Donald Trump, waxing bellicose and unintelligible on national security on "Morning Joe," says that the U.S. might just have to shut down some mosques. From the transcript provided by MSNBC:
Well, you're going to have to watch and study the mosques because a lot of talk is going on at the mosques. And from what I heard in the old days, meaning a while ago, we had great surveillance going on in and around mosques in New York City and I understand our mayor totally cut that out. He totally cut it out. And I don't know if you've brought that up and I'm not sure it a fact, but I heard that under the old regime, we had tremendous surveillance going on in and around the mosques of New York City. And right now, that's been totally cut out.
He doesn't know for sure, he's only heard from some people, that we used to have "great surveillance." He doesn't have any clue if that's actually true, but he's going to go around repeating it anyway. And, of course, if "I were president, we probably wouldn't be in the problems we have right now, because it's incredible." The very existence of a President Trump would mean that there would be no more terrorism. So there's that.
And in the "hard hitting" journalistic style of Joe Scarborough:
SCARBOROUGH: So, would you at least be willing to send 10,000 U.S. troops over there?
TRUMP: Yes, I would, but Joe, I'd engage other countries...
SCARBOROUGH: Well, of course.
Well, of course. Anything you say, Donald.