MSNBC panelists couldn't help but chuckle Monday afternoon after The Bulwark's Charlie Sykes identified former President Donald Trump as being in the "fat Elvis stage of his career."
Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) praised Sykes's comment on Monday morning, which started the network off.
"I've got to give a shout-out to my friend Charlie Sykes," McCaskill said at the top of Nicolle Wallace's show. "I spit coffee over the weekend when I saw how he referred to Trump, that Trump is in the fat Elvis stage of his career."
"I feel like that's mean to Elvis!" shouted Wallace.
"I mean, I love that. I love that," McCaskill continued. "And, by the way, fat Elvis is worried, and so is the weirdo he picked as his running mate."
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McCaskill pointed out that the Democratic field "is pretty damn good," and Vice President Kamala Harris doesn't have any bad choices.
Sykes explained that the rally over the weekend was revealing.
"We can talk about, you know, what his strategy was and what he intended to do, but I also think, you know, the other thing was the complete lack of impulse control," explained Sykes Monday morning. "You know, as Mike Barnicle says, this is a deeply damaged man who is really sort of, you know, once again in the fat Elvis stage of his career. I thought it was very revealing that ... he's going back to when he came down the golden elevator back in 2015."
Sykes was referencing the initial Trump announcement when he returned to his conspiracy that Barack Obama was not a real citizen.
"This man is relitigating his original playbook because that's what he's got. I think that's what my takeaway from all of this was. He keeps going back to things that he thinks work," said Sykes about Trump turning birtherism into anti-Harris racism.
On Monday afternoon, Sykes explained that one of the more interesting things unfolding in the GOP is that it has been "purging its bench." He noted there have been many good candidates over the years but that they've been shoved out after clashing with Trump.
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