Scarborough just can’t deal with Sen. Joni Ernst’s graveyard apology video

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough has serious issues with Senator Joni Ernst’s graveyard apology video.

It all started with Ernst being asked about reported cuts to Medicaid under President Donald Trump’s tax bill. The town hall became rowdy when she quipped that “we’re all going to die” in response to someone in the audience claiming that “people will die” if such cuts are made.

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Residents of Iowa pleaded with their Senator about Medicaid cuts, telling her “people are going to die.”

Join Ernst in response: “well we all are going to die.” pic.twitter.com/fE9DDdkR2C

— Aaron Parnas (@AaronParnas) May 30, 2025

The backlash was swift, but Ernst wasn’t about to let it get to her. She posted an “apology” video from a graveyard.

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If Joni Ernst thinks it’s clever to apologize for dissing her constituents by dissing her constituents – she’s in for a rude awakening in 2026. Time to turn her Senate seat blue. You’ve got this Iowa.pic.twitter.com/42ClGHCPkx

— anyone_want_chips (@anyonewantchips) June 1, 2025

“I made an incorrect assumption that everyone in the auditorium understood that yes, we are all going to perish from this Earth. So I apologize. And I’m really, really glad that I did not have to bring up the subject of the tooth fairy as well,” she said, encouraging people to “embrace my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ” if they want to see “eternal and everlasting life.”

Scarborough ranted about her comments on Monday’s episode of Morning Joe:

“When Joni Ernst is asked what she’s going to do about the fact that maybe 40% of children in the state of Iowa, her state, are going to be impacted by Medicaid cuts, and about 50% of seniors that are in nursing homes in her state are going to be impacted by these cuts. Her response is: ‘Well, we’re all going to die anyway.’ And then she makes a joke about it in the graveyard,” he seethed.

“This is, I’m sure, Webster’s dictionary wants to kind of use video in the future; put that next to ‘clueless,’ because that’s what these Republicans are right now. They’re clueless. They’re savaging health care in their own districts, in their own states, and Joni Ernst feels confident enough not only to say: ‘Well, you’re going to die anyway,’ then she feels confident enough that she can do whatever she wants to do, go into a graveyard and make jokes about how everybody’s going to die anyway,” he continued.

“Think about how she burst onto the scene. She was going to be the person who was going to go after pork barrel spending and all the squealing and all that other stuff. And so that’s how she starts. And this is where she comes to, which is again, making jokes about senior citizens who are going to have their health care gutted, about children in her state going to have their health care gutted. And her response is, we can all die anyway.”

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Sierra Marlee is a millennial whose hunger for the truth in a world of fake news has led her to BizPac Review.

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