowed never to be seen sleeping on camera, yet this has occurred since his return to office. Scarborough used the moment to highlight other inconsistencies in Trump’s administration.

“Our point’s not that Donald Trump is sleeping in the White House. Our point’s not going to the billions of dollars [the Trump family has made in office],” he explained. “It’s going to be the sheer hypocrisy of followers who literally went on saying ‘Sleepy Joe.’ We’ve got somebody even sleepier in the White House now.”

Scarborough continued, “The Biden crime family? We’re talking about maybe a couple million dollars versus four billion, five billion, maybe, and then ‘Thanks, Biden!,’ for the gas prices.” He showed clips of Republicans reacting to gas prices at $3, $3.25, and $3.50, noting that prices are now at $4.50.

“These things happen. We’re at a war,” Scarborough acknowledged. “But the hypocrisy of Trump followers, the hypocrisy of people who are speaking on his behalf. Are they stupid?”

He then criticized Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other cabinet members for past warnings about Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.

“There is video! We see what you said last year and the year before. We see what you said about Iran. We see what members of Donald Trump’s family said about ‘Donald Trump will never go to Iran. Kamala Harris will,’” Scarborough said. “I mean, the hypocrisy comes so fast that people don’t stop and just show how ridiculous they were a year ago.”

“Their followers, again, just [following] blindly like in a cult,” he added. “Their followers [are] just going along going, ‘Oh, well, it’s different.’ Yeah, it is different. It’s exponentially worse now.”

Co-host Jonathan Lemire responded, “I think it’s not that they’re stupid, I think it’s that they’re shameless. I think that’s the superpower from President Trump and so much of his inner circle.”