‘Morning Joe’: Trump Is ‘Aspirational’; Supporters ‘Believe’ They Can Actually ‘Be Like Him’

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SCARBOROUGH: “...pharma companies, that’s not Republican, same thing on trade deals.”
JANSING: “That’s Bernie Sanders’ line.
SCARBOROUGH: “That’s not traditionally Republican. These Republicans here have never heard a Republican candidate espouse such views and live to tell it.”
BRZEZINSKI: “I think it’s more basic in some ways, too, he’s just aspirational. Name one candidate on both sides of the aisle that you want to be like.”
BARNICLE: “The aspirational society. That aspect of —“
BRZEZINSKI: “I don’t, but I’m talking about Trump’s —“
SCARBOROUGH: “There are a lot of people that I admire.”
BRZEZINSKI: “That’s fine, you can admire. I admire every candidate running for president for what they’re doing.”
SCARBOROUGH: “You said aspirational, Marco Rubio — I think Marco Rubio has one of the great aspirational stories.”
BRZEZINSKI: “That’s not it. You can have an aspirational story but you do not have an aspirational vibe and aura and also a company called trump: People are — the trump supporters believe that they can actually maybe be like him: Your cab driver! Come on, you know what I’m talking about.”
SCARBOROUGH: “This is an interesting story. Phil griffin came and told me a story yesterday about a guy that was driving him around that was talking about trump and he was a recent immigrant to the country. He goes, I don’t get it, immigrants driving me around are excited about trump. When I first came to New York in 2003, I was being driven around by a cab driver and I said “How are you doing?” We were talking back and forth. He said “I’m doing fine, I’m driving a cab now, but I’m going to work around the clock, I’m going to buy a car and I’m going to start my own business then I’m going to buy two cars, then I’m going to buy 10 cars and then I’m going to be like Trump.” And I just kind of laughed.
BRZEZINSKI: “No one is saying ‘I’m going to be like Rubio.’” (Laughter) 
SCARBOROUGH: “But they were there because their family was like Rubio’s family and came to this country but they — they look at — for a long time have looked at trump as being inspirational. Whether people love him or hate him, I’m sorry, that’s the reality.”
BARNICLE: “Part of the appeal, you’ve seen it, you stand in the crowd at a trump rally, and I’ve been to six of them now. Stand in the crowd and look around and you see people looking at him and listening to him and they know a couple of things anecdotally about him. He came into their state, new Hampshire or here in south Carolina on a big plate with his name emblazoned. He’s got a beautiful wife standing next to him. He talks about the billions he’s made and they look at him the same way they look at the Powerball ticket they buy on Saturday.” (Laughter)
BRZEZINSKI: “You got it.”
BARNICLE: “He is their ticket to a larger, better life.”
JANSING: “But I think to Mika’s point, the one poll we haven’t talked about that maybe explains Donald Trump better than anything happened a couple years ago and it was the first time since we did not earn polling that the American people didn’t believe that their children would be better off —“
BRZEZINSKI: “Exactly.”
JANSING: “— than they were.”
BRZEZINSKI: “Exactly.”
SCARBOROUGH: “It’s very interesting. At the Trump rally we went to in New Hampshire I saw something I haven’t seen in political rallies, either. Trump was talking but all Mika and I were doing —
BRZEZINSKI: “I was transfixed by the audience.”
BARNICLE: “At the Verizon Center.” 
SCARBOROUGH: “And I saw something that reminded me — I hate to go back to these memories, reminded me of when I was very young in Meridian, Mississippi, we lived way out in the country. We would play basketball, you can make fun of me for the rest of my life but on packed dirt ground. These packed dirt, put two goals up and it was really rural and there was a kid in the middle of the day, middle of our game that said he had to go. He ran home, real working class, rural Mississippi person, they didn’t have a lot of money and I saw him five minutes later come out of his trailer and he had a code on. Didn’t fit him, it was a shabby coat, I said ‘What’s going on?’ He said ‘My momma said Harry Truman just died. Mama says we have to remember Harry Truman.’ And I always thought that was something from a bygone era when we were looking up in the stands in New Hampshire I saw a lot of working class guys that had just gotten off of work and you could tell, they put on ill-fitting jackets they probably hadn’t worn in 20 years, since their wedding and they were sitting up there in those stands and I think they were waiting it because, like you said it was aspirational.”
BARNICLE: “Take me with you.”