Trump breaks silence on Morning Joe's secret Mar-a-Lago trip as viewers call for a boycott of the show

President Donald Trump revealed caller details of his gathering with MSNBC co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski astatine Mar-a-lago connected Friday aft viewers mocked the celebrated tv mates for 'bending the knee' to the president-elect they erstwhile denounced arsenic a fascist.

Trump told Fox News helium received a telephone from Scarborough requesting the gathering and that brace traveled to Palm Beach, Florida aft helium graciously accepted, scheduling it for 8:00 am.

'Many things were discussed, and I precise overmuch appreciated the information that they wanted to person unfastened communication,' helium said. 'In galore ways, it's excessively atrocious that it wasn't done agelong ago.'

Trump said that some of the hosts, '"congratulated maine connected moving a "great and flawless campaign, 1 for the past books."'

During the 2024 election, some Brzezinski and Scarborough 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.' 

The brace had not met with Trump successful 7 years.

But Trump appeared consenting to hide the hatchet connected Friday, describing the gathering arsenic 'extremely cordial.'

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

Despite striking up a lukewarm media narration erstwhile helium ran for president the archetypal clip successful 2016, Brzezinski and Scarborough had a falling retired with the president aft helium shocked the satellite and beat failed statesmanlike campaigner Hillary Clinton.

Scarborough and Brzezinski were soon highly captious of Trump's presidency, aft helium entered the White House, repeatedly condemning him connected their greeting quality program.

Brzezinski successful peculiar repeatedly needled Trump for being 'mentally ill' and speculated astir his request to spot a psychiatrist.

In June 2017, Trump fired backmost astatine the brace connected societal media, recalling however 'low I.Q. Crazy Mika, on with Psycho Joe,' came to Mar-a-lago for 3 nights successful a enactment during New Year's Eve, and were hopeless to walk clip with him.

'She was bleeding severely from a face-lift. I said no!' Trump wrote, referring to Brzezinski.

The narration entered adjacent much bizarre territory by Christmas 2017, erstwhile Brzezinski and Scarborough recorded a holiday-themed medium called 'A Very Drumpf Christmas' with songs mocking the president. 

In 2018, the TV mates made it authoritative arsenic they were joined astatine a ceremonial astatine the National Archives successful beforehand of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, signaling their committedness to Democracy. 

But Trump was gracious connected Friday arsenic the mates sought to 'restart communications' and set a 'new approach' up of his 2nd term.

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,' Brzezinski revealed Monday morning. 

Scarborough said they spoke astir respective issues pressing the state reassuring viewers that that they and Trump 'didn't spot eye-to-eye connected a batch of issues and we told him so.'

Defending their decision, Brzezinski said: '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 Trump was cheerful during their gathering and seemed funny successful uncovering communal crushed with Democrats. 

Scarborough told viewers they would not halt their disapproval of the president-elect.

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

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.'