Reacting to Donald Trump falling back on his old habit of going on Truth Social in the middle of the night to threaten and rant, the entire panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" claimed he is doing nothing but making his job with a slim-margin GOP majority Congress even more difficult.
At approximately 2:20 AM ET on Wednesday, the president-elect was on his social media platform taunting ex-Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), which led co-host Joe Scarborough to state he is only making her more powerful and putting Republican lawmakers in a bad place.
"I will say even inside the people close to Donald Trump, they have been saying for weeks now, no retribution. He's not going to do retribution, we don't have time for retribution," he began. "This sort of talk early on, it's bad for everybody. It's bad for the House Republicans and it's bad for Donald Trump."
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"You put Liz Cheney out there, or you even talk about it, and you put out these stupid reports that this House subcommittee has put out, you are making her a martyr, you are making her bigger, you are making her more powerful. You are making her everything," he added.
Co-host Jonathan Lemire chimed in with, "In one of Trump's Truth Social posts he claimed he had the largest mandate in 129 years –– that's obviously not true at all."
"They're going to need Democrats' help," he added. "This is not the way to get it and we're seeing here a familiar dynamic that we saw the first Trump administration as well. Where his team will put together a plan, even occasionally trying to work across the aisle and work on immigration and try to get a deal done, and Trump himself gives into his worst impulses, of division or revenge or whatever it might be and blows it up himself with some sort of tweet or Truth Social post or other irrational action."
"We're seeing that already now," he continued. "He is going to come, he doesn't have a 129-year mandate, but he's got a unified Washington and there is an ability to get some things done that he wants at the beginning of his term. It is not going to happen if the focus is on retribution, if the focus is revenge on political enemies, which certainly would alienate Democrats and make them not incentivize to help him at all."
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