President-elect Donald Trump Donald John TrumpBarr criticizes DOJ in speech declaring all agency power 'is invested in the attorney general' Military leaders asked about using heat ray on protesters outside White House: report Powell warns failure to reach COVID-19 deal could 'scar and damage' economy MORE’s many controversies and arguments, especially those that unfold on Twitter, are “exhausting the American people” before he even gets into office, “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough said on Tuesday.

“He’s exhausting the American public before the day he’s sworn into power as president of the United States. And he’s used the time that other presidents have used to see their poll numbers go up — he’s had his drop pretty dramatically among independents.”

In the past few weeks, the president-elect has managed to throw himself into chaotic confrontations with the United Nations, China, the European Union and Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), among others, Scarborough said. He compared Trump’s controversies to show-business overexposure, saying that people would eventually tune out and stop listening to him out of exhaustion.

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“When you exhaust somebody everyday, eventually they turn you off,” Scarborough said. “And they always turn — even the best communicators — off. The American people turned Ronald Reagan off by the fall of 1986.”

Trump’s tweets have been a source of controversy for the president-elect, most recently when Trump attacked Lewis, a civil rights icon, over his boycott of Trump's inauguration. Lewis had previously said that Trump is not a “legitimate president.”

But Scarborough said that was only one of a number of issues Trump has created or made worse, and it has become a challenge to keep up with his various disputes.

“Why are you making the American people and the world sort through word salad every single day?”