Morning Joe's take on Trump's bizarre Cabinet meeting: 'Sick,' 'un-American,' and 'autocratic'

Morning Joe's critique of Trump's Cabinet meeting.
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The first word that came to Morning Joe co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough's minds after watching a tape of President Trump's Cabinet meeting Monday? "Sick."

"That was the most sick, shameful, pathetic, un-American, autocratic display," Scarborough said, referring to the bizarre moment in the administration's first Cabinet meeting in which Trump's staff took turns saying nice things about the president. "I will tell you if I were ever in a meeting and people did that to me, I would say shut up, and I would fire you."

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