If there’s anything that Morning Joe utterly hates to do, it’s saying something positive about Donald Trump. Well, at least since 2016, that is.
So what does it take to get the show to stray from its Trump-hating tradition? Simple: have Trump side with the union over management in a labor dispute.
And thus it was that, as we say in our NewsBusters rubric, there was “sudden respect” for Trump on today’s Morning Joe.
It came in response to the news that Trump will skip the second Republican debate, traveling instead to Detroit to give a primetime speech expressing his support for the autoworkers in their strike against Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis [owner of Chrysler and Dodge.]
From Joe Scarborough, to Jonathan Lemire, to Katty Kay, to Elise Jordan …