Joe Scarborough Back On The Trump Train: 'He's Playing A Role'
Joe Scarborough is back on the Trump Train, making excuses for The Donald. Friday's show had Joe insisting that Donald Trump is just "playing a role" as a "loud, screaming, racially insensitive, at times race-baiting buffoon that gets behind microphones at political rallies" because that's not the "Donald that we've known for 20 years."
Humble brag there, you've known the "real Donald" for 20 years.
Transcript via Media Matters:
JOE SCARBOROUGH (HOST): Fake it 'til you make it. Fake it until you make it. And that is a question. I will say, though, one of the great ironies of this campaign, I've said it here on the show every day, is anybody -- and Donny certainly has known Donald for a long time -- anybody that knows Donald knows that that Donald last night was closer to the Donald Trump that we've all known for decades than the character he's playing. Because make no mistake of it, make no mistake of it, this loud, screaming, racially insensitive, at times race-baiting buffoon that gets behind microphones at political rallies, that's Donald Trump playing a role. I just think -- unless the Donald Trump that we've known for 20 years is not the Donald Trump. And so I'm saying --
KATTY KAY: It's also the Donald Trump that came up with the Muslim ban and the Mexicans being rapists and things that he's said about women. Those are his statements, he owns them.