On Thursday’s Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough and Mike Brzezinski’s former MSNBC colleague Chris Matthews was on the show to discuss the military operations in Iran, as Mika read Matthews’ Substack article, “State of War,” which called Trump a ‘monarch’ because of his launch of strikes on Iran. The article also dismissed the veterans commemorated at the State of the Union, and suggested Trump had “passed out a monarch’s gifs.”
Matthews’ article first took issue with the honorary military medals presented by Trump to certain service members at the State of the Union and then derived into talk on the Iran strike process. Here’s how Mika read it:
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