'Grading on a curve': Morning Joe rates Trump 'almost normal' because he didn't threaten to crush...

[DonViejo]

‘Grading on a curve’: Morning Joe rates Trump ‘almost normal’ because he didn’t threaten to crush democracy

TRAVIS GETTYS
01 MAR 2017 AT 07:26 ET

A "Morning Joe” panel gave President Donald Trump high marks for his speech before Congress, but they tempered their praise with caution that governance requires hard work.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough opened the segment by defensively arguing that he wasn’t “normalizing anybody,” and he pointed out that former presidents Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan had still not found their footing at this point in their administrations.

Journalist Bob Woodward also reminded panelists they were only discussing words, and he urged them to continue watching Trump’s actions as president.

“The words matter and the tone matters, and if you try to pull back, the question mark is what is he really going to do?” Woodward said. “There are a series of policy issues, particularly in foreign relations — the Middle East, Russia, China, North Korea — what he is going to do with cybersecurity and so forth. Those are the things that are going to define his presidency, not words.” Scarborough again returned to the normality of Trump and his presidency.

“The normalization of Donald Trump is something that critics have feared,” Scarborough said. “I can tell you a week ago, when he is talking about the press being the enemy of the people, you had a lot of extraordinarily nervous Republicans and Democrats. This was Donald Trump normalizing Donald Trump. Last night, it was nice to be sitting in that chamber again and going, ‘Oh, OK.’ Republicans like this, Democrats hate this, Democrats like this. It was almost normal last night instead of going, ‘OK, after the first terror attack, is he going to try to strip freedoms from Americans? is this a (Steve) Bannon play to crush the press? Is this a Trump play to crush the courts?’ Last night was a normal moment, and that was relief to a lot of Democrats and Republicans in the room.”

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[kentuck]

1. Everybody took an ideological valium...

and things are back to "normal" today.

[cilla4progress]

2. DO NOT NORMALIZE

THIS!!

I had PTSD last night. Certifiable. Couldn't watch but as I checked online I saw what was happening.

As on election night all I could do was crawl into bed and tremble.

I believe this will recur for the rest of my days, when triggered.