{"id":1122657,"date":"2021-12-15T18:14:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T23:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1122657"},"modified":"2021-12-15T18:14:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T23:14:41","slug":"scarborough-desantis-cruz-trump-engaging-in-phony-populism-so-insulting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scarborough-desantis-cruz-trump-engaging-in-phony-populism-so-insulting\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarborough: DeSantis, Cruz, Trump Engaging in &#039;Phony Populism&#039; &#8212; &#039;So Insulting&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fscarborough-desantis-cruz-trump-engaging-in-phony-populism-so-insulting%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1122657&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Scarborough-722-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>MSNBC \u201cMorning Joe\u201d host Joe Scarborough on Wednesday slammed \u201cIvy League snobs\u201d such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and former President Donald Trump for \u201cplaying dopes\u201d and engaging in \u201cphony populism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scarborough said the act by those GOP lawmakers was \u201cso insulting.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDeSantis, like, you know, I just want&nbsp;DeSantis \u2014 if he runs for president \u2014 like, he\u2019s so stupid. He plays so stupid, this Yale and Harvard guy. They\u2019ve got signs popping up in Florida that says, \u2018Make Florida America Again.\u2019 It doesn\u2019t even make any sense,\u201d Scarborough mocked, adding he wants a sign with DeSantis sporting a dunce cap.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>He continued, \u201cTrump, I don\u2019t know how his dad got him into school, but his dad got into Penn. And then you have got DeSantis, Yale, and Harvard. You have Ted [Cruz], Princeton and Harvard. \u2026 I mean, all these guys that are playing dopes on television, like you said, it is so insulting, this populist game they play. It is insulting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scarborough called the \u201cphony populism\u201d a \u201csham.\u201d He argued that Trump was the \u201cworst\u201d of the offenders because he just wanted to help billionaires and large corporations \u201cescape taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has nothing to do with ideology,\u201d he added. \u201cIt has everything to do with illiberalism. It has everything to do with them doing this phony, populist game. And while they\u2019re doing the phony, populist game, they\u2019re helping billionaires, and they\u2019re helping multi-national corporations escape taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Trent Baker&nbsp;on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/MagnifiTrent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@MagnifiTrent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC \u201cMorning Joe\u201d host Joe Scarborough on Wednesday slammed \u201cIvy League snobs\u201d such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and former President Donald Trump for \u201cplaying &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1122657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1122657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}