Liberals rage against 'Morning Joe' 'betrayal' after co-hosts meet with Trump: 'We will not forgive'

"Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski acceptable disconnected a firestorm connected the near aft they announced Monday they had privately met with President-elect Donald Trump past week.

"Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to conscionable personally with President-elect Trump," Brzezinski told viewers of the meeting, which took spot Friday. "It was the archetypal clip we person seen him successful 7 years."

Scarborough added that they didn't spot "eye to oculus connected a batch of issues, and we told him so." Scarborough said they went implicit specified topics arsenic abortion, mass deportation, and threats of retribution against governmental opponents and media outlets. 

The meeting, according to the hosts, was astir an statement to "restart communications." Trump was cheerful during the gathering and appeared funny successful uncovering communal crushed with Democrats connected large issues, the hosts said

Still, the staunch Trump critics' admittance enraged liberals, who took to societal media to telephone them "grifters" and "cowards."

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FILE - Then-Republican statesmanlike nominee erstwhile President Donald Trump speaks during a run event, Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024, successful Mint Hill, N.C.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

"BREAKING NEWS: I TOLD YOU SO," erstwhile MSNBC big Keith Olbermann wrote, calling the brace "Trump collaborators."

"Not a connection Mr. and Mrs. Vichy Quisling accidental tin ever beryllium trusted again - not that those words ever should person been trusted. They are assurance tricksters - and grifters," Olbermann added. 

"Normalizing Trump is simply a precise atrocious idea," MSNBC big Katie Phang besides wrote on X, successful an evident notation to her web colleagues.

"F— Joe & Mika. F— Morning Joe. And f— MSNBC if they support them connected the f—ing air," fashionable wide X idiosyncratic "JoJofromJerz" posted.

"Bowing successful advance. Cowards," wide SiriusXM big Michelangelo Signorile posted.

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"Morning Joe" co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough enraged liberals connected societal media aft gathering with President-elect Donald Trump. (Getty Images)

"Given Morning Joe and Mika are present sucking up to Trump I wanted to re-share my clip from MSNBC connected Friday erstwhile I made it wide WE volition NEVER surrender to Trump. We volition instrumentality the combat to him. We volition not conscionable him halfway connected his fascism. We cognize who helium is, and much importantly we cognize who we are," progressive SiriusXM big Dean Obeidallah wrote.

Liberals besides criticized the MSNBC anchors connected the left-leaning societal media platform, Bluesky.

"Sold america retired for access. We volition not forget, and if we past the adjacent 4 years, we volition not forgive," Bluesky relationship LocoRunner posted.

"Disgusting," anti-Trump Washington Post columnist and MSNBC expert Jennifer Rubin posted successful response.

"Morning Joe jumped the shark," MeidasNews Editor-in-Chief, Ron Filipkowski, posted connected the platform.

"Joe Scarborough and Mika from Morning Joe, their ratings plummeting, made a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago due to the fact that they decided if you can't bushed him, grovel for entree and assistance normalize him AGAIN. STOP WATCHING MORNING JOE," fashionable wide societal media relationship "Brooklyn Dad Defiant" posted.

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"Morning Joe" co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough person acceptable disconnected a left-wing firestorm aft they said they met with President-elect Donald Trump astatine Mar-a-Lago. (Screenshot/MSNBC)

"To those of you waking up astatine this hr and reasoning of watching the rerun of the archetypal hr of @Morning_Joe, this is what you are successful for: @JoeNBC's and @morningmika's betrayal of their colleagues, democracy, and america all. It is simply a disgusting amusement of obeisance successful advance," Jeff Jarvis, a precocious retired prof astatine CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, wrote.

On "The View," the left-leaning sheet debated the determination from a journalistic perspective. Co-host Sunny Hostin said it wasn't indispensable successful her presumption to spell and "kiss the ring" to beryllium capable to decently screen Trump.

Scarborough and Brzezinski, who are married, stood retired successful the 2016 rhythm for their bullishness connected Trump's governmental chances aboriginal successful the Republican primary, and they took vigor for often hosting and interviewing the aboriginal president astatine the time.

But they became 2 of his staunchest critics erstwhile helium took bureau and Trump astatine times leveled intensely idiosyncratic attacks connected the pair. In turn, the hosts person antecedently deemed him a fascist, authoritarian menace to ideology and adjacent made Hitler comparisons.

Scarborough appeared to expect the progressive backlash to their acme connected Monday, saying, "Don't beryllium mistaken. We're not present to support oregon normalize Donald Trump. We're present to study connected him and to hopefully supply you insights that are going to amended equip each of america successful knowing these profoundly unsettling times."

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Fox News' David Rutz contributed to this article.