It was a red-letter day on set at “Morning Joe,” Friday.
In just about three minutes, show co-host Joe Scarborough and Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson bantered back and forth about how the Trump administration had taken a totalitarian tone — with free-floating comparisons to Stalin, Mao and the “dear leader.”
“We’re in the Dear Leader phase of American history,” said Robinson through laughter, referencing the preferred moniker of the late North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il.
“What about that kid, and I’m going to call him a kid, a couple of days ago talking about the purging, using Stalinist and Mao language and gee, do these people not understand?” asked Scarborough.