MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough cautioned viewers that the pro-Palestinian protests happening across college campuses could be helping former President Donald Trump’s 2024 election chances. He added that viewers who are too “stupid” to understand that could change the channel.

Scarborough, a frequent critic of the former president, compared the multitude of university protests to the demonstrations against the Vietnam War that took place in the 1960s, which turned his parents from lifelong Democrats to Republicans. He added that his parents, who grew up in the Great Depression, found it hard to believe how “rich kids on campus” had taken over college campuses.

“If you’re offended by this, please, I’m trying to help you,” Scarborough said. ”I don’t want Donald Trump to get elected, all right? I’m trying to help you. If you’re too stupid to figure that out, you can change to another channel. Because we’re sorting through this as a country, and this is not helping. This is not helping the people of Gaza, and this is not helping those of us who want to fight fascism in America.”

Scarborough has advised the protesters to do so peacefully and to “learn about the situation” between Israelis and Palestininians. He claimed that a majority of the students partaking in these protests get their news from TikTok, and do not know the full context of the conflict.

Columbia University has received most of the attention among the schools experiencing college protests, with the school recently announcing that all of its classes and final exams to be remote for the rest of the semester due to the “evolving campus situation.” During these protests, protesters seized the school’s Hamilton Hall for almost 20 hours.

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Biden has condemned the protests taking place across the country, though has rejected calls to bring in the National Guard to bring order to college campuses. Several lawmakers, including Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Josh Hawley (R-MO), have asked the president to send in the National Guard.

Trump, the presumptive presidential nominee for the Republican Party, had previously asked Biden to speak out against the violent protests. The statement by Trump is similar to statements Biden made in 2020 when he criticized how Trump handled the Black Lives Matter protests and riots that occurred at the time.