During a Tuesday morning segment, the Morning Joe panel discussed the latest story about J.D. Vance and cats.
Ever since he was tapped to be Donald Trump's running mate, J.D. Vance has been hurting the ticket with controversies and general weirdness. And again, the Ohio senator is making a big deal over cats.
Vance, who has a history of mocking childless cat ladies, took part in a new GOP conspiracy theory that Haitian migrants are eating cats. The Morning Joe crew addressed the racist messaging with Joe Scarborough beginning:
"This is how things have changed… Now you have JD Vance running around going, ‘They are eating your cats.’ What is this guy’s obsession about cats? First he hates them, then he likes them, then he’s trying to save them. I don’t get it."
Sam Stein then weighed in, "Makes sense if you think about it that way. To your point, yeah, they all have microphones. They all have huge platforms of their own, right? Used to be they’d have to call a press conference or do sit-down interviews to spread lies. Now, in succession, there’s ten official accounts or unofficial accounts associated with the trump campaign that amplifies this completely manufactured… complete lie."
Scarborough closed the segment by remarking:
"The person who knows this the most, the guy who has this singular obsession with cats – first talking about childless cat lady, and now talking about the eating of cats – JD Vance knows better than anybody else the contributions immigrants have made to this country. The immeasurable contributions. Because he worked with them for years in Silicon Valley and got rich doing it. So he knows he’s lying. He knows this is nonsense. He knows he is playing to the lowest common denominator."