Joe Scarborough Rants Against Military Bases Named After Confederate ‘Losers’ After Trump’s ‘Fort Al Sharpton’ Jibe

Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough went off on military bases named after Confederate “losers” during a rant in defense of MSNBC regular Reverend Al Sharpton Monday addressed to former President Donald Trump , who repeated his “Fort Al Sharpton” jibe during a weekend rally.

The dig goes back to a 2020 clash, when the former president mocked those seeking to rename Fort Bragg, currently named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg . At the time, Trump joked that he’d name it after Sharpton, whose civil rights organization, the National Action Network, has pushed in the past for the renaming of forts that honor Confederate Army figures.

The former president revived the name on Saturday to again poke fun at Sharpton, who last week also dismissed the idea that Trump’s presidency had helped the black community.

Morning Joe showed the clip from the rally. In it, Trump said: “We saved the world from those forts, and now they decide to take the names off. Wait until you see ultimately what happens with those names. I call it a transition, like transitioning. They have a transition name before they name it. The Reverend Al Sharpton fort… Fort Al Sharpton. Now you can just imagine. But this is a transition. They have done a couple of transitions. These people… they are sick.”

Scarborough, however, was having none of it. The host claimed that the Republican nominee was “stuck in the mid 1800s” and recommended he watch the famous opening speech of 1970 film Patton to see how Americans “want winners.”

Sick? They are sick! No. They don’t like losers. They don’t like losers, Donald. I know you like losers. You like losing. You’ve lost seven years in a row. I don’t know if you know, but because of you, your party lost in 2017, your party lost in 2018, your party lost in 2019, your party lost in 2020, your party lost in 2021, your party lost in 2022, your party lost in 2023. If the past is prologue your party is going to lose in 2024.

Yeah, southerners like myself, we don’t really like naming forts after losers. That is not transitioning. We want to name forts after American patriots who win wars. Donald, maybe you should see the beginning of Patton, where George C. Scott stands in front of an American flag and says Americans don’t want and won’t abide losers. They want winners.

So, yeah, we don’t want some loser who tried to overthrow the federal government so slavery could continue another hundred years or so. We like winners. I say that as a southerner, okay? A little worried about Alabama crimson tide. Will we be as good as [football coach Nick Saban]? I don’t know. If he is not, they will fire him. Because that is how we think in the south. That’s how we think in America.

You want to name forts after losers, after Confederate soldiers and generals? Rev Al I’ll take a Fort Sharpton. It sounds nice! It sounds nice about America and a military moving toward a more perfect union and not stuck in its slave holding past like poor Donald there wants us to be stuck in the mid 1800s.

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