“Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough has an interesting theory about why President Trump has suddenly reversed himself in recent admissions that Russia meddled in the 2016 U.S. election and that the current Republican health care bill is “mean.”
On Monday’s show, the MSNBC star credited Barack Obama’s “Jedi mind tricks.”
“We got ‘Star Wars’ fans here? Anybody ‘Star Wars’ fans here?” he began. “You didn’t know exactly where Barack Obama went. But if you saw, obviously he went to the island where Luke went, and he has come back with these extraordinary Jedi mind tricks.”
Scarborough went on with his analogy. “Because everybody … has been trying to get [Trump] to admit that the Russians meddled with our elections,” he said.
“Barack Obama comes back and says, ‘The Russians meddled with our elections,’ And [Trump] writes a tweet, ‘The Russians meddled with our elections.’ And [Obama] says, ‘Your health care is mean.’ And [Trump] goes, ‘My health care plan is mean!’”
“Mmmm, Obama,” Scarborough said, launching into his best Yoda impression. “Strong the Force is with his family.”
Watch the video above.