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A “Morning Joe” panel says President Donald Trump is blind to Americans’ pain because of a bubble of ignorance shielding him from facts.
“Every time Trump says, ‘no, [the economy’s] not so bad,’ it's reminding me what [former President Joe] Biden’s big mistake was,” said brand and marketing expert Donny Deutsch. “Not only was the economy not going well, not only were prices high, but [Biden] was not acknowledging it. He was saying, ‘no, no, no, you're not feeling it this way. You're really not.’ You can’t tell people what they can think. You can't tell people what they feel, and they feel the things are not going their way.”
Show host Joe Scarborough agreed that Trump and Biden share the same disinformation bubble.
“People said they tried to get to Joe Biden and tell him about polls. We heard it most famously from [then House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi, who … was whisked over to the White House and told … Biden, when he tried to say, ‘my polls are great,’ she said, ‘you're not being told the truth now. Your polls aren't good.’ But there was a bubble and he was kept from those cold, hard facts,” said Scarborough. “And now you have Donald Trump. He's the same thing.”
“Donald Trump will tell you ‘I've got the highest poll numbers ever,’” Scarborough added. “‘The economy is doing better than ever before. I've got affordability. There's no such thing as an affordability crisis.’ And he'll go down the list of things because there is literally no one … in the White House that's going to come in and say, ‘Mr. President, you have a problem.’”
The Rev. Al Sharpton suggested Trump’s ego made the bubble even more impregnable.
“I think the problem is the price of admission to this president, as you must come in and bow and sing hosanna to the highest,” said Sharpton. “When talking about him, someone needs to say to him, ‘we're approaching the holidays. We're a week from Thanksgiving, so affordability is real to people.’ People are in grocery stores and seeing the prices have gone up. He promised day one, he was going to deal with these things … [but] there's no one that goes in there that doesn't have to genuflect in front of him. That will tell him that.”