Scarborough hits Trump: ‘Much easier to stamp your name on buildings’ than pass legislation

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough slammed President Trump early Tuesday for failing to get the GOP healthcare plan passed in the Senate, stating “it’s much easier to stamp your name on buildings” than getting “significant legislation passed.”

His comments come after Republican Sens. Jerry Moran (Kan.) and Mike Lee (Utah) indicated Monday night they will not support taking up a bill repealing and replacing ObamaCare, thereby defeating any chance the bill could proceed.

“What he’s actually finding is, as somebody said earlier this morning, that it’s much easier to stamp your name on buildings, on steaks and on online university courses than it is to actually reason [with] Washington, D.C., and get significant legislation passed,” Scarborough said to his co-host, Mika Brzezinski, on “Morning Joe.”

{mosads}”And this was quite the failure, Mika, after he continued to promise he was going to get it done,” he continued.

“You remember the Rose Garden celebration a couple of months ago? The president forgot that you have to pass it through the House and the Senate. So this is doubly humiliating for him this morning.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said late Monday that the Senate will now focus on an ObamaCare repeal for now and work on replacing at a later date.

“In the coming days, the Senate will vote to take up the House bill with the first amendment in order being what a majority of the Senate has already supported in 2015 and that was vetoed by then-President Obama: a repeal of Obamacare with a two-year delay to provide for a stable transition period,” McConnell said in a statement.

The president echoed McConnell on Twitter in terms of a new strategy and suggested Democrats “will join in” if a new plan starts “from a clean slate.”

Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 18, 2017

Scarborough and Brzezinski were on friendly terms with Trump throughout 2015 and up until around the time the then-presidential candidate clinched the Republican nomination last year.

After a major fallout, however, Trump hasn’t appeared on “Morning Joe” or MSNBC in any capacity since May 2016.