MSNBC contributor fuels 'Morning Joe' boycott after Trump meeting: They don't 'appreciate' their audience

MSNBC contributor Jennifer Rubin is encouraging a boycott of "Morning Joe" aft its hosts revealed they had a gathering with President-elect Donald Trump.

"Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, 2 of Trump's fiercest critics, shocked the federation connected Monday by disclosing their sojourn to Mar-a-Lago connected Friday, suggesting that reviving communications and extending an olive subdivision was the champion way guardant pursuing Trump's historical predetermination victory. 

"Disgusting," Rubin reacted to the gathering connected the societal media level Bluesky. 

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"Morning Joe" hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough sermon their gathering with President-elect Donald Trump.  (Screenshot/MSNBC)

Rubin aboriginal ratcheted up the rhetoric, encouraging her followers to crook disconnected "Morning Joe" to nonstop a message. 

"The marketplace works great. You tin halt watching Morning Joe anytime," Rubin wrote Monday evening. 

She then followed, "On MJ: If you don't admit the assemblage you have, betray that assemblage and suffer their spot you are [going] to suffer tons of them. I person seen this movie."

Rubin, besides a columnist for The Washington Post, was apt alluding to the backlash the insubstantial received from its wide readers past period aft the Post's billionaire proprietor Jeff Bezos halted its endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, thing Rubin, too, has been outspoken about. 

Neither Rubin nor MSNBC responded to Fox News Digital's requests for comment. 

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MSNBC contributor Jennifer Rubin is encouraging a boycott of "Morning Joe" aft its hosts revealed they had a gathering with President-elect Donald Trump. ((Photo by: William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC Newswire/NBCUniversal via Getty Images))

Friday's gathering was the archetypal clip they had seen Trump successful 7 years, Brzezinski said, and 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."

"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?" Brzezinski said. "Five years of governmental warfare has profoundly divided Washington and the country. We person been arsenic wide arsenic we cognize however successful expressing our heavy concerns astir President Trump’s actions and words successful the coarsening of nationalist debate. 

"But for astir 80 cardinal Americans, predetermination denialism, nationalist trials, January 6, were not arsenic important arsenic the issues that moved them to nonstop Donald Trump backmost to the White House with their vote. Joe and I recognize it’s clip to bash thing different, and that starts with not lone talking astir Donald Trump, but besides talking with him."

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Scarborough and Brzezinski often interviewed Trump connected their amusement during the 2016 Republican primary.  (REUTERS/Scott Morgan)

Trump spoke with Fox News Digital connected Monday astir the "extremely cordial" gathering helium had with the MSNBC hosts.

"I received a telephone from Joe Scarborough requesting a gathering for him and Mika, and I agreed that it would beryllium a bully happening if specified a gathering took place," Trump said successful an interview. "Many things were discussed, and I precise overmuch appreciated the information that they wanted to person unfastened connection … In galore ways, it’s excessively atrocious that it wasn’t done agelong ago.

"The gathering ended successful a precise affirmative manner, and we agreed to talk successful the future," helium added.

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Fox News' David Rutz and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.