MSNBC’s Morning Joe Stuns Its Audience with Defense of Trump’s Iran Strategy [WATCH]

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Monday offered a rare public defense of President Donald Trump’s recent military strike on Iran, arguing that both Republican and Democrat presidents likely would have made the same call.

Speaking during a panel discussion, Scarborough said Trump’s decision to launch more than a dozen bunker-buster missiles into Iran’s nuclear facilities followed a long-established playbook developed by previous administrations.

“I find it hard to believe that Bush 41, Bush 43, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton – you know, go down the list – any president wouldn’t have felt compelled to take that strike,” Scarborough said.

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The comments followed Scarborough’s earlier acknowledgment that he and co-host Mika Brzezinski had pushed their program “too far to the left” since the 2024 election.

The pair had visited President Trump at Mar-a-Lago in what they described as a reset of their professional relationship.

Scarborough, a former Republican congressman and longtime critic of Trump, told viewers there were “no good options” on the table for the president.

He asked panelist David Ignatius of The Washington Post, “What would Monday look like if he hadn’t have moved?”

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Ignatius agreed that any other president might have taken similar action under the circumstances.

Ignatius stated that Trump’s strike on three nuclear enrichment facilities in Iran was not an innovation but rather a continuation of existing strategies.

“He inherited a battle plan from the presidents before him,” Ignatius said.

He added that the targeted sites had long been considered by both U.S. and Israeli intelligence to be key components of Iran’s uranium enrichment efforts.

“Both Bushes and Obama considered this scenario when diplomacy wasn’t working,” Ignatius said.

Scarborough also cited former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, noting that foreign policy decisions often involve difficult trade-offs.

“Henry Kissinger famously said that when you’re sitting in the White House and trying to make a decision on foreign policy, the possibility of war, you’re never handed a good decision and a bad decision, you’re handed two very difficult choices,” he said.

“And the president made that choice.”

According to the panel, diplomatic efforts were exhausted before the airstrikes were ordered.

Scarborough pointed to reported efforts by both President Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to engage Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Istanbul for diplomatic discussions.

The efforts collapsed when Khamenei reportedly went off the grid and ceased communications.

“Yeah, the diplomatic route ran out for the White House,” said former BBC journalist Katty Kay, as quoted by the Daily Mail.

“The military route became the possibility that previous presidents have ignored.”

Following the strike, Iran retaliated by launching at least six ballistic missiles at a U.S. military base in Qatar.

According to initial reports, the missiles failed to inflict significant damage. American military personnel across the region remain on high alert.

Meanwhile in Washington, several progressive lawmakers, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), are calling for a third impeachment of President Trump.

They claim he violated the Constitution by not seeking congressional authorization prior to the strike. That effort appears unlikely to move forward.

A Democratic senator, speaking to reporters on condition of anonymity, confirmed that the impeachment proposal would not advance.

“It’s dead on arrival,” the senator said, pointing to Republican control of both the House and Senate.

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