of MSNBC who in the morning host Joe Scarborough He is going viral for his shock after learning the price of butter on the show from his wife and co-host Mike Brzezinski. “A few weeks ago … somebody who was going to vote for Kamala Harris came up to me and said, ‘Oh my God, Trump is going to win. I asked why. ‘I go to the grocery store and butter is over $3,'” said the former Florida congressman.
“I laughed and I said well it’s kind of a downer, I said it to myself,” Scarborough said and added to the person, he just said, “It’s getting better.” It was then that her co-host interrupted and added that butter is actually $7.
“Butter is $7…what, is it framed in gold?” Scarborough was shocked. “It’s seven bucks … it depends on where you go,” Brzezinski added. A chart showing NBC exit poll data showed that 31 percent of Americans say their economic situation is excellent and 68 percent feel it is poor.
“If you look at the cost of groceries, if you look at the cost of gas, if you look at the price of things compared to four years ago, it was a very simple answer for working-class Americans. Things didn’t cost that much,” Scarborough said.
Scarborough is a former Republican and served as a GOP congressman but left politics after the party embraced Donald Trump. On the show, he was dissecting what could have happened for Republicans to win in a landslide.
“I mean, you don’t have to be a Republican even though I’m a Republican. You don’t have to be a conservative to understand, watching ad after ad at NFL football games, even though I’m a conservative. Taxpayers were going to fund transgender surgeries for prisoners, it’s in Wisconsin, it’s Michigan. , in Pennsylvania, is not something that plays well among men.,” Scarborough said.