Taunting Donald Trump as racist and sexist is getting a tad shopworn. Needing some fresh material, Morning Joe broke out a new attack line on Trump today, calling him “a badly damaged, deeply damaged man.”
In an opening segment devoted to trashing Trump over his performance at the National Association of Black Journalists forum yesterday, Mike Barnicle was the first to float the new line, saying:
“What we saw yesterday is just another exhibit of a badly damaged man on stage….the culture has passed him by. He’s playing an old-school politics that has always worked for him. Hate, envy, resentment, fear of the other.”
A bit later, Charlie Sykes echoed Barnicle, twice: “this is a deeply damaged man who, who is really sort of, you know, once again in the Fat Elvis stage of his career….it was a bizarre performance, and I’m really glad they invited him…
