Scarborough is "embarrassed" by Republican replies to Obama's Cheesecake Factory joke

Morning Joe moves past the joke itself to the midterm map, with Jennifer Palmieri on Michigan and David Drucker on what Ohio voters are saying.

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'I'm EMBARRASSED for them': Joe SLAMS GOP reaction to Obama's jabs at Trump

Barack Obama's line about the White House has already drawn replies from the president and his team. On Morning Joe, the panel took up a different question: how well Republicans were handling the joke.

The segment, MS NOW's most watched new upload since yesterday with about half a million views, replays Obama at an Ohio rally. He blames the administration for higher costs ("Everything is more expensive now") and ties the rise in oil prices to the war with Iran. Then comes the line about the gold decor: "He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory."

Jonathan Lemire and Joe Scarborough mock the Republican responses that followed. "I'm embarrassed for them," says Scarborough, a former Republican congressman from Florida. The video's description says he called the reaction "stupid and desperate." The same morning, Jen Psaki's segments on the channel took aim at Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's own Cheesecake Factory appearance.

The broadcast opens on Michigan, with an on-screen banner describing Trump's attacks on Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed as anti-Islamic rhetoric. Jennifer Palmieri, Obama's former White House communications director, argues that Trump's rallies there could hurt his party's candidates in close races. Scarborough turns to Mike Rogers, the former FBI agent and congressman who is the Republican nominee, after his Meet the Press appearance: "His views are incompatible with most Michigan voters."

The final word goes to Bloomberg Opinion columnist David Drucker. He looks at favorability ratings for Senator Jon Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee for governor, and at how campaign ads could shape Ohio's Senate race. A banner on screen counts eight days to the midterms.

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The segment led MS NOW's new uploads with about half a million views in its first 16 hours.

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