MSNBC host Joe Scarborough said Wednesday on "Morning Joe" that President Donald Trump treated Puerto Rican residents like "peasants" when he threw paper towel rolls to them a day earlier during a visit to the hurricane-ravaged island.
Trump visited San Juan, Puerto Rico on Tuesday to meet with local and federal officials to assess the damage from Hurricane Maria. In addition to his meeting with the officials, Trump visited Calvary Chapel in San Juan to pass out food before launching rolls of paper towels into the crowd of hurricane victims.
MSNBC's Willie Geist said that Trump's meeting with the officials reminded him of a wedding rehearsal dinner where the groom is running the night and telling those in attendance to get up and say a few words about "how well we've done and how well we continue to do."
Later in the segment, Scarborough castigated Trump by calling him "woefully ill-equipped" to be president of the United States. Co-host Mika Brzezinski added onto the criticism by calling him a "danger" and cited Newsweek for its previous coverage of analysis that called Trump "dangerous."
"Everyday we somehow manage to be surprised by some other—not political norm, but societal norm that this man breaks," Scarborough said. "Yesterday, chucking paper towels at people like he's at halftime of a basketball game, people who are suffering, treating them basically like peasants."
"'Here, a paper towel for you. Here's a paper towel for you,'" Scarborough said.