Morning Joe: Trump And GOP Now All In On Authoritarianism
Morning Joe continues to point out Trump's increasingly authoritarian statements.
"That's what America looks like under Donald Trump's second term if we take them at his own words, right?" Mika said.
"I thought that line about, 'He's not controversial because he says what he wants and gets it done. He's the boss,' was so reflective," Scarborough said.
"Projection, confession. You know, that was confession of what Donald Trump would like. Viktor Orban is proud of the fact he's made Hungary what he calls an illiberal democracy. I'm not sure whether those two things can be possible together. How do you have a democracy that is illiberal? That goes against the strain of democracy.
"Anyway, that's what he's done by packing the courts with his cronies, weighing in on judicial cases, by making it incredibly difficult for journalists to do any kind of independent reporting. they are told by their editors what facts they can report before they actually are allowed to write their articles. That's the kind of state that Donald Trump down there in Mar-A-Lago in that speech seems to be admiring. It is also the state, you know, Tucker Carlson went to Viktor Orban to kind of pay homage to his leadership.