Morning Joe blasts Trump for being 'out of touch' with his own party

In late November, Gallup's tracking poll found President Donald Trump's overall approval rating falling to 36 percent. And among independents, it was only 25 percent.

Trump, however, fared slightly better in a YouGov/Economist poll that found his overall approval at 39 percent.

During a Thursday, December 11 rant on MS NOW's "Morning Joe," host Joe Scarborough — a Never Trumper and former GOP congressman — warned fellow conservatives that the more "out of touch" Trump appears on the economy, the more his party will suffer for it.

Scarborough told fellow host Mika Brzezinski, the New York Times' Peter Baker and journalist Willie Geist, "It's just a question of do you get it or not. And when he goes to the Poconos and he says affordability is a con job….. He still believes it's a con job. And we looked at grocery prices going up, heating bills going up, electricity going up, cost of cars going up — the cost of everything is, again, more of a challenge than ever, ever before. And you were seeing, Peter Baker, people coming out of that event talking to (MS NOW's) Vaughn Hillyard and others saying, 'You know, he just doesn't get it.'"

The conservative "Morning Joe" Host continued, "And he's a billionaire, of course. So maybe he's not going to get it, but at least he used to pretend to get it."

Scarborough argued that Trump's unpopularity on the economy is hurting more and more GOP candidates.

The ex-congressman told Brzezinski, Baker and Geist, "You see (Gov.-elect) Abigail Spanberger win by double digits in Virginia on affordability. You saw (New Jersey Gov.-elect) Mikey Sherrill win by double digits when many people thought that race was going to be neck and neck right up until the very end. And then, of course, Miami elects their first woman mayor…. All of this keeps adding up, and Republicans understand that. The understand the president is out of touch on this key issue, and they're the ones who are suffering."