MSNBC host Joe Scarborough described last night’s CNN town hall with former President Donald Trump as “a disgraceful performance” that was “as chilling as anything I’ve seen on television since January 6.” Scarborough also criticized Trump supporters for “laughing it up” in response to a sexual assault and a police officer being referred to as a hooligan.

“What we saw last night was a propagandist, and it was a propagandist spewing lies repeatedly over and over and over again, and an audience, an American audience laughing it up,” said Scarborough. “This isn’t Putin’s Russia. This is Trump’s slice of America. What I saw last night at least was as chilling as anything I’ve seen on television since January the 6th.”

SCARBOROUGH: No surprises. It was a disgraceful performance.

I’m constantly telling people not to catastrophize over Trump, that he is actually going to lose because he keeps drilling down deeper and deeper into his base.

But it is — it is — I can’t believe I’m going to use catastrophizing language here, but it was just disgraceful on every level. It showed — I wouldn’t say it’s dangerous for democracy because we passed that a long time ago, but it showed the corrosive effects of Trumpism over eight years.

And I’ve got to say, the most shocking part was an audience who cheered on a president who tried to overturn American democracy, an audience that mocked and ridiculed the woman who a jury of her peers, Donald Trump’s peers, found had been sexually assaulted.

Those Americans there last night turned that into a punch line, laughed and dismissed cops getting the shit kicked out of them on January the 6th, beaten up over and over again. Calling a cop a thug, who actually was trying to stop people from the House floor from being killed.

I could go — I just could go on and on. Basically saying he would turn over Ukraine to Vladimir Putin. It just — it was — Jon Meacham, on every front, you could go piece by piece by piece to talk about how breathtakingly dangerous what we saw was last night, this virus of lies that’s been loosened on the American people.

What we saw last night was –it was a propagandist, and it was a propagandist spewing lies repeatedly over and over and over again, and an audience, an American audience laughing it up. This isn’t Putin’s Russia. This is Trump’s slice of America. What I saw last night at least was as chilling as anything I’ve seen on television since January the 6th.