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Morning Joe

President Trump Calls Iran Strikes a ‘Love Tap’

Morning Joe

Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, MS NOW, Willie Geist

Washington, Congress, Government, Politics, President, Scarboro, Election, Brezinski, Ms Now, News, Issues, Giest, Campaign

3.98.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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President Trump Calls Iran Strikes a ‘Love Tap’

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0:00.0

It's Mother's Day.

0:01.3

And get this, I saw that Americans are expected to spend a record $38 billion.

0:07.2

$38 billion.

0:08.8

And if you combine that with what's spent on Father's Day, that's $38 billion.

0:16.1

All right, Jimmy Fallon helping us all remember that Mother's Day is this Sunday,

0:22.9

and we have a lot to get to on this Friday morning.

0:25.3

President Trump claims the ceasefire is still holding despite U.S. and Iranian forces exchanging fire yesterday.

0:32.8

Meanwhile, the Washington Post has new reporting that Iran is in much better shape than the Trump administration is publicly saying, with intelligence assessments that the country could sustain the conflict for months.

0:48.2

Also ahead, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is saying that he doesn't see the problem if ICE agents patrolled polling

0:57.0

places this fall. We'll play for you those comments. And we'll show you how Republicans were

1:02.8

talking about gas prices during the Biden administration when the price at the pump was a dollar

1:09.1

less than what Americans are paying right now.

1:14.0

With us, we have the co-host of our 9 a.m. hour, staff writer at the Atlantic, Jonathan Lemire.

1:19.4

MSNAN, National Affairs analyst John Heilman.

1:22.3

He's partner in chief political columnist at Puck.

1:25.4

Editor at the insider, Michael Weiss, and defense editor at the economist Shashank Joshi.

1:32.5

Good to have you all on board with us on this Friday morning.

1:35.6

Joe, where do we begin?

1:37.9

Well, I'm very proud.

1:40.3

I wanted to show Lemire what I've done.

1:42.8

Do you have your iPad with you? Me? The bunny?

1:47.0

Where you have the bunnies on the back? Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, it's so cute. And so she drew that,

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