Morning Joe's face turns red with laughter watching Trump struggle to talk religion

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough laughed until his face turned red after watching Donald Trump struggle to explain his religious faith.

The former president was interviewed over the weekend by "Fox & Friends," where co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy read a question from a viewer in Alabama who asked about his relationship with God and asked how he prayed as he faced "so much adversity and persecution," and the "Morning Joe" host cracked up as Trump turned an expression of faith into one of his infamous "sir" stories.

"Okay, I think it is good," Trump said. "I do very well with the evangelicals, I love the evangelicals, and I have more people saying they pray for me – I can't even believe it. They are so committed and so believing. They say, 'Sir, you're going to be okay, I pray for you every day.' I mean, everybody, almost – I can't say everybody, but almost everybody that sees me, they say it."

Scarborough sat in stunned silence for a long moment before bursting into laughter, taking nearly 30 seconds until he was able to offer a comment on the ex-president's answer.

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"Um, I'm sorry," Scarborough said, still laughing. "I mean, seriously. Just go to church once, right? Just get the crib notes, right? I can write it out for you in an index card, okay? I'll just write it out for you on an index card. When somebody asks you what your relationship with is with God, don't go, 'Well, evangelicals vote for me and say, 'Sir, we pray for you.' Not sure where on the Sermon on the Mount Jesus said that. It certainly wasn't the Beatitudes. He was asked in 2016, do you ask for forgiveness. He said, 'I've never done anything that I needed to ask God for forgiveness.'"

"I find it fascinating," Scarborough added, "he won't answer that question, he won't answer that question about a relationship with God, and he still, as as far as his prayer life goes, again, he still -- you know, he says he has no need to pray because he's perfect. He's asked about both of those things, and he goes, 'Well, you know, evangelicals like me, they say, Sir, sir.' It is just a parody for people to go, 'Oh, he is a man of God, he is Jesus, he is Jesus in flesh,' it is really -- again, I mean, comparing him to Jesus Christ on the cross, which some evangelical so-called leaders did, it's just – it's just beyond parody. It's sad."

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06 04 2024 07 04 40 youtu.be