MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough came out swinging against MAGA Wednesday morning, castigating the Trump administration for its “lies” and taking pleasure in its immigration enforcement “cruelty.” The Morning Joe co-host then lashed out at the President’s supporters for, apparently, not taking the teachings of Jesus to heart. The morning program spent some time on a spat between the White House and pop artist Sabrina Carpenter, who rebuked the administration for using one of her songs in an immigration video. Co-host Mika Brzezinski started to read through the White House’s response when Scarborough got fed up and interrupted her: BRZEZINSKI: White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson responded with a statement referencing Carter's [sic] lyrics, writing, “Here's a Short ‘n Sweet message for Sabrina Carpenter: we won't apologize for deporting dangerous criminal illegal” — SCARBOROUGH: You know, I’m just — I'm tired of the lies — [Crosstalk] BRZEZINSKI: — “murderers, rapists, and pedophiles from our country.” SCARBOROUGH: Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. We're not gonna read the lies.     Oof. Wasn’t even willing to listen to both sides of the story. Interestingly, Brzezinski returned the favor by interrupting Scarborough right before he said… something: SCARBOROUGH: You know, there — they are getting students, and Jacob — BRZEZINSKI: Uppp! SCARBOROUGH: Am I not supposed to say this just yet? BRZEZINSKI: Well, just hang on, okay? It’s not clear who exactly Scarborough was about to name-drop, but it could’ve been MS NOW political and national correspondent Jacob Soboroff, who has been covering immigration for the network. Perhaps Scarborough nearly leaked a big scoop that was still under wraps! Scarborough went on to accuse Trump administration of actually enjoying violent raids: “It's savage. The savagery, the cruelty. And it's something they celebrate. They love this. They think, inside the White House, they — I mean, Donald Trump has said before he doesn't want to see mothers ripped from the arms of children, but that's exactly what they're doing tenfold compared to the first term.” Co-host Jonathan Lemire concurred with the characterization, “… you're right, it's trolling. It is government by trolling. The idea of putting out these slick videos they know are going to get a reaction, that are reveling in the cruelty of the moment.” Not too much later, after making an homage to the “extraordinarily heroic” Pope (very briefly this time), Scarborough made his pastoral debut lecturing the American public on how to treat foreigners: “And again, you just can't keep going back to the story of the Good Samaritan enough, where Jesus says, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ They ask, ‘Who's my neighbor?’ And he picks the most despised foreigner, the most despised foreigner, the Samaritan to say, ‘That's your neighbor, and that's who you love, and that's who is — who will be first in the Kingdom of God.’” In any other context, one might think Scarborough had been ordained and commissioned to administer some conviction in hearts and minds. Alas, what we got was, frankly, uncouth: Because make no mistake, read the Bible. Read Jesus's words. Don't go to Leviticus. Read Jesus's words. Don't go to Nahum. Read Jesus's word. Don't go back to Exodus. Read Jesus's words and it could not be any more clear. These people who continue to support these policies are literally doing the opposite of what Jesus Christ said in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Wooaahhhh, calm down, buddy. What about all the crime, fraud, waste and abuse incurred by Biden’s mass-immigration policy? Ignoring that wouldn’t be loving your domestic neighbor. Weren’t you supposed to be “pretty conservative” on the border? The transcript is below. Click "expand" read: MS NOW’s Morning Joe December 3, 2025 6:47:12 a.m. EST MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Well, first it was Taylor, — JOE SCARBOROUGH: Yeah. BRZEZINSKI: — and now it's Sabrina. Sabrina Carpenter, the singer becoming the latest pop superstar to get into a feud with the Trump White House. The fight began with Carpenter slamming the administration for using one of her songs in a video applauding ICE raids. SCARBOROUGH: That's probably not — BRZEZINSKI: I wouldn't want that. SCARBOROUGH: — good branding. Yeah. BRZEZINSKI: The clip posted by the official White House X account, Twitter account, shows a video montage of ICE officers chasing and handcuffing people to a remix of Carpenter's song, “Juno.” The post includes text reading, “Bye-bye,” with a heart eyes emoji. This is so sick. SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, the