Morning Joe Hosts Slam Trump’s 2016 Phone-Number Funeral Anecdote for Lindsey Graham
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Updated · HuffPost · Jul 29
Morning Joe Hosts Slam Trump’s 2016 Phone-Number Funeral Anecdote for Lindsey Graham
1 articles · Updated · HuffPost · Jul 29
Summary
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” reacted with disbelief to Donald Trump’s funeral remarks for Sen. Lindsey Graham, with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski openly wincing at clips from the eulogy.
Two moments drove the response: Trump said “virtually everyone” liked Graham before undercutting it with “well, not everybody,” then revisited how he publicized Graham’s personal cellphone number during the 2016 campaign.
Trump framed that episode as “the beginning of a friendship,” joking that Graham “did not stop calling me for the next 10 years” and adding, “It was not easy.”
Brzezinski responded, “Oh my God” and asked, “Is this a eulogy at a funeral?” while Scarborough tried to find something “moving and complimentary” in the speech before abandoning the effort.