‘Morning Joe’ Takes Fifth Stab at Diagnosing Trump’s ‘State of Mind’

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough appeared on Wednesday to forget his long history of diagnosing and commenting on President Donald Trump’s mental health.

“Far be it from me to speculate on the president’s state of mind,” Scarborough said while discussing President Donald Trump’s view of alleged Russian election interference.

While discussing Trump’s upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin later this week at a G-20 summit in Poland, Scarborough and Brzezinski spent a chunk of airtime wondering whether Trump will be “obsequious to Vladimir Putin” in a way that “actually undercuts his authority as a president to do so many things.”

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“But instead, there is what — is it ego? Is it a fear of people thinking his [inaugural] crowd size isn’t big enough? I don’t know,” co-host Mika Brzezinski began as she attempted to discern why Trump avoids frequently discussing Russia and the U.S. presidential election interference.

Scarborough chimed in, saying, “Well, far be it from me to speculate on the president’s state of mind. But, I — I just do think that he is from the very beginning — I’ll say it again … from the very beginning, he’s always thought if you discuss Russia and discuss what happened during the election, that that somehow is casting a shadow on the validity of his election. It’s not.”

Although Scarborough claimed he didn’t want to “speculate on the president’s state of mind,” the “Morning Joe” co-host has shown no such compunction about diagnosing Trump’s mental health in earlier shows.

In early May, Scarborough and Brzezinski suggested Trump was suffering from dementia after the president gave an interview with the Washington Examiner in which he discussed how populist President Andrew Jackson wouldn’t have allowed the Civil War to take place had he not died 16 years before the war began.

“Presidential historian Doug Brinkley … described the President’s confused mental state,” Scarborough said. “My mother’s had dementia for 10 years … That sounds like the sort of thing my mother would say today … It’s beyond the realm.”

“You know, perhaps it’s exhaustion. Perhaps it’s the weight of the job, the pressure of the job,” Scarborough added. “Perhaps it’s anxiety. Perhaps he’s exhausted … Maybe he’s not sleeping at all. We’ve heard that he’s having trouble sleeping. We don’t know what it is.”

“We’re not analyzing anything,” Scarborough continued.

Brzezinski chimed in, saying, “Not diagnosing. We’re analyzing, that’s for sure,” to which Scarborough replied, “We’re not diagnosing anything, but there is no doubt that there is something impacting his thought process. Perhaps it is exhaustion.”

Scarborough and Brzezinski continued their diagnostic psychoanalysis several days later.

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“This presidency — you can argue that this president is completely incompetent, maybe even has some issues medically,” Brzezinski said. “Who knows? This presidency cannot afford anybody weak around him … We’re becoming desensitized to just how bad this is.”

On June 6, Scarborough warned that Trump “is not a sane, rational human being” while claiming that “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.”

In mid-June, Brzezinski blasted White House staff and advisers for allowing Trump to become “delusional about his accomplishments” as president. On June 8, Brzezinski bemoaned how Trump is a “narcissist” who is “mentally ill in a way.”