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US journalist Brzezinski calls Trump campaign 'pathetic'

Monday, 20 June 2016 2:47 PM [ Last Update: Friday, 05 August 2016 5:26 PM ]

Presumptive US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks to a crowd of supporters during a campaign rally on June 18, 2016 in Phoenix, Arizona. (AFP photo)

An American author, journalist and television host has denounced presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric as "pathetic".

MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski said on Monday that Trump is talking about trivial issues at a point in the campaign when other candidates would be speaking with foreign policy experts, former politicians and world leaders to carefully convey their message in a better way.

"Instead, he is literally still vomiting out anything he thinks at the tip of his head that he might have seen on TV, and I don't know what channel, recently," she said of Trump.

"It's pathetic, number one. It's sad for the party, it's sad for the country and it's sad for his candidacy, which could have done so much," added Brzezinski, who is the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security adviser for former President Jimmy Carter.

"He could be doing so much better. It is an embarrassment, every day the embarrassment deepens because he just simply refuses to stop playing to the lowest common denominator," Brzezinski’s co-host Joe Scarborough said on the show.

American author, journalist and television host Mika Brzezinski

Muslim women watch as US President Barack Obama speaks at the Islamic Society of Baltimore, in Windsor Mill, Maryland on February 3, 2016. (AFP photo)

They made the remarks after Trump called for racial profiling of Muslims inside the US to combat terrorism.

"Other countries do it. You look at Israel and you look at others, and they do it and they do it successfully," he said.

"I hate the concept of profiling, but we have to start using common sense and we have to use, you know, we have to use our heads. ... We really have to look at profiling. We have to look at is seriously,” he stated.

Trump said France also places mosques under surveillance. "They're doing it in France. In fact, in some instances, they're closing down mosques.”

Civil rights activists and Muslims condemned Trump’s statement, saying that profiling is unconstitutional.

The New York business tycoon previously called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims” entering the United States.

He has also called for a database to track Muslims across the United States, and he has also said that the US would have "absolutely no choice" but to close down mosques.

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