Joe Scarborough’s Take On Trump’s Weekend Speech Is Too Terrifying To Imagine

“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough’s analysis of Donald Trump’s weekend speech turned downright dark on Monday. (Watch the video below.)

Scarborough said the words of Trump, running mate JD Vance and Trump family members in Butler, Pennsylvania, signaled that the “increasingly desperate” Republican nominee was “preparing for civil war.”

Scarborough played snippets of their addresses, led by Trump’s assertions that political opponents have sought to stop him from a second term by any means necessary. “Maybe even” by assassination attempts. He boasted that Russia and China are outside enemies that can be handled by a “smart” president like him, but that the left is “much more dangerous” as the enemy within.

Vance said those against Trump were trying to bankrupt and jail him, and it “was only a matter of time before somebody tried to kill him.” Donald’s son Eric Trump echoed distortions about the FEMA response to Hurricane Helene and Eric’s wife, Lara Trump, described the election as more than Republicans vs. Democrats: “good vs. evil, and good is going to win this battle.”

Scarborough sounded the alarm.

“The level of un-American activity that you just saw is stunning,” the MSNBC personality said. “That is un-American. They know they’re lying. Donald Trump knows that’s a lie. He will tell you that the Secret Service, he thought, did the best job they could do. The fact that JD Vance and Trump’s family would out and out say what they said takes the threat of violence, takes the threat beyond where it was even leading up to January the 6th. This is an increasingly desperate person, an increasingly desperate family, who is preparing for civil war. They just are.”