Mika Brzezinski Puts Head In Her Hands Over Trump’s Pearl Harbor Comments | EUROtoday

MS NOW host Mika Brzezinski appeared genuinely shocked by President Donald Trump and his newest lapse in decorum. She held her head in seen disbelief Friday earlier than regaining her composure and saying into the “Morning Joe” digital camera, “I’m embarrassed for the country.”

Her co-host, Joe Scarborough, was equally shocked — and even briefly speechless.

The second in query got here Thursday throughout a proper assembly with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi. A Japanese reporter requested Trump why key allies weren’t informed earlier than he launched the Iran struggle.

“Well, one thing, you don’t want to signal too much,” Trump mentioned. “You know, when we go in, we went in very hard and we didn’t tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? OK? Why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?”

Takaichi was born 20 years after Japan bombed the U.S. naval base as a faction of the Axis powers throughout World War II. Trump’s tried use of humor drew scattered laughs across the Oval Office.

“Yeah,” Scarborough mentioned Friday throughout a short lived lack of phrases after taking part in a clip of the alternate. “Yeah, that’s … that’s something you wouldn’t see from any other president because usually presidents are trying to be nice to allies.”

His co-host wanted just a little extra time to course of the second and actually held her head as Scarborough shared his response. When she finally perked up, Brzezinski was unable to explain the alternate with out likening it to the heightened actuality of a sketch present.

“That was like, I mean…,” she mentioned. “Almost felt like I was watching ‘SNL’ or something.”

Trump was torched for his quip by late evening comics and social media critics alike, as his struggle on Iran more and more threatens to jeopardize U.S. relations with allied international locations — and the quip was aimed toward a nation the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on.

Japan has now been a U.S. ally for greater than seven a long time.

Scarborough famous that Trump has been distancing himself from longstanding international relations, nevertheless, beforehand citing his risk to annex NATO ally Greenland and senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller calling for a return to might-makes-right imperialism.

“You know, you almost felt like you were watching a follow-up of him going on and on, insulting France’s leader a month or so earlier,” Scarborough informed Brzezinski on Friday. “So it’s interesting, you know, this is really the time when we want allies on our side.”

He continued, “I’m not talking about that quip just by itself, I’m just saying, you look what’s happened over the last month or two, and this president is doing the exact opposite of what presidents in the past have done, as far as bringing the allies in a little bit closer.”

Brzezinski agreed: “Definitely not normal.”

While her co-host went on to argue American voters “got” what they “asked for,” Brzezinski appeared much less eager on blaming her fellow countrymen. She said merely, “President Trump, uhh … I’m, like, I’m embarrassed with those … I’m embarrassed for the country.”