Morning Joe hosts defend Trump Mar-a-Lago meeting after being mocked by media colleagues

The stars of Morning Joe person defended their arguable meeting with Donald Trump aft being slammed by their media colleagues.

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski person received backlash from some blimpish and wide media figures aft they revealed that they met with the president-elect at Mar-a-Lago to 'restart communications.'

The MSNBC hosts dismissed the disapproval saying it conscionable proves determination is simply a 'massive disconnect' betwixt 'social media and the existent world.'

'Yesterday I saw for the archetypal clip what a monolithic disconnect determination was betwixt societal media and the existent satellite due to the fact that we were flooded with telephone calls from radical each day, virtually astir the world, each precise positive, precise supportive, 'I recognize what you did…' 'Scarborough said connected Tuesday.

'But erstwhile successful a portion I would get a substance oregon telephone from idiosyncratic going, 'Oh, man, I anticipation you're doing okay.' I would telephone them back... I'd go: 'Are you connected Twitter?' And helium goes, 'I am.' I'd spell 'Well I'm not truthful we've had a bully day.'

'All of america volition bash the champion we tin bash and we're each moving towards a amended America.'

The View's Ana Navarro was 1 of the media figures who unleashed a blistering on-air tirade successful effect to the pair's astonishment sojourn to Mar-a-Lago implicit the weekend.

The governmental strategist tore into the joined MSNBC anchors implicit their travel to see  Trump, calling it 'opportunistic' during her rant. She asked whether the 2 had 'change[d] their stripes' due to the fact that of 'who's successful power.'

On the MAGA side, Megyn Kelly besides went aft Scarborough and Brzezinski, telling them to spell 'f**k themselves.'

'Go f**k yourselves, you dishonest jokes of faux journalists,' Kelly said connected Monday, reminding her assemblage that the Morning Joe hosts initially supported Trump's bid for president successful 2016.

'It is nauseating, it's truthful stomach-turning,' Kelly added. 'They're truthful disgusting.' 

Kelly past claimed that Scarborough stopped supporting Trump aft 'Scarborough recovered retired helium was not gonna beryllium the vice statesmanlike moving mate.'

'He had been rejected for that presumption and they turned, they turned connected Trump due to the fact that entree to powerfulness is everything to that small, small man,' the erstwhile Fox News and NBC News prima said.

Former Republican campaigner for president Nikki Haley said: 'Let’s beryllium clear, Joe and Mika didn’t abruptly spot the light, they saw their ratings. They realized they needed Trump for their survival.'

Amid the backlash, Morning Joe staffers person insisted the Florida meeting was 'f***ing worthy it.' 

Trump, connected his part, told Fox News that helium took the meeting because successful bid to 'Make America Great Again, it is precise important, if not vital, to person a free, just and unfastened media oregon press.'

Trump and the 'Morning Joe' stars person had a contentious narration since the Republican entered authorities - with Scarborough leaving the Republican enactment arsenic a result.

During the 2024 election, Morning Joe repeatedly denounced Trump arsenic a racist, sexist, fascist, and told viewers helium did not merit to beryllium president. At 1 point, Scarborough said Trump was acting 'full-on Hitler' and Brzezinski condemned him for echoing the 'dangerous connection of infamous fascist leaders.' 

Brzezinski said connected Monday they decided to scope retired to Trump for 'the accidental to talk with the President-elect, himself' due to the fact that their viewers and 'regular citizens' person expressed fearfulness pursuing Trump's predetermination and his caller furniture selections.

Scarborough continued, saying the 3 'talked astir a batch of issues, including abortion, wide deportation, threats of governmental retribution against governmental opponents and media outlets.' 

Trump utilized to beryllium regular contributor to Morning Joe, and Scarborough was an aboriginal cheerleader for the billionaire's maverick bid for the GOP information successful 2016.

But relations soured arsenic Trump pulled disconnected a astonishment triumph successful the Republican primaries and began to look similar a superior challenger to the Democrats' Hillary Clinton.

The four-hour greeting amusement became a bastion of the Democratic constitution aft Trump's archetypal term, with President Joe Biden routinely tuning successful portion doing his greeting exercises to spot his acolytes beforehand the party's talking points.

With Trump successful the White House and Scarborough engaged to co-host Brzezinski helium began cementing his show's individuality arsenic an outpost of absorption to the caller administration.

The mates adjacent recorded a Christmas medium called 'A Very Drumpf Christmas' with children's songs portraying the president arsenic Dr. Seuss' The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.

It yet attracted the attraction of the president himself, who delivered a bid of withering put-downs, labeling Scarborough 'Psycho Joe' and his then-fiancée arsenic 'low IQ Crazy Mika', portion mischievously claiming she had been 'bleeding severely from a face-lift' during a sojourn to his Mar-a-Lago estate.

Brzezinski aboriginal confirmed she'd been recovering from cosmetic country during the trip.

And the feud deepened erstwhile the president revived long-debunked claims that Scarborough had been progressive successful the decease of his erstwhile legislature staffer who was recovered dormant connected his bureau level successful 2001.

An autopsy recovered that Lori Bolterstein Klausutis, 28, had deed her caput connected a table aft collapsing from an undiagnosed heart-valve irregularity but Trump called for a caller probe into the case.

The allegations earned Trump his archetypal rebuke from Twitter, which would yet footwear him disconnected the level altogether successful January 2021.