Raw Story: Foreign countries 'cannot believe what we are doing to ourselves': Morning Joe

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Raw Story - Foreign countries 'cannot believe what we are doing to ourselves': Morning Joe

Travis Gettys
April 15, 2025 6:48AM ET

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough blasted president Donald Trump for eroding American advantages as he pushes through unpopular and legally questionable policies.

China has been working to build new trade relationships with nations that Trump has slapped with massive tariffs, as foreign universities are recruiting U.S. researchers who have lost jobs thanks to Elon Musk's funding cuts, and the "Morning Joe" host weighed in on the issue from a trip to the United Kingdom.

"If I could if I could sum up everything I learned yesterday, three months after I was here, and I've talked about it on the show a good bit," Scarborough said. "But three months, after all I heard in Britain and Europe was about America's supremacy, economic supremacy, and how they wanted to be more like us, and that was three months ago, four months ago in December. Things have changed so dramatically, and just as a journalist talking about China's new diplomatic and economic opportunities, what I'm hearing here is new economic opportunities for Britain and the rest of Europe, economic, diplomatic opportunities."

The Trump administration has tried to take control of Harvard, ordering the university to eliminate its DEI programs and screen international students for ideological concerns, but the president ordered $2.3 billion in federal funding to the school after it rejected those demands as other cuts threaten research elsewhere.

"Institutions here, whether you're talking about Cambridge, Oxford, all across Europe, they can't believe their luck," Scarborough said. "They can't believe that America is dumb enough to cut funding to [the National Institutes of Health], America is dumb enough to cut funding [research and development] funding. They're dumb enough to chase off the best and the brightest students, and they're getting they're getting those students coming here and, actually, so Britain and a Europe that three or four months ago said we're never going to catch up with America, just said, my God, they're actually slowing down and going to let us catch up."

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[sop]

1. I can't believe what the Republican party is doing to this country.

[Vogon_Glory]

3. I can believe it. What I still can't believe is how many voters were

so self-blinded and pig-headed that they voted for Orange Julius and the ruling party. I used to believe that this was something Third World countries lacking experience with free republics and the norms of representative government did, not the United States of America.

How wrong I was!

One of the ironies of our current situation is that American xenophobes beating the drums for severe immigration restrictions used to go around saying that those dang foreigners didn’t understand democracy, American culture, or how to conduct themselves in a free country. The punch line was that the people who re-elected Orange Julius were American citizens who’ were born here, educated here, and whose families more often been here for generations, if not for centuries. THEY were the ones who turned out to vote for Orange Man, not the brown-skinned foreigners from far away.

American exceptionalism is dead. The chattering classes on the center and right are too clueless to figure that out.

[lonely bird]

2. Joe and Mika

Have no room to talk.

They went and bent the knee to the Orange Orangutan.