MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough got here out swinging in opposition to MAGA Wednesday morning, castigating the Trump administration for its “lies” and taking pleasure in its immigration enforcement “cruelty.” The Morning Joe co-host then lashed out on the President’s supporters for, apparently, not taking the teachings of Jesus to coronary heart.
The morning program spent a while on a spat between the White Home and pop artist Sabrina Carpenter, who rebuked the administration for utilizing certainly one of her songs in an immigration video. Co-host Mika Brzezinski began to learn by means of the White Home’s response when Scarborough bought fed up and interrupted her:
BRZEZINSKI: White Home spokesperson Abigail Jackson responded with an announcement referencing Carter’s [sic] lyrics, writing, “Here is a Brief ‘n Candy message for Sabrina Carpenter: we can’t apologize for deporting harmful felony unlawful” —
SCARBOROUGH: You already know, I’m simply — I am uninterested in the lies —
[Crosstalk]
BRZEZINSKI: — “murderers, rapists, and pedophiles from our nation.”
SCARBOROUGH: Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. We’re not gonna learn the lies.
Oof. Wasn’t even keen to take heed to each side of the story.
Apparently, Brzezinski returned the favor by interrupting Scarborough proper earlier than he stated… one thing:
SCARBOROUGH: You already know, there — they’re getting college students, and Jacob —
BRZEZINSKI: Uppp!
SCARBOROUGH: Am I not imagined to say this simply but?
BRZEZINSKI: Effectively, simply cling on, okay?
It’s not clear who precisely Scarborough was about to name-drop, nevertheless it might’ve been MS NOW political and nationwide correspondent Jacob Soboroff, who has been masking immigration for the community. Maybe Scarborough almost leaked an enormous scoop that was nonetheless below wraps!
Scarborough went on to accuse Trump administration of truly having fun with violent raids:
“It is savage. The savagery, the cruelty. And it is one thing they have a good time. They love this. They assume, contained in the White Home, they — I imply, Donald Trump has stated earlier than he does not need to see moms ripped from the arms of kids, however that is precisely what they’re doing tenfold in comparison with the primary time period.”
Co-host Jonathan Lemire concurred with the characterization, “… you are proper, it is trolling. It’s authorities by trolling. The thought of placing out these slick movies they know are going to get a response, which can be reveling within the cruelty of the second.”
Not an excessive amount of later, after making an homage to the “terribly heroic” Pope (very briefly this time), Scarborough made his pastoral debut lecturing the American public on how one can deal with foreigners: “And once more, you simply cannot preserve going again to the story of the Good Samaritan sufficient, the place Jesus says, ‘Love your neighbor as your self.’ They ask, ‘Who’s my neighbor?’ And he picks probably the most despised foreigner, probably the most despised foreigner, the Samaritan to say, ‘That is your neighbor, and that is who you’re keen on, and that is who’s — who shall be first within the Kingdom of God.’”
In some other context, one may assume Scarborough had been ordained and commissioned to manage some conviction in hearts and minds. Alas, what we bought was, frankly, uncouth:
As a result of make no mistake, learn the Bible. Learn Jesus’s phrases. Do not go to Leviticus. Learn Jesus’s phrases. Do not go to Nahum. Learn Jesus’s phrase. Do not return to Exodus. Learn Jesus’s phrases and it couldn’t be any extra clear. These individuals who proceed to help these insurance policies are actually doing the alternative of what Jesus Christ stated in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
Wooaahhhh, settle down, buddy. What about all of the crime, fraud, waste and abuse incurred by Biden’s mass-immigration coverage? Ignoring that wouldn’t be loving your home neighbor. Weren’t you imagined to be “fairly conservative” on the border?
The transcript is beneath. Click on “broaden” learn:
MS NOW’s Morning Joe
December 3, 2025
6:47:12 a.m. EST
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Effectively, first it was Taylor, —
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Yeah.
BRZEZINSKI: — and now it is Sabrina. Sabrina Carpenter, the singer changing into the newest pop celebrity to get right into a feud with the Trump White Home. The combat started with Carpenter slamming the administration for utilizing certainly one of her songs in a video applauding ICE raids.
SCARBOROUGH: That is in all probability not —
BRZEZINSKI: I would not need that.
SCARBOROUGH: — good branding. Yeah.
BRZEZINSKI: The clip posted by the official White Home X account, Twitter account, reveals a video montage of ICE officers chasing and handcuffing folks to a remix of Carpenter’s tune, “Juno.” The submit consists of textual content studying, “Bye-bye,” with a coronary heart eyes emoji.
That is so sick.
SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, the cruelty is basically —
BRZEZINSKI: I’m sorry.
SCARBOROUGH: — is staggering.
BRZEZINSKI: That is so sick.
The singer responded with a video — a submit of her personal, writing, “this video is evil and disgusting. Don’t ever contain me or my music to learn your inhumane agenda.”
White Home spokesperson Abigail Jackson responded with an announcement referencing Carter’s [sic] lyrics, writing, “Here is a Brief ‘n Candy message for Sabrina Carpenter: we can’t apologize for deporting harmful felony unlawful” —
SCARBOROUGH: You already know, I’m simply — I am uninterested in the lies —
[Crosstalk]
BRZEZINSKI: — “murderers, rapists, and pedophiles from our nation.”
SCARBOROUGH: Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. We’re not gonna learn the lies. You already know, there — they’re getting college students, and Jacob —
BRZEZINSKI: Uppp!
SCARBOROUGH: Am I not imagined to say this simply but?
BRZEZINSKI: Effectively, simply cling on, okay?
SCARBOROUGH: They’re — ICE is getting harmless folks which can be going to see their household. They’re busting down, like, kindergartens and pulling out kindergarten lecturers. They’re throwing moms to the bottom. It is savage. The savagery, the cruelty. And it is one thing they have a good time. They love this. They assume, contained in the White Home, they — I imply, Donald Trump has stated earlier than he does not need to see moms ripped from the arms of kids, however that is precisely —
BRZEZINSKI: That’s been —
SCARBOROUGH: — what they’re doing tenfold in comparison with the primary time period. It is why he is the other way up on immigration, a problem that must be his strongest as a result of the southern border is shut down.
JONATHAN LEMIRE: Yeah. And as a lot as Trump has stated he does not need that, however on the similar time, he sat down with 60 Minutes a month in the past and was advised — he was requested about immigration and his sinking ballot numbers, saying, “Effectively, we’ve to go more durable. We’ve to go more durable with the deportation,” doubling down on this.
However you are proper, it is trolling. It’s authorities by trolling. The thought of placing out these slick movies they know are going to get a response, which can be reveling within the cruelty of the second. And never simply Sabrina Carpenter, however loads of Individuals have stated, “We don’t need this. This isn’t what we wish. We’re disgusted by this.”
(…)
6:51:39 a.m. EST
SCARBOROUGH: David, one church establishment that is displaying compassion is the Catholic Church. The Pope has been terribly heroic and — effectively, in doing his job. I imply, he is quoting Jesus. He is quoting the obvious elements of the crimson letters.
Which, in fact results in the query, how achieve this many people who find themselves — who grew up in our church buildings, who grew up as Baptists like me throughout the deep south, how are so many individuals turning a blind eye not solely to the savagery right here, but in addition to a President they voted for twice calling God’s youngsters — let’s make no mistake of this, Jesus was very clear. We’re all God’s youngsters. And in reality, when he talks in regards to the final being first and the primary being final, effectively, you could possibly in all probability put billionaire leaders on one aspect of that and Somali immigrants on the opposite.
When he calls Somalis, quote, “human rubbish,” that’s one thing — once more, for individuals who did not develop up within the Baptist church, who did not develop up studying the crimson letters, did not develop up within the Gospels, did not develop up such as you and me, you understand, studying about this in, you understand, Sunday college and coaching union. I imply, the factor is, once you get into the Gospels, they don’t seem to be so many guidelines, folks like to speak about guidelines, the commandment is, simply time and time once more, blessed are the merciful for they shall be proven mercy. Like, what you do to the least of those amongst me, you do to me, myself.
And once more, you simply cannot preserve going again to the story of the Good Samaritan sufficient, the place Jesus says, “Love your neighbor as your self.” They ask, “Who’s my neighbor?” And he picks probably the most despised foreigner, probably the most despised foreigner, the Samaritan to say, “That is your neighbor, and that is who you’re keen on, and that is who’s — who shall be first within the Kingdom of God.”
So once more, a really lengthy windup to ask this query. How have these folks been so programed to overlook each single factor they had been taught in church, in Sunday college, in coaching union on Wednesday night time Bible research, like, how have they been so programed that they utterly put this political, I do not even know what to name it, over the teachings of Jesus Christ?
As a result of make no mistake, learn the Bible. Learn Jesus’s phrases. Do not go to Leviticus. Learn Jesus’s phrases. Do not go to Nahum. Learn Jesus’s phrase. Do not return to Exodus. Learn Jesus’s phrases and it couldn’t be any extra clear. These individuals who proceed to help these insurance policies are actually doing the alternative of what Jesus Christ stated in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
