Scarborough Warns Musk And Trump Will Cause More Plane Crashes #Political
MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough was the latest in a list of dishonorable media figures to tie President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s budget-cutting efforts to the idea of additional plane crashes. Unlike other analyses, Scarborough’s ramblings come from someone who likes to style himself as one of the few remaining principled conservatives.
Addressing Axios’s Mike Allen, Scarborough falsely declared, “Mike, you and I have been in Washington long enough to know this. It's one thing to go against Donald Trump's tax cuts for the rich in 2017, as Democrats call them, and by the way, in so doing, they won the House and the Senate in 2018, made big gains in 2018.”
Fact-check: Republicans increased their Senate majority in 2018.
Nevertheless, Scarborough rolled on, “It's one thing if you do that and say they're going to cut this, cut taxes for billionaires like Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and then they're going to be all these cuts down the line.”
Scarborough then got to specific cuts:
What the Trump Administration is providing Democrats right now are those cuts. They're giving them the punchline to, ‘Oh, they're going to cut billionaires tax cuts, but guess what they're going to do. They're going to take away medical research that saved your daughter or saved somebody in your family. They're going to take away and fire people in the FAA. So, those plane crashes that you're seeing, you're going to see more of them, and in fact, the United States record of no plane crashes since 2009, we're going to look back on that as the good old days. You’re going to see cuts in food safety, in water safety, in air safety. They're going to see cuts.’
Scarborough meant commercial plane crashes, not total plane crashes. More importantly, however, there is no commonality between all the recent crashes.
Not quite done, Scarborough continued, “As Mika said, when we're talking about fighting the bird flu or other possible pandemics. Right now, they're doing, it's just like they're giving this to Democrats saying, ‘Here, take this punchline. This is what we're cutting, cutting, tax cuts for billionaires for.’ And then they can go down this list that we're seeing on the front page of the newspapers every day. Mike, it is political. It is political negligence and malfeasance. Plus, it's hurting people every day.
For a show that likes to say that truth matters and how it is their job to correct falsehoods, Scarborough was quite comfortable helping Democrats spin a false narrative about how dangerous air travel is becoming.
Here is a transcript for the February 19 show:
MSNBC Morning Joe
2/19/2025
6:41 AM ET
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Mike, you and I have been in Washington long enough to know this. It's one thing to go against Donald Trump's tax cuts for the rich in 2017, as Democrats call them, and by the way, in so doing, they won the House and the Senate in 2018, made big gains in 2018.
It's one thing if you do that and say they're going to cut this, cut taxes for billionaires like Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and then they're going to be all these cuts down the line.
What the Trump Administration is providing Democrats right now are those cuts. They're giving them the punchline to, “Oh, they're going to cut billionaires tax cuts, but guess what they're going to do. They're going to take away medical research that saved your daughter or saved somebody in your family. They're going to take away and fire people in the FAA. So, those plane crashes that you're seeing, you're going to see more of them, and in fact, the United States record of no plane crashes since 2009, we're going to look back on that as the good old days. You’re going to see cuts in food safety, in water safety, in air safety. They're going to see cuts."
As Mika said, when we're talking about fighting the bird flu or other possible pandemics. Right now, they're doing, it's just like they're giving this to Democrats saying, “Here, take this punchline. This is what we're cutting, cutting, tax cuts for billionaires for.”
And then they can go down this list that we're seeing on the front page of the newspapers every day. Mike, it is political. It is political negligence and malfeasance. Plus, it's hurting people every day.
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