Rick Wilson, a top figure in the so-called Never Trump movement, disgustingly claimed over the weekend that people believe President Donald Trump about the coronavirus dangers “will be going to a lot of funerals.”

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During an interview Sunday on MSNBC’s “AM Joy,” Wilson actually had the audacity to claim that people who trust and follow advice from the president will either die or their loved ones will pass away because of it.

Host Joy Reid said, “I’ve had friends emailing me things they’re getting from people — family members and friends on Facebook saying it’s all a lie, they still believe it. They even believe his pivot isn’t necessarily real. But the danger is real, this keeping away from one another and doing our social distancing only works if everybody does it. If his people don’t believe it and believe the tough coverage is just out to get him rather than trying to save lives, we have a problem.”

Wilson said, “The small number of true believer Trumpers who will not be touched by this, I suspect they will be going to a lot of funerals because they’re going to be the people who helped spread this. We had a Florida legislator Mike Hill, the other day post on Facebook, on Friday afternoon I think, a bunch of guys joking they’re not going to do social distancing, they’re going to go out, blah, blah blah. These people who believe everything Donald Trump says spent seven weeks hearing this is a fake thing, it’s a hoax, the media is out to get him, and this is where science and the Trump reality bubble collide.”

He continued, “Those people that are laughing it off right now are going to be the ones who have a proximate responsibility for the fact this is going to take longer and cost nor and cost more lives than it should have.”

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In what might be the most shocking news of the week, one of President Donald Trump's most hostile critics praised him just days before Wilson's abhorrent comments.

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough offered rare praise for Trump on Tuesday, saying the president has done a good job of handling the coronavirus and deserved praise for his actions.

Scarborough also called on his viewers to help Trump beat the virus and "do everything they can."

"Wwe have to do everything we can do to make sure this president succeeds," Scarborough said.

"One hopes the rest of the media agrees and other liberals so we can unite and defeat this virus. “We only have one president at a time,” he said.

“We are all joined together as a country, fighting an epidemic that could end up — let me say this again, based on the study that got to the White House yesterday — kill more people, kill more Americans than died in World War II, World War I, the Civil War, and Vietnam,” he continued.

He asked all Americans “to work together – I am hopeful that the White House and that the President continues this somber approach.”

Scarborough said:

While this press conference was going on, I got phone calls from several people, saying who is that man at the press conference? The president was sober. He actually did what a president is supposed to do. He delivered the bad news. This was a president even talking about, saying to his son, when asked how it was, he said, it’s bad, it’s bad. But hopefully, we can avoid the worst-case scenarios and bring this in for a landing and have the best-case scenarios. The president is doing what, at least I have said, and I think a lot of other people have said he should be doing from the very beginning, and that is, tell the truth. Give Americans the worst-case scenario. They can handle it. And start from there. We all have to work together. I am hopeful that the White House and that the president continues this somber approach. Because, you know, at the beginning of this administration, when we had a lot of leaders, like, well, your father, Robert Gates, others, all said, we only have one president at a time. We have to do everything we can do to make sure this president succeeds. Well, obviously, this president has made that very difficult over the past three years. I’m hopeful that yesterday was a new beginning, especially as it pertains to this battle that we’re all facing.

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Earlier this month, Scarborough praised for Trump for holding so many press conferences with CDC and health officials to provide updates to the American people.

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“I know a lot of people were slamming the President for what he did,” Trump said, referring to Trump’s initial comments on the virus.

“I think we are better off this morning because he did what he did than had he not gone out at all,” he said.

Scarborough noted that there were ‘little side barbs’ in what Trump said, but praised him for refusing to talk about his recent India trip an instead discussing the outbreak.

“I don’t really want to talk about that. Let’s talk about the virus,” Scarborough said. “Grading on the Trump scale, lower scale, I was very pleased and actually comforted that the President of the United States brought the entire health care team out, and they talked to Americans about this very important situation.”