Joe Scarborough Still Wants To Make 'Trump: The Musical'

It's the Thursday before the Fourth of July and Joe Scarborough, the MSNBC personality, is having a surreal morning. A little more than 90 minutes ago, the President of the United States took to Twitter to hurl a volley of insults at the Morning Joe host (whom he's nicknamed "Psycho Joe") and, far more crudely, co-host and fiancée Mika Brzezinski. President Trump, who'd been friendly with Scarborough for years until their relationship turned sour during the 2016 presidential campaign, has attacked the couple before, but this time, the president's comments were so objectively coarse that congressional leaders from both sides quickly denounced his words.

Scarborough is on the line to discuss his musical side-project, a five-song EP called that hit streaming services last Friday. The former Florida congressman turned talk-show host, who started playing in bands when he