‘Morning Joe’ Crew Howl at Trump’s Debate Performance

MSNBC’s Morning Joe crew were left in hysterics Wednesday morning over Donald Trump’s barking-mad claim in the presidential debate that immigrants are eating people’s dogs.

The show aired a montage of some of the most iconic moments in history from previous debates, including Ronald Reagan’s “there you go again” line used against Jimmy Carter in 1980 and Lloyd Bentsen’s 1988 quip assuring Dan Quayle that he was “no Jack Kennedy.” The compilation ended with Trump saying: “In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs! The people that came in, they’re eating the cats!”

Trump was talking about a baseless rumor that went viral this week about Haitian migrants in Springfield eating pets and other animals, including ducks and geese. When ABC News moderator David Muir told Trump during the debate that city officials had denied the rumors, the former president insisted he’d seen “people on television saying ‘my dog was taken and used for food.’”

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