At issue was a recent video released by Trump in which the leading Republican 2024 candidate strongly suggested that the United States is the greatest threat to Western civilization today, not Russia. Morning Joe played a portion of the clip in which Trump said:

Our greatest threat, but the greatest threat to Western civilization today is not Russia. It's probably more than anything else ourselves and some of the horrible USA hating people that represent us. It's the abolition of our national borders. It's the failure to police our own cities. It's the destruction of the rule of law from within. It's the collapse of the nuclear family. And fertility rates like nobody can believe is happening. It's the Marxists who would have us become a godless nation worshiping at the altar of race and gender.

"Blah blah blah," a disgusted Scarborough interrupted before saying, "You know, it's boring to me. What's boring to me is the hatred for America, the hatred from America that you hear spewing from Donald Trump's mouth."