MSNBC’s "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough suggested President Donald Trump “take a rest” and let Vice President Mike Pence take over running the country for the next couple of weeks.
“Mr. President, you are getting worse every day,” he said, after calling Trump “not well.”
Scarborough’s comments came after the president tweeted Monday morning that the network’s parent company Comcast should look into a “cold case” involving the death of an intern that worked for Scarborough when he was in politics in 2001.
Scarborough accused the president of hurting the parents of his former staffer by bringing the topic up. An autopsy indicated the intern collapsed due to an undiagnosed heart condition and suffered a fatal blow to the head as she fell.
“You actually tweeted something extraordinarily cruel,” Scarborough said. “I know you meant to be extraordinarily cruel to me by attacking me, by bringing up a conspiracy theory that has lived in the gutters of the internet for some time now. But just like the Seth Rich conspiracy murder that was pushed by your allies, you don’t understand the pain you cause to families who have already lost a loved one. Not me, not my children, not anybody that knows me or — they know the truth. You, once again, drag a family through this and make them relive it again, just like Seth Rich’s parents, as if losing a loved one the first time isn’t enough.”
Scarborough then ripped other tweets Trump sent out over the weekend.
“You were supposed to have a working weekend,” Scarborough said. “You got it wrong again. You said 50,000, 60,000, now you said 100,000 deaths. What did you do during your working weekend? You tweeted more hateful things about colleagues of ours, you tweeted conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein. Really, you have time for this? You tweeted conspiracy theories about Barack Obama. Really, you have time for this? You attacked George W. Bush for simply sending out a unifying message to give Americans hope. He said positive things about Americans, he said positive things about health care workers, he said positive things about this country. He said, ‘We choose to rise’ — even that offended you."
He then asked the president to “get checked out” and “take a rest.”
“I ask that you take care of yourself, maybe let Mike Pence run things for the next week,” he said. “You’re not well. Come back when you’re feeling a little better and when you can really actually focus on your job. You just can’t do that right now. Americans are dying every day because of it.”
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