“Morning Joe” co-anchor Joe Scarborough was slammed by fans for his recent meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate, after critics took to social media to “reality.” He suggested that the world was confused with the world of
On Monday, the longtime MSNBC personality and frequent target of Trump’s ire and his co-host’s wife, Mika Brzezinski, announced that they visited Trump at his Florida mansion last Friday. When it was revealed on the program, there was an uproar. As Brzezinksi puts it, “restart communication.” “We disagreed on a lot of issues and I told him that,” Scarborough said of Trump’s powwow.
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Negative reaction among “Morning Joe” viewers and others was swift and mostly negative. Among those who slammed Scarborough and Brzezinski was media commentator Jeff Jarvis, who wrote in a post about It was a “betrayal of all of us” and “a disgusting act that demonstrated our prior obedience.”
On Tuesday morning’s “Morning Joe,” Scarborough claimed he received a lot of praise for his meeting with Trump, and the backlash points to how out of touch the sentiment on social media platforms like X is from the “real world.” He said that it highlighted the presence of animals.
“Yesterday I learned for the first time that there is a huge disconnect between social media and the real world, because I was flooded with calls all day long from people literally all over the world, all of them very positive, very supportive. , [who said] ‘I understand what you did…’ and so on,” Scarborough said.
“Sometimes I get a text message or a phone call from someone saying, ‘Hey, I hope you’re doing well,'” Scarborough said. I would call you back. [Author and academic] Eddie Glaude was one of them. “Are you on Twitter?” And he says, “I am.” “Well, not really, I had a good day then,” I said. Mika put on a great event and it’s great. ”
Scarborough told viewers that “all of us are doing the best we can and working toward a better America,” and Brzezinski added, “Everyone, take it one day at a time.” “First of all, I would like to thank everyone who was so kind last night,” Scarborough said before commenting Tuesday.
CNN, citing unnamed sources, said Scarborough and Brzezinski met with Trump in part because they were “deeply concerned that they could face government and legal harassment from the incoming Trump administration.” “I was doing it.”
The “Morning Joe” duo have been targeted numerous times over the years by President Trump, who has dubbed them “Crazy Mika” and “Psycho Joe.” In 2020, President Trump posted a tweet asserting a debunked conspiracy theory that Mr. Scarborough may have killed an aide who accidentally died in 2001 while Mr. Scarborough was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Scarborough was not present when the aide died after hitting his head on a desk. Police ruled her death an accident, according to the New York Times.
According to Brzezinski, before the Nov. 15 meeting at Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Scarborough and Mr. Brzezinski did not talk about anything other than Mr. Scarborough’s phone call to him after the assassination attempt on Trump at a rally in July. said he had not spoken to Trump since March 2020. in Butler, Pennsylvania
Brzezinski said Trump is “upbeat” and “optimistic” and seems “interested in finding common ground with Democrats on some of the most divisive issues.” Trump said “a lot of things were discussed” during the meeting and “very much appreciated the fact that they wanted open communication,” according to FOX News Digital. In many ways, it’s too bad it wasn’t done a long time ago. ”
Brzezinski said Monday that while he and Scarborough continue to oppose many of President Trump’s actions, they believe Trump could win the 2024 presidential election and return to the White House for a second term. He said he realized that “it was time to do something different.”
