MSNBC's Morning Joe pays homage to Milwaukee after Trump's comment – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Next month all the political eyes will be on Milwaukee for the 2024 Republican National Convention.
But the city is getting extra attention this week after the GOP’s presumed 2024 presidential nominee, Donald Trump, reportedly called Milwaukee “a horrible city” in a meeting with House Republicans on Capitol Hill.
That comment has sparked a slew of reactions from late-night talk shows to social media and Republicans trying to defend the former president while debating the context. Others locally, like Gov. Tony Evers and Mayor Cavalier Johnson, stood up for Milwaukee.
MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Friday didn’t want to just talk about how great Milwaukee is. It wanted to show its viewers a montage of Milwaukee in its past and present glory.
The talk show highlighted clips of the TV show “Laverne & Shirley,” movie “Wayne’s World,” the Milwaukee Bucks’ two NBA championships and when the Milwaukee Brewers clinched their first and only World Series berth in 1982, among other highlights.
The “Laverne & Shirley” sitcom, which ran from the mid-1970s to early 1980s, was based in Milwaukee and featured its two main characters working in the fictitious Shotz Brewery in late 1950s. The show was a spinoff from “Happy Days,” another show set in Milwaukee.
The 1990s movie “Wayne’s World” had a memorable clip in the “Morning Joe” montage where Wayne and Garth pay a visit to rock singer Alice Cooper in Milwaukee.
Cooper told the two that he’s “a regular visitor here, but Milwaukee has certainly had its share of visitors.”
And the clip also shows Cooper in the movie saying “actually it’s pronounced “mill-e-wah-que,” which is Algonquin for “the good land.”
The “Morning Joe” montage closed with a spectacular sunrise of Lake Michigan and showcased the downtown skyline.
That morning beer the hosts had was probably pretty spectacular, too.
They had a sip of “Milwaukee’s Best Ice” during the segment to celebrate “Brew City.”
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