Joe Scarborough Compares Trump to Hitler Appeaser Neville Chamberlain Over Ukraine Stance
Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough compared former President Donald Trump to UK prime minister Neville Chamberlain over his stance on the Russia-Ukraine war in a nod to the British leader that famously adopted a failed policy of appeasement against Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler’s aggressive expansion in Europe before World War Two.
The remarks came after Trump continued to criticize Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is set to meet with President Joe Biden on Thursday to discuss his plans to end the war with Russia.
At the MAGA rally in North Carolina, Trump reflected that “Ukraine is gone” and that “any deal, even the worst deal, would have been better than what we have right now.”
After rolling back the clip, Scarborough responded: “Thank you so much for your insights, Neville Chamberlain. Peace at all costs. Peace in our times. You know, I have to say, it’s really hard to be shocked by Donald Trump’s Republican party in 2024.”
As Britain sought to avoid war with Germany in the 1930s, Chamberlain’s policy conceded areas of the Sudetenland, the German-speaking part of Czechoslovakia in a bid to satisfy Hitler’s expansionist aims.
Scarborough continued, slamming Trump for his recurring references to his “positive” relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
And yet, we have, over the past several days, seen his crowds cheering for Vladimir Putin, seemingly booing Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Donald Trump talking about how… saying one positive thing after another positive thing about Vladimir Putin. Every time he speaks about Putin. And constantly criticizing Zelenskyy. Constantly criticizing Ukraine. Constantly suggesting if he is president, he is going to end the war at once.
There was a Vanderbilt poll taken last year, they asked self-identified MAGA voters, who do you think is a better president, Russia’s autocrat, Vladimir Putin, or Joe Biden – America’s democratically elected president? 52% said Putin was the better president. Only 18 percent of these Republicans said the American president was a better president. Talk about not only how surprising that is, but I’ve just got to say, how challenging that is for our country, that you have a large chunk of Americans that have been moving towards an autocrat because their leader is so supportive of an autocrat.
Washington Post associate editor and MSNBC contributor David Ignatius agreed that the stance by MAGA Republicans was “not just surprising” but “shocking.”
He continued: “Trump really is waving the white flag here. From the stuff we just saw: ‘Ukraine is gone.’ He’s ready to declare this war over, he’s ready to install a peace plan that would essentially be a Russian victory.
He added: “It’s true that Ukraine and Russia both are just punching themselves into the ground. I just was in Ukraine. I wrote after that visit that Ukraine is bleeding out. There’s a generation that’s dying on the battleground. It is a horrific war. But the idea that the answer to that, this terrible, terrible sacrifice, is to essentially concede to Russia and to Putin, his demands, it’s shocking. Question for me is when are Republicans who widely disagree with this on Capitol Hill going to say something? Going to say: ‘This is unacceptable to us, that our candidate speaks, in effect, on behalf of the adversary of our ally Ukraine.’”
“He will support Vladimir Putin,” co-host Mika Brzezinski said of Trump.
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