Joe Scarborough impersonates Donald Trump for mock interview with NPR's Steve Inskeep on 'Morning Joe'

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Joe Scarborough engaged his guest Steve Inskeep of NPR on the January 12 episode of 'Morning Joe' on the topic of how to interview former President and current Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.

Toward the beginning of the segment, Inskeep called for "a better approach to the standards" of journalism prevalent in the United States, where whatever candidates say is presented in context.

In response, the host suggested an impromptu exercise where he would pretend to be to be Trump.

“I’m serious about this. I’m Donald Trump, ask me a question about the 2020 election," he told Inskeep, who jumped in on the opportunity.

Joe Scarborough hits the ground running with his Trump impersonation

Although he did not modify his voice, Scarborough had Trump's attitude and tendencies down to a pat.

Inskeep began with a cheeky remark, saying, "Well first, great hair," to which faux Trump replied, "Thank you so much. Thank you so much."

However, things got real very fast, as Inskeep asked his first serious question, "How are you going to handle the chaos that comes along with your approach to governance, and also with some of the policies that you’ve promised?”

“They want order and what you provide and what you left-wing media dupes provide and what Joe Biden provides, that is chaos,” responded Scarborough-Trump.

"They look at the chaos at the border, Joe Biden’s doing that because he knows those people are going to come in he’s going to put them in lines and every swing state they’re going to vote for Joe Biden.”

"What do you think people aren’t stupid? They understand that’s what that’s all about. And you know it too, but you’re all in with Joe Biden," he added.

Commitment to the role

Scarborough took his part seriously, and gave no opening to Inskeep as he tried to take a time out by saying, "Since we’re pretending to do an interview, I’m going to stop you for a second.”

In a manner characteristic of the business mogul, Scarborough took no notice and continued, "How much money have you been paid off by the Biden Administration? You drove in a sports car. You drove in a Maserati – how can you afford that?”

“To be honest, it was a Cooper, NBC paid for it,” replied Inskeep.

Faux Trump was far from done, as he stated, “Are you going to admit that Biden is letting those people fly down so they’ll vote for him?”

The guest did have a comeback this time, telling Scarborough-Trump, "What I’m going to admit is that Joe Biden with all the policies that you have Mr Trump – in this pretend exercise – with all the policies that you disfavor, Joe Biden seems to have figured out how to work the system to get his way which is what you don’t like."

"You’re frustrated he’s got to work the system so well," he added.

As Scarborough continued his rant in character, Inskeep quickly noted that if the interview happened for real, it would not be done live so that Trump's words could be "put into context,” concluding the mock session.