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Joe Scarborough Says Bill Clinton ‘Obviously’ Has Parkinson’s (But He Doesn't)
Joe Scarborough has apparently added neurology to his résumé.
On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, during a discussion of Bill Clinton’s congressional testimony, Scarborough declared that Bill Clinton was “obviously suffering through Parkinson’s.”
Not “appears to.” Not “might be.” “Obviously.”
Scarborough went further, criticizing lawmakers for “making a guy who’s almost 80 with Parkinson’s disease sit there for how many hours.”
Clinton, however, has never been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
The former president has previously addressed speculation about his hand tremor, saying he underwent testing for Parkinson’s and was relieved when the results were negative. Physicians have attributed the tremor to normal aging rather than a degenerative neurological disorder.
Later in the segment, Scarborough acknowledged: “I said he had Parkinson’s disease. There is — there’s been some question about that through the years.” That was the entirety of Scarborough's clarification. Scarborough did not retract the claim.
Joe Scarborough:
"Bill Clinton OBVIOUSLY has Parkinson's."
Walks it back weakly: "Been some question" about that. pic.twitter.com/SFp7KSM3P4
— Mark Finkelstein (@markfinkelstein) March 3, 2026
Scarborough’s confident on-air medical pronouncements recall his 2024 insistence that President Biden was “the best Biden ever — and f-you if you don’t believe it.” Three months later came Biden’s disastrous “we finally beat Medicare” debate performance.
The following morning on Morning Joe, Scarborough suggested it was time for Democrats to tell Biden it was over, and urged the president to drop out of the race.
Here's the transcript.
MS NOW
Morning Joe
3/3/26
6:02 am ET
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Hillary Clinton so humiliated them, so owned them, that if you go on X, you will even have people that have loathed the Clintons their entire career saying, um, listen, guys, I don't want to be the skunk at the party, but I agree with Hillary. It was it was really that bad.
And then, and then, there was the scene of an aging Bill Clinton, obviously suffering through Parkinson's, being held there for hour after hour after hour. I mean, again, it just, and I just sat there thinking, this guy has not been indicted by a grand jury. You all are doing something to an ex-president that nobody's ever done before, that hasn't been indicted by a grand jury. Donald Trump was.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: And the president is [inaudible.]
SCARBOROUGH: And you're doing this to a president in the party you hate, who hasn't been President of the United States for 25 years. And you're making a guy who's almost 80 with Parkinson's disease sit there for how many hours, Willie? It was it was it was it was it was savage. It really was.
. . .
And, you know, I said he had Parkinson's disease. There is, there's been some question about that through the years.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: But you just notice a term, you just see the age, and he also having him sit there for hours and hours and he kept repeatedly saying: no, yes.
Okay, the precedent has been set. They sat down, they showed up. So who's next? Because there's a lot of people who are mentioned in the Epstein files who really should be doing the same thing. And Hillary Clinton probably didn't need to be called for this deposition, but she showed up.