Scarborough Mocks WH Over Immigration Talks: Trump's Staff Treat Him Like He's a 'Blubbery Old Man'

by Aidan McLaughlin | 7:20 am, January 22nd, 2018

Morning Joe opened Monday’s episode with a look at the latest New York Times report looking inside President Donald Trump’s deliberations on the government shutdown — and Joe Scarborough was scathing in his conclusions about the president and his staff.

The Times’ Maggie Haberman reported on Sunday that Trump has been close to striking a deal on DACA in the past few weeks, only to have that progress upended by White House staff — namely Chief of Staff John Kelly and policy adviser Stephen Miller.

“The president had a Chinese dinner with Democrats, talked once again about wanting to extend legal status to Dreamers, staff members quickly ran behind him again like he was some fool, like he’s some bumpkin, some idiot who doesn’t know what he wants to do,” Scarborough said, “rushed behind him, killed the deal again.”

Scarborough continued that in recent negotiations, Trump told lawmakers he was open to whatever bipartisan deal they came up with.

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