Raw Story: Watch: MSNBC's Michael Steele blows up on Joe Scarborough over being civil with Trump

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Raw Story - Watch: MSNBC's Michael Steele blows up on Joe Scarborough over being civil with Trump

Tom Boggioni
January 10, 2025 8:59AM ET

In a rare combative moment on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Michael Steele battled with co-host Joe Scarborough over the effectiveness of being "civil" with Donald Trump with the two talking over each other as the rest of the panel held their tongues.

With the conversation turning to Trump's interactions with former President Barack Obama at Thursday's Jimmy Carter funeral service, Scarborough maintained that it is important to keep the lines of communication open with the president-elect –– likely in reference to his own controversial meeting, along with wife and co-host Mika Brzezinski, with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

That set off a dispute with Steele, the co-host on MSNBC's "The Weekend" where Scarborough kept talking over his guest who wasn't having it.

"Joe, you had your moment, let me just finish my point," Steele admonished Scarborough. "I get that, but I'm telling you something you seem to forget –– so, let me make my point, you may not like it but I'm going to make it and the reality of it is, I take your civility argument, you like to say 78 million people voted for Donald Trump, well 82 million people voted for Joe Biden and he didn't get that civility that you're talking about from Donald Trump in those four years."

"So now the expectation is, because he has won again and he's got 78 million people, we all have to be civil to Donald Trump, well okay, I'm prepared to be civil ––." he added only to have Scarborough to interrupt him with, "Nobody said that."

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Good for Michael!

[Omnipresent]

1. Micheal has a backbone and Joe has no clue about fairness, with no memory of how things were for Biden.

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Shame on Joe for not recognizing that difference!

[joshdawg]

2. I gotta go with Steele on this one.

Why in the hell would anyone want to be civil to trump? He's not civil to anyone except the one he sees in the mirror.
He denigrates everyone who has the unfortunate experience of being around him.
He is definitely a sociopath who cares for no one, NO ONE, except himself.
Calling him an asshole is insulting to other assholes.................like me.

[aka-chmeee]

5. Me too.

The only fault I see in Steele's statement was that he didn't include the rest of the TSF party, corporate media and the others who are up TSF's ass as showing the President no civility.

[hlthe2b]

3. I heard that on tuneIn radio walking the dog pre-dawn this morning! OMG. I almost stopped to applaud

(enthusiastically) Michael Steele. Gawd, what an insufferable lying POS Scarborough was this morning. And after that, he constantly calls back to his old RW memes that leaders of blue states can't possibly be competent (no mention of the RW denial and failure to address climate change, mind you)--constantly comparing the post-Katrina failure of the New Orleans levees (which were built, directed, designed, and overseen by Army Corps of Engineers, I might remind HIM) to the failure to anticipate record hurricane wind gust/crosswinds on top of Santa Anna blowing a single ember miles to start multiple record URBAN fires within and surrounding LA. It was a proxy for Trump throughout but Steele was NOT having it in the earlier segment. No way.

[Firestorm49]

4. I haven't watched any MSNBC since democracy's "D Day." I especially won't since Scarborough and Scarborough

went to Man-A-Lago. All I can do now is hope for the best and do my part to resist convicted felon’s drive to fascism.

[Intractable]

6. Once again, Scarborough shows his need to be right, even when incorrect.

Check out Mika's body language when Joe is speaking at the beginning of the video.

When they talk about taking MSNBC off the air, I don't care if morning MSNBC disappears.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. I have NOT watched Morning Joe since their trip to Florida to kiss trump's ass