cruelty is really — BRZEZINSKI: I am sorry. SCARBOROUGH: — is staggering. BRZEZINSKI: This is so sick. The singer responded with a video — a post of her own, writing, “this video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson responded with a statement referencing Carter's [sic] lyrics, writing, “Here's a Short ‘n Sweet message for Sabrina Carpenter: we won't apologize for deporting dangerous criminal illegal” — SCARBOROUGH: You know, I’m just — I'm tired of the lies — [Crosstalk] BRZEZINSKI: — “murderers, rapists, and pedophiles from our country.” SCARBOROUGH: Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. We're not gonna read the lies. You know, there — they are getting students, and Jacob — BRZEZINSKI: Uppp! SCARBOROUGH: Am I not supposed to say this just yet? BRZEZINSKI: Well, just hang on, okay? SCARBOROUGH: They are — ICE is getting innocent people that are going to see their family. They are busting down, like, kindergartens and pulling out kindergarten teachers. They're throwing mothers to the ground. It's savage. The savagery, the cruelty. And it's something they celebrate. They love this. They think, inside the White House, they — I mean, Donald Trump has said before he doesn't want to see mothers ripped from the arms of children, but that's exactly — BRZEZINSKI: That’s been — SCARBOROUGH: — what they're doing tenfold compared to the first term. It's why he's upside down on immigration, an issue that should be his strongest because the southern border is shut down. JONATHAN LEMIRE: Yeah. And as much as Trump has said he doesn't want that, but at the same time, he sat down with 60 Minutes a month ago and was told — he was asked about immigration and his sinking poll numbers, saying, “Well, we have to go harder. We have to go harder with the deportation,” doubling down on this. But you're right, it's trolling. It is government by trolling. The idea of putting out these slick videos they know are going to get a reaction, that are reveling in the cruelty of the moment. And not just Sabrina Carpenter, but a lot of Americans have said, “We don’t want this. This isn’t what we want. We’re disgusted by this.” (…) 6:51:39 a.m. EST SCARBOROUGH: David, one church institution that's showing compassion is the Catholic Church. The Pope has been extraordinarily heroic and — well, in doing his job. I mean, he's quoting Jesus. He's quoting the most obvious parts of the red letters. Which, of course leads to the question, how do so many people who are — who grew up in our churches, who grew up as Baptists like me across the deep south, how are so many people turning a blind eye not only to the savagery here, but also to a President they voted for twice calling God's children — let's make no mistake of this, Jesus was very clear. We're all God's children. And in fact, when he talks about the last being first and the first being last, well, you could probably put billionaire leaders on one side of that and Somali immigrants on the other. When he calls Somalis, quote, “human garbage,” that is something — again, for people who didn't grow up in the Baptist church, who didn't grow up reading the red letters, didn't grow up in the Gospels, didn't grow up like you and me, you know, reading about this in, you know, Sunday school and training union. I mean, the thing is, when you get into the Gospels, they're not so many rules, people like to talk about rules, the commandment is, just time and time again, blessed are the merciful for they shall be shown mercy. Like, what you do to the least of these among me, you do to me, myself. And again, you just can't keep going back to the story of the Good Samaritan enough, where Jesus says, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” They ask, “Who's my neighbor?” And he picks the most despised foreigner, the most despised foreigner, the Samaritan to say, “That's your neighbor, and that's who you love, and that's who is — who will be first in the Kingdom of God.” So again, a very long windup to ask this question. How have these people been so programed to forget every single thing they were taught in church, in Sunday school, in training union on Wednesday night Bible studies, like, how have they been so programed that they completely put this political, I don't even know what to call it, over the teachings of Jesus Christ? Because make no mistake, read the Bible. Read Jesus's words. Don't go to Leviticus. Read Jesus's words. Don't go to Nahum. Read Jesus's word. Don't go back to Exodus. Read Jesus's words and it could not be any more clear. These people who continue to support these policies are literally doing the opposite of what Jesus Christ said in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.