"Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough (Photo: Screen capture)
On his Wednesday morning show, "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough attacked President Donald Trump for bungling the Iran War.
Trump spoke to the press from the G7 Summit in France around 6:30 a.m. EST where he gave details about the tentative deal to end the war in Iran.
Bloomberg News has the 14-point agreement, though it has little in the way of details. Among the details is a $300 million "reparations" payout, as confirmed, in part, by the Wall Street Journal, Scarborough said.
"JD Vance has admitted on TV to the $300 billion — he was asked about this $300 billion fund, which really is — it's reparations for Iran. It's as if we lost the war, $300 billion in the MOU language that we have seen. The draft language says that the financing will be guaranteed by the United States of America. So we're guaranteeing $300 billion in reparation funding for Iran. And then the Wall Street Journal is also reporting the unfreezing of Iranian funds across the globe. "
Ultimately, they're scoring "a tidy $500 billion slush fund for Iran to use on their nuke programs, to use for Hamas to use for Islamic Jihad, to use for Hezbollah to use for terrorism attacks as terrorism attacks across the globe. It is it again, half $1 trillion for a regime that was about to fall before we went in and gave them new life," the host said.
Scarborough cited an editorial saying that Iran is "euphoric over what has happened."
He said that in Iran's eyes, they stepped into the ring with "The Great Satan" and "took the punch. And we're now going to help them get $500 billion. They took America's best punch, and they've come out stronger, richer, and more powerful because of it."
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"Morning Joe" co-host Willie Geist commented on some of the striking language coming from the president.
Among the odd things Trump has done is praise the new regime in Tehran, saying they've been "nice to deal with" and that they are "very rational people."
"That's the president of the United States talking about the regime in Tehran that has called for the death of the United States for 47 years," Geist said. "And, Joe, you made the point that Iran feels like it took its best punch. It also made a bet that all the bluster from President Trump was just that bluster when he said, 'A civilization is going to die tonight if they don't come to the table and get rid of the nuclear program. We're going to hit them harder than they have ever been hit.'"
"And that was the betthat this regime made, that Donald Trump was all talk. Andto this point, it appears thathe has been and that none ofthose objectives laid out on February 28th have been achieved yet," he added.
Geist called the plan "disastrous."
Scarborough took a victory lap, claiming that from the start of the war, he knew that this would be the way things would ultimately be resolved.
"And he's just going to pull the ripcord and get out of there when it becomes too uncomfortable. Politically, they became quite indignant and said, That's not a possibility. I said, well, you've got to know who you're dealing with now," he said.