“MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski… traveled to Mar-a-Lago for a meeting with [Donald Trump] to “reopen lines of communication that would better serve their morning show viewers.”
“Morning Joe,” like many shows on MSNBC, has seen its ratings drop precipitously since the election as its liberal audience takes a break.
Trump confirmed the meeting in an interview with Fox News Digital. “I very much appreciated the fact that they wanted to have open communication,” he said. “In many ways, it’s too bad that it wasn’t done long ago.”
In the same Fox News interview, Trump said that he had an obligation to the American public to be open and available to the press. “If not treated fairly, however, that will end,” he said.
Not everyone reacted the same way. On “The View” Monday, co-host Sunny Hostin said the country needs a free press willing to speak truth to power and she didn’t think it was necessary to travel to Mar-a-Lago to “kiss the ring.”
Jeff Jarvis, author of the BuzzMachine blog and a retired journalism professor at the City University of New York, said online that “it is a disgusting show of obeisance in advance.”
Several conservative commentators weren’t impressed either. Talk show host Buck Sexton, in a post on X, called the meeting astounding. “Trump’s victory is so complete, ‘Morning Joe’ has fully surrendered,” Sexton wrote. Veteran cable news personality Greta Van Susteren called it “groveling.”
[As an example of the insights viewers can expect from the new symbiotic relationship with “Dictator on Day One” Donald Trump, Mika Brzezinski was not able to report on whether he still intends to build detention camps, or institute a nationwide abortion ban or encourage Republicans to disband the U.S. Senate. She did, however, reveal that Trump was] “cheerful” and “upbeat.”
“Morning Joe Loses Remaining Five Viewers” Borowitz Report (satire)
“We’ve reached out to those five people, and they’re not coming back,” one executive confirmed. “There are now more people sitting around Joe’s roundtable than watching at home.”
MSNBC is reportedly mulling a number of moves to salvage the program, including rebranding it as “Trump & Friends.”
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