‘Morning Joe’ Questions Trump’s Patriotism, Christianity

President Trump, who ran on a campaign of "making America great again" and "America first," may not actually love America, MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski said Tuesday. 

Brzezinski's co-host and fiancé, Joe Scarborough, meanwhile, suggested Trump might not actually be Christian. 

After Brzezinski teased an upcoming segment on Trump's meeting with the Pope, she said they would discuss what drove the two apart during his campaign. In a hot mic, Scarborough can be heard replying, "the Pope is Christian," implying Trump is not.

"I know it is a terrible thing to question someone’s patriotism," Brzezinski said earlier in the show, "but you wonder what he cares about. You really do. I do. And I think there are others who are wondering what is driving him."

The comments came during a wide-ranging conversation of Trump's proposed budget and his trip abroad.

Here's a transcript:

BRZEZINSKI: “I think also often we’re talking about the people around Donald Trump when ultimately you know where it ends. It starts and ends with Donald Trump. And I know it is a terrible thing to question someone’s patriotism, but you wonder what he cares about. You really do. I do. And I think there are others who are wondering what is driving him.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Well Donald Trump cares about — he’s made it perfectly obvious, and I think a lot of people that have known him in the past knew he was — he was self-involved, but to the degree that he cares only about himself.”
BRZEZINSKI: “I don’t think anyone could predict that. Yeah.”
SCARBOROUGH: “To the degree he cares only about himself above his country, above — it has been pretty surprising. Somebody yesterday asked the question, I don’t get this, why is he — why is he cozying up to a thug and tyrant in the Philippines?”
BRZEZINSKI: “Yeah.”
SCARBOROUGH: “And he said, he doesn’t even know about North Korea. And I responded, that’s not about North Korea, it’s about Trump Tower in Manila.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Right.”
SCARBOROUGH: “Everything they do, he’s cozying up to a Turkish leader that came over here, had a security detail, beat up people —“
BRZEZINSKI: “Right.”
SCARBOROUGH: “— American citizens, and didn’t say a word because he’s got Trump Tower in — in Istanbul.”