Morning Joe Disables Feedback, Faces On-line Outrage After Pleasant Assembly With Trump

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, introduced Monday morning that they’d visited Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida over the weekend. The go to was out of concern that Trump would assault them ultimately after he’s sworn in as president once more in January, in line with a report from CNN. And MSNBC viewers are pissed. How pissed? The account for Morning Joe has disabled replies on X and stopped posting video clips in an obvious try and cease the drumbeat of unfavourable suggestions on-line.

Scarborough, who till Trump was re-elected on Nov. 5 would confer with the previous president fairly appropriately as a “fascist,” mentioned on Monday’s present that he talked with Trump about matters like abortion, mass deportation, and threats of retribution in opposition to his political opponents. That final level appeared to be probably the most urgent, as CNN experiences that folks near Scarborough and Brzezinski declare they solely went to Mar-a-Lago as a result of they’re involved about what Trump might do to them.

Brzezinski positioned the assembly as “restarting communications” and invoked her late father, Zbigniew Brzezinski, to insist that diplomacy was necessary. The elder Brzezinski was Nationwide Safety Advisor to President Jimmy Carter within the Nineteen Seventies, in fact, and never ostensibly a reporter overlaying an incoming president.

“On this assembly, President Trump was cheerful. He was upbeat. He appeared considering discovering frequent floor with Democrats on a few of the most divisive points,” mentioned Brzezinski in one of many least convincing monologues ever put ahead on MSNBC.

“And for these asking why we’d go converse to the president-elect throughout such fraught occasions, particularly between us, I assume I might ask again, why wouldn’t we?” Brzezinski continued.

You may watch the embarrassing rationalization from Monday’s present beneath.

Nicely, the backlash was swift, with social media customers inundating the Morning Joe accounts with unfavourable feedback. “Morning Joe going to mar a lago was not begin to the week,” fellow anti-Trump conservative Adam Kinzinger wrote on Bluesky. Different accounts flooded X, previously generally known as Twitter, with complaints about their swap to turning into extra Trump-friendly.

“Joe Scarborough @JoeNBC and Mika Brzezinski are two of the most important frauds on #MSNBC,” reads one tweet that was typical on X. “He’s on his excessive horse once more appearing like he saved journalism by kissing the ring of a person he referred to as each identify beneath the solar final week earlier than taking place to Mar-a-Lago.“

However Scarborough and Brzezinski held their floor on Tuesday’s present, insisting that every one the unfavourable consideration on-line wasn’t consultant of how most individuals felt about them assembly with an incoming fascist president.

“Yesterday I noticed for the primary time what a large disconnect there was between social media and the actual world as a result of we have been flooded with cellphone calls from individuals all day, actually world wide, all very constructive, very supportive,” Scarborough said.

That’s ridiculous, in fact. However it’s fully comprehensible whenever you keep in mind that Scarborough has lengthy been an anti-Trump Republican with out a lot in the best way of ideas. He’s an entertainer above all else, and clearly a coward. That’s to not say that Trump wasn’t really going to come back after him with the total pressure of the U.S. authorities. Trump has promised to hunt retribution in opposition to many of us within the media and has even prompt Gen. Mark Milley needs to be executed. We have to take him at his phrase.

However Trump’s enemies checklist is lengthy, and other people like Scarborough have sources to battle. Many different journalists and media figures don’t have the backing of huge organizations and big sums of money to withstand Trump’s onslaught. The so-called “resistance” embodied by fair-weather liberals like Scarborough and Brzezinski was by no means going to stay it out if issues really acquired powerful. As a result of when the stakes get actual, individuals just like the Morning Joe crew are able to collaborate to protect their snug lives.

Scarborough and Brzezinski aren’t the one media personalities doing a fascist-friendly pivot proper now. Vice’s editor-in-chief Shane Smith appears to be signaling that he’s pleasant to the incoming Trump regime because the media model has produced social media content like “Is Elon a genius?” referring to billionaire Elon Musk, who’s been picked to move some form of fee to slash the federal price range.

Issues are going to simply hold getting weirder as we get nearer to Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025. And we’ll nearly definitely see extra defections to Trumpland because the weeks and months drag on. These of us can lock down their social media accounts. However the public isn’t going to neglect their betrayal.