Scarborough: ‘Why Has the President Become Even More Imbalanced and Unmoored?’

‘I know it’s impossible to explain the way Donald Trump’s mind works’

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SCARBOROUGH: "Bob Costa, last hour we were talking about some of — well, let’s just say some of the President’s more troubling behavior over the past five days. We’re seeing time and again op-ed writers talking about how it’s getting worse. I just jotted down, this is just since the end of last week, reports came out that the President was going to buy Greenland, the President denied that, and then of course admitted to it. Then he cancelled a summit with a NATO ally because they wouldn’t be bullied into selling Greenland. He called the Fed chairman an enemy of the United States for stating policy that has been Republican policy for a generation or since Herbert Hoover. He called the president of China an enemy of the United States. He then ordered all American businesses out of China immediately. And then he backed down the next day, said he had second thoughts about his tariffs. Then doubled down, saying that he actually wanted higher tariffs. Then he said — he cited the legal authority that he had to order U.S. businesses to come out of China. Then 'The Washington Post' reported, and other news outlets have verified, that he ordered aides to seize property along the border as quickly as possible and they could break the law. And if they broke the law, then the president would pardon them. And of course, there are — there’s, of course, him mocking and ridiculing the people of Puerto Rico as hurricane Dorian was bearing down on them. Can you provide us some context? I know it’s impossible to explain the way Donald Trump’s mind works, but can you provide us some context for the past five, six days? Why has the President become even more imbalanced and unmoored?"

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