Scarborough Lectures Trump on Blasphemy, But MS NOW Is Like the ACLU on Church and State #Political
On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough slipped into full sermon mode—lecturing viewers on Christianity while accusing Donald Trump of committing “unforgivable” blasphemy over a social media post featuring an image apparently portraying him as Jesus.
It's more than a little weird to see the leftists who sound like ACLU fans who want to separate the church and state get so excited about blasphemy, when they don't really mind God being mocked by leftist standup comedians from Bill Maher on down.
But they want to play up how offensive this was to Christians. Scarborough laid it on thick:
SCARBOROUGH: Jesus says everything is forgivable except blasphemy, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, certainly blasphemy against Jesus. So it appears at least for a handful of public Christians who have spent the past decade more interested in gaining his support than actually following the Bible, it was even too much for them yesterday.
Scarborough doubled down, portraying himself as a kind of on-air catechist.
“As always, we offer guidance to those who claim to be good Christians, but don’t talk like they understand anything about Christianity,” he said. “Just get a Bible, get a red-letter edition, read the red letters. It will all come very clear to you. It’s not that hard.”
That condescension was matched by selective gatekeeping. Scarborough repeatedly mocked Vice President J.D. Vance as a “newly, newly converted Catholic,” which is a little strange, considering Vance was received into the church in 2019. That's longer ago than the Cheneys and Kinzingers converting to the MS NOW side of the aisle.
By that logic, it’s reasonable to ask whether—and if so, when—Scarborough left the Southern Baptist church. He often describes himself as having been “raised” in it—past tense—while positioning himself as a theological authority on air.
Co-host Willie Geist piled on, asserting that Trump’s post was “just the definition of blasphemy,” while suggesting Trump “doesn’t understand religion” and posted it out of ignorance.
The segment’s most muddled moment came from Mika Brzezinski. Although she began by identifying herself as a Catholic, she then shifted to speaking “as a woman,” claiming Trump’s explanation—that the image depicted him as a doctor—was “gaslighting,” citing "the cost of health care, the fall of Roe, and the list goes on."
Mika's framing veered into incoherence. The very Catholic teaching Scarborough was ostensibly defending includes firm opposition to abortion—making Brzezinski’s invocation of Roe an awkward fit for the argument she was attempting to advance.
In the end, it was classic MS NOW: confident moralizing, shaky on the religion.
Here's the transcript.
MS NOW
Morning Joe
4/14/26
6:03 am EDTJOE SCARBOROUGH: Maybe he thought, oh, this would be a funny post to put up, not understanding that Jesus says everything is forgivable except blasphemy, blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, certainly blasphemy against Jesus.
So it appears at least for a handful of public Christians who have spent the past decade more interested in gaining his support than actually following the Bible, it was even too much for them yesterday.
WILLIE GEIST: And not an isolated incident. Of course, this comes in the context of his attack on Pope Leo, his ongoing attacks on Pope Leo.
The next day, he posts himself as Christ. Really, just the definition of blasphemy right there in one post, the picture saying, I actually am Jesus. I actually and the healer.
And as you say, he doesn't know that. He doesn't understand religion, he doesn't understand faith, so maybe he actually didn't know that, he thought it was funny or something. And so he posted it, and he saw the backlash, and this is a very, very rare occasion where perhaps he understood that maybe he screwed up, pulled it down.
But then the explanation shows such contempt for his supporters and the people who believe in him that he would say, oh no, I thought I was a doctor, let's move along. No, you didn't. We know exactly what was going on there.
SCARBOROUGH: He didn't understand the degree of blasphemy that was, and that even for some of his most loyal, faithful, blinded Christian conservatives, that went too far.
I've got to tell you, Catholics have been having quite a bitter chuckle, though, Mika, over a guy who decided to become a Catholic last week, or a little earlier than that. And then said, I'm going to do two things. I'm going to write a book about being a Catholic, and I'm going to attack the Pope.
And I'm going to lecture the Pope about how he should do his job at the Vatican. This, of course, is J.D. Vance, who decides he's lecturing the Pontiff on what he should and should not do. And acting as if he's shocked and stunned and deeply saddened that the Pope actually talks about things that pertain to the gospel of Jesus Christ. Blessed are the peacemakers.
I've just got to say to J.D. Vance, newly, newly converted Catholic, if you don't like what the Pope's saying, don't take it up with the Pope. Take it up with Jesus Christ because those are the words.
Mika, I want you to hear, again, this guy who came to the Catholic faith late, decided to write a book about the Catholic faith and then decided to attack the Pope, telling him how he should do his job.
Well, I want to play a clip of him yesterday. It was, it was delightful.
JD VANCE: I think that in some cases, it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality, to stick to matters of, you know, what's going on in the Catholic Church, and let the President of the United States stick to dictating American public policy. But when they're in conflict, they're in conflict. I don't worry about it too much, Bret. I think it's a natural thing. I'm sure it'll happen in the future, and it's not that big of a deal that it happened in the past.
SCARBOROUGH: Matters of morality. That's exactly what he's talking about, buddy. Come on, pal. He's talking about matters of morality. Pope after Pope after Pope has been critical of war. He's been critical when people have been oppressed, like people have been oppressed in the United States because of mass deportation policies.
. . .
And Mika, as always, we offer guidance to those who claim to be good Christians, but don't talk like they understand anything about Christianity. Just get a Bible, get a red letter edition, read the red letters. It will all come very clear to you. It's not that hard.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: I think, as a Catholic, one might be insulted by the image of Trump as Jesus, as blasphemous and just horrifying.
But then his explanation that he was actually a doctor, just as a woman, one might find that to be as gaslighting as it gets, given the cost of health care, the fall of Roe, and the list goes on.
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