WATCH: Joe Scarborough Still Baffled By Trump’s Win Days Later

MSNBC viewers found out on Thursday that Joe Scarborough probably doesn’t do the grocery shopping in his household.

The “Morning Joe” host continued his meditation on the results of Tuesday’s election by calling it “reductive” of one voter he spoke with to be afraid for Vice President Kamala Harris’s chances because the cost of butter has gone up. “I want to talk about the economy for a second. Three weeks ago, somebody who was going to be voting for Kamala Harris came up to me and said, ‘Oh, my God, Trump’s going to win.’ I go, ‘Why is that?’ He goes. ‘I just, I went to the grocery store. Butter is over three dollars.'”

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“I kind of laughed,” Scarborough admitted, “and I said well that’s kind of reductive, isn’t it? I said it to myself, but to him I smiled and I said good point!” A donut chart overlayed the screen showing 68% of voters in the run-up to the election called the economy “not so good” or “poor.” But before Scarborough went much further, his wife Mika Brzezinski had enough. “Seven dollars,” she said, butting in.

“But, uh, everything I’m hearing after the election– what was that?” he stopped. “I’m just saying, it’s seven dollars,” his wife and co-host replied.

“Butter is seven dollars?” he asked incredulously. “What? Is it framed in gold?” A forlorn Brzezinski looked embarrassed by how powerfully out of touch her husband appeared next to her. “Anywhere you go,” she shrugged.

But Scarborough, who in his own mind has never lost a competition or argument since retiring from Congress in 2001, soldiered on. “Okay, but… uh… well, yeah, okay well. My point is this, Willie: the rent is too damn high, and [Trump] is saying the cost of butter is way damn too high. And I thought it was a bit reductive. It ended up being just the point that if you look at the cost of groceries, if you look at the cost of gas, if you look at the cost of things compared to four years ago it was a very simple answer for working-class Americans — things just cost too much.”

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The schadenfreude of watching Scarborough eating humble pie is tempered by the bitter truth of Americans’ grocery bills which President-elect Trump has promised to lower through a variety of tariffs and tax reductions. Before Tuesday, the former Republican congressman was cheering from the sidelines as Harris promised to implement federal price-gouging measures to prevent the cost of butter and other goods from going above her preferred ceiling. Trump was quick to condemn the “communistic” policy as vapid and devoid of legislative reality while Americans, feeling that Harris had already failed to lower prices after nearly four years in the White House, stopped believing the empty rhetoric.

Scarborough’s unwanted moment of reflection comes one day after he blamed Black and Hispanic men for voting for President-elect Trump based on “racist” and “misogynist” views against Harris, a belief trumpeted by “The View” host Sunny Hostin later in the day. They and other liberal talking heads will spend the next several months coming to grips with why Harris failed to do better than Biden in any single part of the U.S. compared to four years ago.

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