Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski met with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago last week.
The hosts promised to “restart communications.” I’ll believe it when I see it. I do not believe any of this is genuine:
Over the past week, Joe and I have heard from so many people, from political leaders to regular citizens deeply dismayed by several of President-elect Trump’s cabinet selections, and they are scared. Last Thursday, we expressed our own concerns on this broadcast and even said we would appreciate the opportunity to speak with the president elect himself on Friday. We were given the opportunity to do just that. Joe and I went to Mar a Lago to meet personally with President elect Trump. It was the first time we have seen him in seven years.Now, we talked about a lot of issues including abortion, mass deportation, threats of political retribution against political opponents, and media outlets. We talked about that a good bit, and it’s going to come as no surprise to anybody who watches this show, has watched it over the past year or over the past decade, that we didn’t see eye to eye on a lot of issues, and we told him so.What we did agree on was to restart communications. My father often spoke with world leaders with whom he in the United States profoundly disagreed.That’s a task shared by reporters and commentators alike. We had not spoken to President Trump since March of 2020 other than a personal call Joe made to Trump on the morning after the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania.In this meeting, President Trump was tearful. He was upbeat. He seemed interested in finding common ground with Democrats on some of the most divisive issues.And for those asking why we would go speak to the president elect during such fraught times, especially between us, I guess I would ask back, “Why wouldn’t we?” Five years of political warfare has deeply divided Washington and the country. We have been as clear as we know how in expressing our deep concerns about President Trump’s actions and words in the coarsening of public debate, but for nearly 80 million Americans, election denialism, public trials, January 6 were not as important as the issues that moved them to send Donald Trump back to the White House with their vote.Joe and I realized it’s time to do something different. And that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, but also talking with him
It sounds like Joe and Mika had a respectful conversation with Trump. This reminds me of my late boss, Andrew Breitbart. People hated him, but when they met him, they ended up liking him. It’s so weird how that happens.
Anyway, I’m not shocked. MSNBC’s ratings fell by 51% after Trump won. Comcast might even drop the network.
So, I 100% do not believe any of this is genuine. Someone at MSNBC made Joe and Mika do this.
I do not think Joe and Mika believe any of this. There is no way that they would acknowledge on their own that we normies care about the economy and issues that directly affect us and don’t care about denialism, the trials, or January 6th.
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