"Morning Joe" co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough (Photo: screen capture)
The full panel of "Morning Joe" started off Tuesday cracking up over President Donald Trump's bizarre new fascination with "the male physique."
Speaking in Ohio on Monday night, Trump talked about checking out the rear end of Sen. John Husted (R-Ohio) and gushed over the size of his hands.
"But I'm standing over here, and I don't do this with men very often. I started examining his body because I didn't know he was a great athlete," Trump confessed to his audience. "And I looked, and I watched up and down. I looked at his a—, and I looked at the whole — and then I looked at his hands, look at his hands. He's got these like claws. And I got it. You are a great athlete. I didn't know that because he doesn't talk about that. Congratulations. Now they finally know that was very good. John fought for Ohio. Look at that jawline. I'm telling you, I never saw that. I never studied him."
The camera turned to Joe Scarborough and a very confused Mika Brzezinski.
"He has a rank," Scarborough told Willie Geist. He's "become quite the admirer of the male physique. We hear it all the time. Loves talking about buff men. I mean, this is out of a village people video. Like every one of his events. It's like, whoa, look here, look here."
"Did he say he was looking at his..." Brzezinski quewstioned.
"His rear end," Geist said. "And his jawline."
From jawline to rear end. Front to back, he sees it," mocked Scarborough.
"This time it wasn't Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart. He's usually going out of his way to compliment the thick, beautiful, tree-trunk legs that he has. He talked about the beautiful," Geist said, trailing off. "Yeah, members of the military that he sees in the audience. He praises their physical appearance. But this was a new..."
Brzezinski said she wished that Trump would "keep his private life private."
"He said. I looked at him top to bottom, including, forgive me, his a—. He was checking out the a— of a U.S. senator."
"No," Brzezinski said.
"Which actually, you know, when you invite a U.S. president to come in during a midterm election, you're having trouble possibly losing. This is not on the top of your list of things you want the president of the United States to come in and talk about at your rally," Scarborough said as the panel laughed.
Laura Barrón-López noted that the year began with Trump talking about New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani: "he's better looking in person."
Scarborough noted that Trump does tend to talk a lot about how buff men are.
"So, I guess it's wonderful he appreciates the male physique, I guess," he said.
They brought in New York Times columnist David French, who said that while Trump is rambling about someone's physical characteristics, he's not making horrible deals with Russia.
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