Morning Joe staff fires back at liberal critics of secret Mar-a-Lago trip as viewers call for a boycott of the show

Staffers for Morning Joe are insisting hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski's determination to conscionable with Donald Trump was the close 1 aft liberals slammed the pair. 

The joined cohosts of MSNBC's  'Morning Joe' said connected Monday they traveled 'personally' to conscionable with Trump connected Friday successful bid to 'restart communications and set a 'new approach' up of his 2nd term.

After a bid of condemnations from progressives and fans of the show, their accumulation squad is speaking retired successful defence of their bosses, with 1 profanely saying the gathering 'was f***ing worthy it.'

'That doesn't mean determination are going to beryllium earth-shaking changes but the somesthesia has to travel down,' an insider told The Daily Beast. 

One said that the gathering was straight liable to a pleasant interrogation Trump gave astir the gathering connected Fox News aboriginal connected Monday.  

They added that turning down a gathering with Trump 'would beryllium journalistic malpractice.' 

Another claimed: 'Any practicing writer oregon quality big would instrumentality an disconnected the grounds gathering with the incoming President of the United States. End of discussion.' 

Brzezinski herself defended the determination connected the show: 'For those asking wherefore we would spell talk to the president-elect during specified fraught times, particularly betwixt us, I conjecture I would inquire backmost – wherefore wouldn’t we?'

She added: 'My begetter [diplomat Zbigniew Brzezinski] often spoke with satellite leaders with whom helium and the United States profoundly disagreed...That's a task shared by reporters and commentators alike....

'Joe and I realized it’s clip to bash thing antithetic and that starts with not lone talking astir Donald Trump, but besides talking with him.' 

An MSNBC spokesperson declined to comment.   

Brzezinski said 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 election and his caller furniture selections.

'On Friday, we were fixed the accidental to bash conscionable that. Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to conscionable personally with President-elect Trump. It was the archetypal clip we person seen him successful 7 years,' Brzezinski said arsenic she opened the amusement Monday.

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

Unsurprisingly, Scarborough shared that they and Trump 'didn’t spot eye-to-eye connected a batch of issues and we told him so.'

Brzezinski revealed the past clip the hosts spoke to Trump was successful March of 2020 - different than when Scarborough called him aft the effort connected his beingness successful Butler, Pennsylvania, implicit the summer.

Brzezinski shared that Trump was cheerful during their gathering and seemed funny successful uncovering communal crushed with Democrats. 

However, Scarborough concluded by telling viewers they volition not halt their disapproval of the president-elect.

'Don’t beryllium mistaken, helium said. 'We are not present to support oregon normalize Donald Trump.

'We are 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.'

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. 

During the 2024 predetermination cycle, Morning Joe rapidly rallied down Harris’ candidacy aft she usurped Biden arsenic the Democratic Party's nominee, but showed aboriginal signs of nervousness arsenic the determination failed to nutrient a important canvass lead. 

Morning Joe became the forum for DC's caller Democrat constitution and the most-watched greeting cablegram quality programme by 2023, boosted successful portion by its extended sum of Donald Trump's ineligible battles.

Following Trump's triumph earlier this period Scarborough has offered up assorted theories arsenic to however the Republican could decision Harris, including blaming 'racist Hispanics' and 'sexist achromatic men.'

Morning Joe viewers were outraged by the news, condemning the hosts for their evident hypocrisy. 

'I don't deliberation you request to beryllium down for ninety minutes astatine Mar-a-Lago and buss his ringing to beryllium capable to talk information and beryllium capable to screen a story, truthful possibly they're not journalists successful the existent sense, possibly they are saying they are sentiment journalists.' The View cohost Sunny Hostin noted connected the amusement Monday. 

'Normalizing Trump is simply a atrocious idea. Period,' wrote MSNBC big Katie Phang connected X.com seemingly reacting to the news. 

Journalism prof Jeff Jarvis said the gathering was a 'betrayal of their colleagues, democracy, and america all. It is simply a disgusting amusement of obeisance successful advance.'

'Making the pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago is kissing the ringing #MorningJoe, normalizing Trump, surrendering successful beforehand careless of however you effort to warrant it,' wrote X idiosyncratic 'Wendy Spirit' connected societal media

'I hatred to interruption it to you, Joe and Mika: you compromise it each erstwhile you compromise yourself similar this. Shameful stuff, you two,' wrote Ben Meiselas connected the viral leftist authorities MeidasTouch Substack. 'As for us, MeidasTouch volition ne'er crook the knee. We volition ne'er submit. We volition ne'er obey.'

'Definitely going to halt watching Morning Joe. I'm not going on wtyh normalizing racism and misogyny from a rapist,' wrote media publicist Raquel Perazzo connected X.

'More than immoderate different media hosts these 2 are liable for the Dem party's disastrous obsession with Liz Cheney NeverTrumpers implicit the moving people and the demolition of the people archetypal Bernie movement,' wrote erstwhile MSNBC big and Breaking Points co-host Krystal Ball. 'Now that they've helped usher the fascists successful they spell and buss the ring. Disgusting.'