Washington Post media critic urges Democrats to 'turn off Morning Joe' after their meeting with Trump

Washington Post media professional Erik Wemple urged Democrats to crook disconnected MSNBC's "Morning Joe," hosted by Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, connected Thursday pursuing the co-hosts' determination to conscionable with President-elect Donald Trump. 

"The mentation was a singular spectacle, 1 that’s definite to play connected a loop successful the eventual Smithsonian Museum of Cable News History. Scarborough and Brzezinski alternated with scripted elements of their spiel, a presumption dense connected preemptive strikes," Wemple said, portion repeatedly urging radical that they were amended disconnected speechmaking a newspaper. 

The header for the nonfiction suggested, "Five reasons Democrats should crook disconnected ‘Morning Joe.’" The sub-headline critiqued, "What are you getting from this staple of greeting TV 'news?’" Wemple began, "And, arsenic luck would person it, it’s each reducible to 5 reasons Democrats should crook disconnected ‘Morning Joe.’"

Brzezinski and Scarborough revealed connected Monday that they met with Trump for implicit an hr astatine Mar-a-Lago. Their gathering was met with criticism from the left, arsenic the pair's amusement is location to immoderate of Trump's biggest critics successful the media.

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"Morning Joe" co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough revealed connected Monday that the brace met with President-elect Donald Trump. (Screenshot/MSNBC)

"Historians volition 1 time look backmost astatine the assorted opportunities this state has had to halt Trump," Wemple wrote. "Perhaps the champion one, though, came successful the aboriginal months of his statesmanlike superior run successful 2015, erstwhile his hate-filled authorities were wide but his basal of enactment hadn’t rather hardened." 

The media columnist wrote that Scarborough "yukked it up" with Trump successful 2015 and said MSNBC's viewers "know excessively good what a Trump-'Morning Joe' gathering looks like."

During the Monday announcement, Brzezinski explained that it was clip for a alteration successful their attack to the president-elect and added, "that starts with not lone talking astir Donald Trump but besides talking with him."

"Why cordon disconnected a soul-searching conception of "Morning Joe" for this quasi-revelation? Perhaps to nonstop a awesome to MSNBC’s absorption community: You mightiness not similar what you spot connected this programme going forward. Could those folks person driven the ratings dip astatine "Morning Joe" instantly pursuing Monday’s announcement?" Wemple asked. 

Trump told Fox News Digital that Brzezinski and Scarborough "congratulated maine connected moving a ‘great and flawless campaign, 1 for the past books,’ which I truly judge it was, but it was besides a run wherever I worked agelong and hard — possibly longer and harder than immoderate statesmanlike campaigner successful history." 

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

"Think astir this crook of events for a moment: ‘Morning Joe' spent years denouncing Trump’s authoritarian plans and actions to its faithful audience. Then, 1 day, its hosts put a gathering that allows Trump to marque that claim," Wemple wrote, reacting to the connection from Trump.

Wemple besides noted the co-hosts absorption to Special Counsel Robert Hurr's study astir President Biden that was released successful February, specifically his uncovering that Biden is simply a "well-meaning, aged antheral with a mediocre memory."

Scarborough called the claims "garbage," and argued Hurr released "irrelevant conclusions, politically charged, Trump-like ramblings."

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"Stalwart behaviour of that benignant was nary surprise, considering that Biden has been a devotee of the programme and Scarborough has served arsenic a sounding committee for the president successful backstage calls. That’s not to suggest that a cable-news big would let proximity to powerfulness to unreality his quality judgement successful immoderate mode connected immoderate occasion," Wemple wrote.