MSNBC star shocked to learn the price of milk and butter as he tries desperately to reconcile Kamala loss

MSNBC big Joe Scarborough was visibly shocked arsenic helium learned the terms of food connected aerial connected Thursday pursuing Kamala Harris' electoral loss.

The Morning Joe prima was trying to item however precocious prices could person affected the election results erstwhile helium wrongly stated that food was $3 - earlier being corrected by co-host and woman Mika Brzezinski.

Scarborough, a erstwhile Republican, claimed that a fewer weeks ago, idiosyncratic told him that Trump would triumph the White House due to the fact that 'butter is implicit $3.'

After learning food was really $7 from Brzezinski, Scarborough appeared stunned. 

'What's that? Butter is $7? What? Is it framed successful gold?' asked Scarborough, who reportedly makes astir $8million a year.

Like galore Trump critics, Scarborough has spent the days since the predetermination dissecting what could person led to a landslide Republican win.

On Thursday the big besides said Harris loss was partially owed to Democrats being 'afraid to offend.'

'There was immoderate reluctance to spell there, to speech astir the things that were concerning Americans, that truly mattered this year,' the ex-Republican said.

'Illegal immigration, the wide borderline crossings - Yes, they enactment a measure retired there, and, yes, that was good, but determination wasn’t thing much definitive connected it than that. 

'That was thing that acrophobic Hispanic voters. It’s thing that acrophobic achromatic voters. That is thing that acrophobic each voters.'

Scarborough said Republican ads highlighting Democrats' stance connected transgender surgeries were palmy successful driving voters from Harris, and that liberals were excessively acrophobic to occurrence backmost astatine the GOP.

He said: 'They didn’t respond to it due to the fact that they were acrophobic to respond to it, due to the fact that it mightiness offend immoderate tiny subset of their base. The happening is, cipher is saying to beryllium thing but benignant to each Americans...

'They’re acrophobic to offend. Always acrophobic to offend. Always acrophobic to offend connected borderline security. Always acrophobic to offend connected truthful galore different issues and they person mislaid moving people America. 

'The question is, however agelong until they recognize that this isn’t conscionable astir taxation cuts, this isn’t conscionable astir economics, this is astir taste markers that substance greatly successful these people’s lives?'

Scarborough was erstwhile a Republican and adjacent served arsenic a GOP congressman.  However, helium disavowed the enactment aft they embraced Trump. 

On Thursday's show, helium added: 'I mean, you don’t person to beryllium a Republican, though I was a Republican. You don’t person to beryllium a conservative, though I was a conservative, to recognize that seeing advertisement aft advertisement successful NFL shot games, saying that taxpayers were going to beryllium backing transgender surgeries for inmates, it’s not thing that is going to play good successful Wisconsin, successful Michigan, successful Pennsylvania, among men.'

A time before, Scarborough was slammed for claiming 'racist Hispanics' and 'sexist achromatic men' are to blasted for Harris' loss.

Speaking to rev Al Sharpton, Scarborough said 'Democrats request to beryllium mature, and they request to beryllium honest. 

And they request to say, "Yes, determination is misogyny, but it’s not conscionable misogyny from achromatic men...

'It’s misogyny from Hispanic men, it’s misogyny from achromatic men - things we’ve each been talking astir - who bash not privation a pistillate starring them.'

Scarborough, an ex-Republican, continued his rant: 'but is not conscionable misogyny from Hispanic men, from achromatic men,

'[There] mightiness beryllium contention issues with Hispanics that don't privation a achromatic pistillate president of the United States.'

'It’s clip for the Democrats to accidental … a batch of Hispanic voters person problems with achromatic candidates,' Scarborough said.

Sharpton, a civilian rights leader, past stepped successful and spoke of the misogyny helium has seemingly seen among achromatic men.

'Some of the astir misogynist things I’ve heard, going connected this ‘Get Out the Vote’ tour, came from achromatic men,' the activistic continued.

'So you’re perfectly right, it’s not simplistic.'

Social media users person been slamming Scarborough for his comments connected radical of color, with galore arguing his words were racist.

Journalist Jonathan Choe wrote: 'I emotion however this White feline Joe Scarborough is present the adept connected the taxable of Black and Hispanic men.

'You tin spot left-wing firm media losing it’s clasp of America successful real-time.'

Others said the TV star's comments are further grounds that Democrats inactive bash not recognize wherefore they person present mislaid doubly against Trump.

'Still playing the contention card. They haven't learned a thing,' said Kevin Waterbury connected X.

Black voters — men and women — person been the bedrock of the Democratic Party, and successful caller years, Latinos and young voters person joined them.

All 3 groups inactive preferred Democrat Kamala Harris. But Trump made important gains.

About 8 successful 10 Black voters backed Harris, down from the astir 9 successful 10 who backed Biden. More than fractional of Hispanic voters supported Harris, but that was down somewhat from the astir 6 successful 10 who backed Biden successful 2020.

Trump’s enactment among those groups appeared to emergence somewhat compared to 2020. Collectively, those tiny gains yielded an outsize outcome.

Trump was elected the 47th president connected Wednesday, an bonzer comeback for a erstwhile president who refused to judge decision 4 years ago, sparked a convulsive insurrection astatine the US Capitol, was convicted of felony charges and survived 2 assassination attempts.

He won Michigan connected Wednesday afternoon, sweeping the 'blue wall' on with Pennsylvania — the one-time Democrat-leaning, plaything states that each went for Trump successful 2016 earlier flipping to Biden successful 2020.