MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough on Tuesday steered Donald Trump, first girl Melania Trump and their MAGA allies are shedding “crocodile tears” over their newest efforts to unseat Jimmy Kimmel from his late night time present.
Kimmel discovered himself taking warmth from the president as soon as once more after a joke he made in regards to the first girl final week — saying she was glowing “like an expectant widow” — was seized upon by the primary couple and fellow conservatives following Saturday’s taking pictures on the White Home Correspondents’ Dinner.
The comic pushed again on the criticism Monday, describing the road as “a really mild roast joke about the truth that he’s virtually 80 and she or he’s youthful than I’m.”
“It was not, by any stretch of the definition, a name to assassination,” Kimmel added.
Scarborough mentioned the backlash from Trump and his allies amounted to “such crocodile tears from individuals who have sat again and mentioned completely nothing” when the president has made extremely divisive remarks about political foes being executed and extra.
“It’s occurred time and time once more. So, once more, crocodile tears there,” he added.
Whereas Scarborough acknowledged he “wouldn’t have mentioned one thing like that about any president,” he argued Kimmel’s joke was clearly in regards to the age hole between Trump and his spouse and never sinister.
“So, once more, the crocodile tears are a bit an excessive amount of,” he mentioned. “Even for these of us who would by no means say one thing like that or need anyone else to make a joke like that. However it was, on the finish of the day, a joke about his age and never violent rhetoric.”
Watch Scarborough’s commentary right here: