Just as the news media missed the boat in predicting the outcome of the 2016 election, their behavior in 2017 have shown they’ve learned absolutely nothing. On Monday’s Morning Joe, the MSNBC panel was flabbergasted that the new ABC News/Washington Post poll found only two percent of President Trump’s voters regret voting for him.

Floored by the “remarkable number,” the liberals and pseudo-Republicans attempted to explain away the number and infer that it was much higher because Trump voters wouldn’t be forthcoming with pollsters.

Co-host Joe Scarborough kicked things off, telling panelist Mark Halperin:

But when I saw in the first poll that I read yesterday morning, I think it was the ABC/Washington Post poll that 96 percent of people who voted for Trump are glad they voted for Trump and two percent are not glad they voted for Trump. If you're Donald Trump, you're saying, okay, I've done pretty damn well to go with my base. People go, yeah, that's enough to beat Hillary. No, the first thing you do in American politics is you hold your base and you win the nomination for your party and then you get a chance to run again. I would think that two percent would have been closer to 10 or 15 percent.

Both Halperin and Scarborough blurted out the word “remarkable” and Halperin fretted that “there’s a tale of two Americans now” as “[t]he people who voted for him still happy with him, giving him a chance, but his numbers, as Mika said, overall are not enough to have sway with Congress or to get things done.”

“[T]he reason I was shocked by that, John Heilemann, it does have an impact if you have a gerrymandered House and you have districts that [are] overwhelmingly Republican. If Donald Trump is getting 96 percent, you know, support from people who supported for him in districts he won by 70 percent, those House Republicans aren’t going to move away from him,” Scarborough replied (even if senators will).

Author and frequent panelist John Heilemann added that this means the President is “not in free fall” and “not collapsing and it's also the number that says Donald Trump can't do any of the large, big, ambitious things that he’d like to do.”

Co-host Mika Brzezinski read from NBC’s own poll and then the ABC poll statistic about how few Trump voters have dumped him. Brzezinski and Scarborough continued to express their amazement:

SCARBOROUGH: Mika, how can that just be two percent? BRZEZINSKI: I’m supri — I mean, just anecdotally we're asking Trump voters just everywhere, they are wavering — SCARBOROUGH: They are wavering. BRZEZINSKI: — but maybe they still support him. Maybe they’re wavering but they still support him.

After more than enough complaining, Scarborough suggested that it probably is high since “[m]aybe they don't want to say to the pollsters” and “it’s a tale of in the first month, we love him” whereas, in his mind, its eroded since then.

The wealthy, current New England resident then hilariously tried to claim he’s personally heard from “a lot of Trump voters that at first month said hell, yeah, we’re with him are gosh, I wish the guy would just focus.”

Heilemann agreed, replying:

But that really is the difference between wavering and abandonment, right? I think a lot — we hear people are concerned, worried, wavering but they’re not yet — they’re not yet the point of Republicans. Yes, supporters of Trump but they’re not yet ready to say I've washed my hands of this guy. He's a failure. They are not there yet.

Here’s the relevant portion of the transcript from MSNBC’s Morning Joe on April 24: