MSNBC star shocked to learn the price of milk and butter as he tries desperately to reconcile Kamala loss

MSNBC host Joe Scarborough was visibly shocked as he learned the price of milk and butter on air on Thursday following Kamala Harris ' electoral loss.

The Morning Joe star was trying to highlight how high prices could have affected the election results when he wrongly stated that butter was $3 - before being corrected by co-host and wife Mika Brzezinski.

Scarborough, a former Republican, claimed that a few weeks ago, someone told him that Trump would win the White House because 'butter is over $3.'

After learning eggs were actually $7 from Brzezinski, Scarborough appeared stunned.

'What's that? Butter is $7? What? Is it framed in gold?' asked Scarborough, who reportedly makes about $8million a year.

Like many Trump critics, Scarborough has spent the days since the election dissecting what could have led to a landslide Republican win.

On Thursday he also said Harris loss was partly due to Democrats being 'afraid to offend.'

'There was some reluctance to go there, to talk about the things that were concerning Americans, that really mattered this year,' the ex-Republican said.

'Illegal immigration, the mass border crossings - Yes, they put a bill out there, and, yes, that was good, but there wasn't anything more definitive on it than that.

'That was something that concerned Hispanic voters. It's something that concerned black voters. That is something that concerned all voters.'

Scarborough said Republican ads highlighting Democrats' stance on gender-affirming care were successful in driving voters from Harris, and that liberals were too afraid to fire back at the GOP .

He said: 'They didn't respond to it because they were afraid to respond to it, because it might offend some small subset of their base. The thing is, nobody is saying to be anything but kind to all Americans...

'They're afraid to offend. Always afraid to offend. Always afraid to offend on border security. Always afraid to offend on so many other issues and they have lost working class America.

'The question is, how long until they understand that this isn't just about tax cuts, this isn't just about economics, this is about cultural markers that matter greatly in these people's lives?'

Scarborough was once a Republican and even served as a GOP congressman. However, he disavowed the party after they embraced Trump.

On Thursday's show, he added: 'I mean, you don't have to be a Republican, though I was a Republican. You don't have to be a conservative, though I was a conservative, to understand that seeing ad after ad in NFL football games, saying that taxpayers were going to be funding transgender surgeries for inmates, it's not something that is going to play well in Wisconsin, in Michigan, in Pennsylvania, among men.'

A day before, Scarborough was slammed for claiming 'racist Hispanics' and 'sexist black men' are to blame for Harris' loss.

Speaking to rev Al Sharpton, Scarborough said 'Democrats need to be mature, and they need to be honest.

And they need to say, "Yes, there is misogyny, but it's not just misogyny from white men...

'It's misogyny from Hispanic men, it's misogyny from black men - things we've all been talking about - who do not want a woman leading them.'

Scarborough, an ex-Republican, continued his rant: 'but is not just misogyny from Hispanic men, from black men,

'[There] might be race issues with Hispanics that don't want a black woman president of the United States.'

'It's time for the Democrats to say ... a lot of Hispanic voters have problems with black candidates,' Scarborough said.

Sharpton, a civil rights leader, then stepped in and spoke of the misogyny he has apparently seen among black men.

'Some of the most misogynist things I've heard, going on this 'Get Out the Vote' tour, came from black men,' the activist continued.

'So you're absolutely right, it's not simplistic.'

Social media users have been slamming Scarborough for his comments on people of color, with many arguing his words were racist.

Journalist Jonathan Choe wrote: 'I love how this White guy Joe Scarborough is now the expert on the topic of Black and Hispanic men.

'You can see left-wing corporate media losing it's hold of America in real-time.'

Others said the TV star's comments are further evidence that Democrats still do not understand why they have now lost twice against Trump.

'Still playing the race card. They haven't learned a thing,' said Kevin Waterbury on X.

Black voters — men and women — have been the bedrock of the Democratic Party, and in recent years, Latinos and young voters have joined them.

All three groups still preferred Democrat Kamala Harris. But Trump made significant gains.

About 8 in 10 Black voters backed Harris, down from the roughly 9 in 10 who backed Biden. More than half of Hispanic voters supported Harris, but that was down slightly from the roughly 6 in 10 who backed Biden in 2020.

Trump's support among those groups appeared to rise slightly compared to 2020. Collectively, those small gains yielded an outsize outcome.

Trump was elected the 47th president on Wednesday, an extraordinary comeback for a former president who refused to accept defeat four years ago, sparked a violent insurrection at the US Capitol, was convicted of felony charges and survived two assassination attempts.

He won Michigan on Wednesday afternoon, sweeping the 'blue wall' along with Pennsylvania — the one-time Democrat-leaning, swing states that all went for Trump in 2016 before flipping to Biden in 2020.