Joe Scarborough says Trump ‘has his guy sitting in the speaker’s chair’

News anchor Joe Scarborough revealed his pessimism about Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) as speaker.

Scarborough lamented Johnson’s seemingly close relationship with former President Donald Trump in Friday’s episode of Morning Joe. The host and former House member has long criticized Trump during his presidential term and afterward.

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“Donald Trump has his guy,” Scarborough said. “He has the anti-democracy guy sitting in the speaker’s chair.”

Scarborough went on to call Johnson “Ken Paxton’s boy in the House” as a way to prove that Johnson “led” the faction that denied the results of the 2020 election.

This segment followed Scarborough’s discussion on the mass shooting in Maine, where a suspected gunman in Lewiston killed 18 and injured 13. Scarborough expressed his desire for some legislation surrounding gun control.

“And I’ve gotta say, Republicans talk like such losers when this problem comes up. ‘Oh, there’s nothing we can do. There’s nothing we can do.’ Yeah, there is. There is something you can do,” Scarborough said. “You’ve got to go in, and you’ve got to fix it.”

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Johnson was the fourth speaker nominee but only the second to make it to an election, and he rose to the position about three weeks after eight Republicans joined all House Democrats in ousting former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from the position. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) after three votes could not reach the number needed to be elected even with Trump’s endorsement and the endorsement of most of the eight who had voted against McCarthy.

This is the first time a representative from Louisiana has headed the House.