Morning Joe Mocks Trump For Helping Hurricane Harvey Victims

[DonViejo]

by Jon Levine | 7:30 am, September 5th, 2017

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Though Trump was largely on top of the catastrophe, regularly tweeting updates and even personally pitching in, in affected areas, it wasn’t enough for Scarborough and his friends.

On set, they mocked Trump’s efforts to lend a hand as insufficient, citing this Tweet on air. The video shows Trump innocuously loading supplies into a truck.

Link to tweet

The specific issue which Morning Joe took exception to appears to have been Trump’s decision to hand something to the truck driver through the front window rather than lay it on the flatbed.

“Here’s your bag of cement,” said Scarborough doing an intentional “dumb-person voice.”

There was laughter.

“That’s why you call it a truck,” he added.

More laugher — then they played the video.

“Ok. Bucket?” said Mika.

Then there was laughter, and more inaudible “dumb person noises.”

When Trump finally ended up putting the supplies on the truck flatbed, somebody clapped derisively off camera.

More laughing.

“I bet they’re not breaking this down on Fox & Friends,” said Scarborough.

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https://www.mediaite.com/online/morning-joe-mocks-trump-for-helping-hurricane-harvey-victims/

[Ilsa]

1. I saw that at 6am. Hilarious mocking of

the idiot making his PR video. He was handing a tall white American Red Cross supplies plastic container to the pickup truck driver, as if he either needed it immediately, or expected him to drive with it in his lap. Of course he had to talk to the driver to make sure that man knew who was loading his truck so he could tell his friends.

It was such a show piece, but trump wasn't going to play the role correctly, even if he actually knew what to do.

[HipChick]

2. I wondered why dumbass put that in front window, rather than big old flat bed

[smirkymonkey]

5. Probably because he's a dumbass.

[tblue37]

3. Notice at about 13 sec in, after Trump turns away from the truck, the real worker points to the

truck bed to show him where the supplies are supposed to be loaded. I could just see him continuing to shove boxes through the driver's window if the real worker didn't show him where to put them in the truck bed.

Also, notice how he dumps the last box in at an angle, not even flat, and even when he tries to adjust it later, he still doesn't get it right.

What an incompetent yahoo.

[cyclonefence]

4. I marvel at the wasted motion

Two or three perfectly healthy-looking youngish men walk right up to the truck and hand stuff to the president*, who takes the items and either shoves them into the driver's window or haphazardly places them in the bed of the truck. It's so clearly a photo op, and so clearly a fail. And are emergency workers in TX really driving around with three or four items when they have room in the truck for so many more?

Further, the two hits on the truck's side is what rich people do to signal to their driver that they're in the car and ready to go. I know this from watching movies about rich people, and it's offensive even cinematically.

[HipChick]

6. Should not be so hard on him...he did newspaper rounds from his fathers limo..

no reason to believe that Richy Rich donnie would know his way around a truck

[left-of-center2012]

7. Trump's so proud of himself