MS NOW’s “Morning Joe” reminds us of Donald Trump’s focus on “Sleepy Joe” Biden and then discusses photos and videos of the current president appearing to take little naps on the job, and similar hypocrisies on the issues of gas prices, family grift, and promising not to go to war with Iran. “You can’t just go on and on and on about ‘Sleepy Joe, Sleepy Joe’ and then do it even more in the White House than your predecessor did,” Joe Scarborough said. “Or the ‘Biden crime family’ because Hunter made $ 50 off of NFTs,” he continued. “Maybe he made $ 2 million. We’re now talking about the Trump family at least clearing $ 3 billion, $ 4 billion… We don’t know if it’s legal or not!” “And then, ‘Thanks, Biden,’ for gas prices,” he continued. “We showed clips of Republicans freaking out over gas prices at $ 3.00, $ 3.50, and we’re at $ 4.50 now.” “The hypocrisy of Trump followers, the hypocrisy of people who are speaking on his behalf – it’s just, I mean – are they stupid? We see what you said last year,” he said. “We saw what JD Vance said: ‘Donald Trump will never go to Iran. That’s the difference between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. She’ll get us into a war with Iran.’ The hypocrisy is endless.” “I think it’s not that they’re stupid. I think it’s that they’re shameless,” added co-host Jonathan Lemire. “That’s the superpower of Donald Trump and his inner circle.”

JOE SCARBOROUGH: Everybody’s entitled to sleep. I like sleep. Sometimes you close your eyes, you get tired. But do you remember Sleepy Joe? Remember, Joe Biden goes to a memorial service in Hawaii, and he closes his eyes for about three seconds, and a lot of people thought it was because he was sad at the tragedy there. And the Trump people just went absolutely crazy: “Sleepy Joe, Sleepy Joe.” This isn’t the first time he’s appeared to be taking a catnap in the Oval Office. Reagan did it. People do it. Okay, that’s fine. But you can’t just go on and on and on about “Sleepy Joe, Sleepy Joe,” and then do it even more in the White House than your predecessor did. JONATHAN LEMIRE: Yeah, they lost their minds at that moment back when Joe Biden was president. And what we’re seeing here is, with increased frequency, President Trump seems to be blinking at great length on camera, very, very long on camera, in the Oval Office, in front of a lot of people, which is raising some questions about him and his age and such. But you’re right. Certainly in 2024, President Donald – then Donald Trump, before he was back in office – raised the questions about Joe Biden. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: He has one ability I don’t have, he sleeps. He can sleep. This guy goes on a beach and he lays down on one of those, you know, six-ounce – they weigh six ounces and you can’t lift it… but he has an ability to fall asleep while on camera. He can lie down on one of those things, and in minutes, he’s stone-cold out. How does he do it? He’s the president, so they have cameras on him. And then they show him sleeping on the beach. You’ll never see me sleeping in front of cameras. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Well, Andrew Schulz chortling there. He’s now seen the errors in his ways. But you know, it goes also to, again, all you ever heard: “Sleepy Joe, Sleepy Joe, Sleepy Joe, Sleepy Joe.” Or the Biden crime family. The Biden crime family because Hunter made $ 50 off of NFTs, or $ 2,000, or maybe from Burisma, or whatever it was called, maybe made, you know, a $ 3 million fee. Maybe he made $ 2 million. We’re now talking about the Trump family at least clearing $ 3 billion, $ 4 billion. And so people say, “Well, it’s legal. It’s legal.” Well, we don’t know if it’s legal or not. We don’t know what quid pro quos were there and what weren’t. So again, our point is not going to Donald Trump sleeping in the White House. Our point is not going to the billions of dollars. It’s going to the sheer hypocrisy of followers who literally went on saying, “Sleepy Joe,” and we’ve got somebody even sleepier in the White House now. “The Biden crime family,” where we’re talking about maybe a couple million dollars versus $ 4 billion, $ 5 billion maybe. And then, “Thanks, Biden,” for gas prices at, you know – we showed clips of Republicans freaking out over gas prices at $ 3, $ 3.25, $ 3.50, and we’re at $ 4.50 now. So again, these things happen. We’re at a war. But the hypocrisy of Trump followers, the hypocrisy of people who are speaking on his behalf – it’s just, I mean, are they stupid? It’s like there is video. We see what you said last year and the year before. We see what you said about Iran. We saw what members of Donald Trump’s family said about ‘Donald Trump will never go to Iran, Kamala Harris will.’ We saw what JD Vance said: Donald Trump will never go to Iran. That’s the difference between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. She’ll get us in a war with Iran. I mean, the hypocrisy is endless. It comes so fast that people don’t stop and just show how ridiculous they were a year ago, how they were either lying or they’re just hypocrites. JONATHAN LEMIRE: Yeah, I think it’s not that they’re stupid. I think it’s that they’re shameless. I think that’s the superpower from President Trump and so much of his inner circle. And you add to the list the things that they accused President Biden of doing that they are now doing exponentially more. So the use of the presidential pardon, another one. The number of times where they would criticize the previous administration for things and then they would do it on steroids. And we’re seeing that time and again. JOE SCARBOROUGH: And their followers, again, just blindly, like in a cult, their followers just going along, going, “Oh, well, it’s different.” Yeah, it is different. It’s exponentially worse. Now you’re talking about $ 4 billion maybe versus, you know – JONATHAN LEMIRE: There have been reports of the Trump family. The sons have openly discussed wanting to be the richest family in the world by the time the Trump administration was over. And they have been so used to receiving friendly media coverage from certain conservative outlets that they won’t be shown. Their followers, their supporters, won’t see those images, or they’re able to simply assert their own reality and say, “I don’t believe it.” They’re used to that cult-like following. You know, a cult that would perhaps build a giant golden statue of its leader on a golf course.

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