‘Morning Joe’ Jealous: Jokes ‘Fox & Friends’ Has Trump ‘Bathroom Cam’

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” panel attempted to ridicule President Donald Trump Monday for participating in an interview with rival morning show “Fox & Friends.” The Fox News interview with the president aired Sunday.

Trump has given several interviews to the Fox News morning show since his inauguration and even praised the program on his Twitter feed. “Morning Joe,” however, has yet to land a Trump appearance since the inauguration.

“Again, again, and that of course is shot from the ‘Fox & Friends’ bathroom cam. [Trump’s] on there so much,” Scarborough said. “He’s on there like nonstop. They’ve got a different camera in it every room. They just press it and say, ‘Hey, can you talk?'”

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MSNBC political analyst Elise Jordan chimed in at that point, saying, “It’s a good strategy, though.”

“This press strategy of putting him in front of such a sycophant and letting him just keep talking and digging deeper and deeper and deeper — this is more harmful than if he actually sat down and had a legitimate interview,” Jordan said.

Trump has angered many of mainstream media outlets for favoring Fox News — even though he has granted major interviews to several outlets. But the president has also railed against the “fake news media,” the “failing New York Times,” and more, for coverage he deems to be uniformly biased against him.

The “Morning Joe” panel spent a good portion of Monday ridiculing the president’s interview on “Fox & Friends,” including making a “Star Wars” movie-saga reference to the back-and-forth between former President Barack Obama and his successor over the “mean” GOP Senate health care bill released Thursday. On “Fox & Friends,” Trump claimed that Obama stole the word “mean” from him and twisted it when the former president released a statement bashing the bill.

“[Jabba] the Hutt was impervious to Jedi mind tricks, but not this Trump fellow.”

The president also tweeted over the weekend about Russian meddling in the 2016 elections and how Obama “did nothing about it.” The “Morning Joe” panel made a big deal about that, since Trump has avoided addressing the topic while claiming that the Left and the mainstream media have twisted the meddling narrative to delegitimize his victory.

“We have Star Wars fans here? Anybody Star Wars fans? You didn’t know exactly where Barack Obama went, but if you saw [Episode] 7, he obviously went to the island where Luke [Skywalker] went,” Scarborough said. “And he has come back. He has extraordinary Jedi mind tricks because everybody — the 17 intel agencies — everybody’s been trying to get him to admit — every reporter in Washington — that the Russians meddled with our elections.”

“And Barack Obama comes back and says, ‘The Russians meddled with our elections,'” Scarborough said while waving his hand in an imitation of the Jedi mind trick. “And [Trump] writes a tweet, ‘The Russians meddled with our elections.’ And [Obama] says, ‘Your health care plan is mean.’ And [Trump] goes, ‘My health care plan is mean.’ It is unbelievable.”

The panel continued to joke about the Obama — “President, he was” — and the Jedi mind trick analogy, saying, “The force is strong within him,” and “The force is strong with this one.”

Scarborough even offered up an imitation of Jedi master Yoda, who speaks with odd sentence structures in a garbled-sounding voice.

“Mmmm, Obama. Strong the force is with his family,” Scarborough mocked in his Yoda voice.

“And so all Barack Obama has to do is just come back on the scene in his Jedi garb, right?” Scarborough added in his normal voice. “That is an amazing power. He can use it for good or for evil.”

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Jordan chimed in again, adding, “He just forces the president to say things about this health care bill that really could hurt it politically. Really hamper its passage. That’s something that [former] President Obama really has power.”

Scarborough agreed, adding that Trump’s back-and-forth with Obama over health care could have hurt the GOP as it tries to push its unpopular partial repeal of Obamacare to a Senate vote this week.

“Republican senators and House members fighting for their political lives, trying to figure out what to do, and just because Donald Trump is so, so crazy and jealous of Barack Obama, he gets him to admit it was ‘mean,'” Scarborough said.

The “Morning Joe” panel also ridiculed Trump’s intelligence, noting that “the force” doesn’t usually work against more “intelligent” individuals.

“[Jabba] the Hutt was impervious to Jedi mind tricks, but not this Trump fellow,” Scarborough said.