MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough on Tuesday compared President Trump calling former White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman a “dog” to Nazis referring to “Jews as rats.” “We’ve…
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough on Tuesday compared President Trump calling former White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman a “dog” to Nazis referring to “Jews as rats.”
“We’ve heard it said before and we’ve heard it discussed before about how tyrants and autocrats and, yes, fascists, communists, others used the language of dehumanization to justify, well, a movement away from democracy and a movement away from decent standards,” Scarborough said on “Morning Joe.
“During the Holocaust, Nazis referred to Jews as rats,” the co-host continued. “In Rwanda genocide was often justified, calling them cockroaches, slave owners considered slaves subhuman animals.”
Trump called Manigault-Newman a “crazed, crying lowlife” in a tweet earlier Tuesday morning to his 53.8 million followers and praised White House chief of staff for “quickly firing that dog!”
“It opens the door for cruelty and genocide,” Scarborough added. “Nobody is saying that Donald Trump is a Nazi, nobody is saying that he’s Adolf Hitler in 1938,1939,1940, but you can see time and time again… this is how dictators and tyrants open the door, and they do it by dehumanizing their political opponents.”
The commentary comes as advance orders have vaulted Manigault-Newman’s new book, “Unhinged,” to #5 on the best-seller list. Heavy media attention has centered around recordings the former “Apprentice” contestant has been sharing in interviews and leaked copies of the book.
The MSNBC host has argued Trump possesses autocratic characteristics on the program on multiple occasions in the past.
Scarborough, a former GOP congressman who left the party in 2017 because of Trump, once had a close relationship with the former real estate mogul and reality show star.
Trump appeared regularly on “Morning Joe” by phone as a candidate for generally friendly interviews that drew criticism from other media members for what they saw as free advertising for his campaign.
Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski’s relationship with Trump soured after he captured the GOP nomination in May 2016. Trump has not appeared on the morning program or the network in any capacity since that time.
