Joe Scarborough Slams ‘Racist’ Mike Huckabee Tweet: ‘Parallels to the 1930s in Germany’
The tweet from Huckabee showed MS-13 gang members and said they were working with Nancy Pelosi to take back the House
Jon Levine | June 25, 2018 @ 6:23 AM
Last Updated: June 25, 2018 @ 8:30 PM
Joe Scarborough opened up Monday’s edition of “Morning Joe” with a swipe at Mike Huckabee, blasting a tweet from the former Arkansas governor as “so racist” and said it could be compared to something out of Nazi Germany.
“Mike Huckabee sent out a tweet this week, it’s so racist that you even had an awful lot of conservative Christian leaders coming out,” said Scarborough. “Whatever you want to call it — you pick — if you don’t want to pick, let’s say, parallels to the 1930s in Germany, let’s say David Duke, if that makes you feel more comfortable.”
The tweet that Scarborough referred to said that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi would use gang members to help win back the House of Representatives for the Democrats.
“Nancy Pelosi introduces her campaign committee for the take back of the House,” Huckabee wrote on Saturday, with accompanying an image of MS-13 gang members.
Nancy Pelosi introduces her campaign committee for the take back of the House. pic.twitter.com/yKDhkVubck
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) June 23, 2018
As Scarborough said, the Huckabee tweet, posted just hours after he condemned the “bigotry” experienced by his daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, at the Red Hen restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, sparked broad recriminations on the left and also among the governor’s allies on the right.
The National Review’s David French even went so far as to ask how Huckabee’s employers at the Trinity Broadcasting Network could continue to air his show in good faith.
They “must be so proud of the public witness of one of its flagship hosts,” he tweeted.
The Trinity Broadcasting Network must be so proud of the public witness of one of its flagship hosts. https://t.co/ii0z6BURkv
The network did not immediately respond to request for comment on the matter from TheWrap.
For his part, Huckabee — who is known for his off-color dad jokes on Twitter — defended the quip and reminded critics that gang members come in all colors.
“Absurd! To see race in everything IS racist. Nothing about race but about a vile violent criminal gang. Please understand that,” he responded to Washington Post political correspondent Karen Tumulty in a tweet. “MS-13 is not a race but an illegal gang who rapes, murders, and mutilates children as sport.”
Absurd! To see race in everything IS racist. Nothing about race but about a vile violent criminal gang. Please understand that. https://t.co/2ePtyvh7kA
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) June 24, 2018
Yes @ktumulty because MS-13 is not a race but an illegal gang who rapes, murders, and mutilates children as sport. Nancy Pelosi defended them because she said @realDonaldTrump insulted them. Are you defending them too? Wasn’t aware that criminal was a “race.” https://t.co/qjmELJuYAm
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) June 23, 2018
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President Trump recently received a ton of criticism for sending out a pair of tweets about MSNBC's "Morning Joe" hosts “Psycho” Joe Scarborough and “low I.Q. Crazy” Mika Brzezinski.
“She was bleeding badly from a face-lift,” he wrote of an encounter with Brzezinski he claims he had in Florida weeks before his inauguration.
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Deutsch defended Brzezinski on June 30 following Donald Trump’s attacks on her, calling the president “physically disgusting to look at.”
Deutsch continued: “Enough is enough with this disgusting vulgar man and to talk about women that way, and the irony is you physically look like you do, beyond the stupidity of it. You are a pig."
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After Trump staffers praised the president during a cabinet meeting, Scarborough said on June 13 it “was the most sick, shameful, pathetic, un-American, autocratic display.”
He continued: “I will tell you if I were ever in meeting and people did that to me, I would say shut up and I would fire you.”
Brzezinski called President Trump a “narcissist” and said it’s possible that he’s “mentally ill in a way” on June 8.
She continued: “I said it months ago… he’s not well. At the very least he’s not well and he’s so narcissistic that he does not believe the rules apply to him."
“Donald Trump, again, being a schmuck, thinking he can buy people’s integrity by inviting them over to the White House and wowing them,” Scarborough said on June 7 when discussing a dinner party at the White House. “That’s how he thinks. I know that first hand.”
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“If any CEO, in a Fortune 500 company, was behaving this way, he or she would be removed immediately… they would take him out, he would have psychiatric evaluation and he would no longer be the CEO,” Scarborough said on June 6.
Scarborough blasted “President Bannon” on June 2 for the U.S. withdrawal from the Paris Accord on climate change — using the trolling phrase seven times in half a minute.
“Time magazine was right: Steve Bannon is the president of the United States,” the MSNBC host said, before launching into a 30-second monologue referencing “President Bannon” repeatedly.
The morning show played audio of Press Secretary Sean Spicer telling reporters during an off-camera gaggle that Trump’s “covfefe” tweet wasn’t a typo and Americans shouldn’t be concerned.
Brzezinski set up her fiancé, “You said… it’s like a kid pooping their pants and then saying, ‘I meant to do that.”
“Well yes. It would be like somebody pooping their pants and then people looking at it and saying ‘oh that’s modern art don’t you understand,'” Scarborough said on June 1.
Scarborough called Trump a “bumbling dope” on May 11 because of the way a meeting with Russia’s Foreign Minister was handled.
“Looking at the front pages of the newspapers here… The Wall Street Journal also, you look, of course, at pictures. The shameful picture where the United States press corps was kept out but the Russians were allowed in,” Scarborough said while holding up the paper.
Scarborough slammed Trump on March 31, saying that Russians are lucky that POTUS is “stupid enough” to pick up their fake news.
“We’re obsessed on how the Russians have hacked, how the Russians have tried to impact this, how the Russians have tried to impact the White House,” Scarborough said. “We’re really just playing into their hands.”
MSNBC stars Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski attack the president on a daily basis
President Trump recently received a ton of criticism for sending out a pair of tweets about MSNBC's "Morning Joe" hosts “Psycho” Joe Scarborough and “low I.Q. Crazy” Mika Brzezinski.
“She was bleeding badly from a face-lift,” he wrote of an encounter with Brzezinski he claims he had in Florida weeks before his inauguration.