Morning Joe Disables Comments, Faces Online Outrage After Friendly Meeting With Trump

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the hosts of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, announced Monday greeting that they’d visited Donald Trump astatine his Mar-a-Lago residence successful Florida implicit the weekend. The sojourn was retired of fearfulness that Trump would onslaught them successful immoderate mode aft helium is sworn successful arsenic president again successful January, according to a study from CNN. And MSNBC viewers are pissed. How pissed? The relationship for Morning Joe has disabled replies connected X and stopped posting video clips successful an evident effort to halt the drumbeat of antagonistic feedback online.

Scarborough, who until Trump was re-elected connected Nov. 5 would notation to the erstwhile president rather correctly arsenic a “fascist,” said connected Monday’s amusement that helium talked with Trump astir topics similar abortion, wide deportation, and threats of retribution against his governmental opponents. That past constituent seemed to beryllium the astir pressing, arsenic CNN reports that radical adjacent to Scarborough and Brzezinski assertion they lone went to Mar-a-Lago due to the fact that they’re acrophobic astir what Trump whitethorn bash to them.

Brzezinski positioned the gathering arsenic “restarting communications” and invoked her precocious father, Zbigniew Brzezinski, to importune that diplomacy was important. The elder Brzezinski was National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter successful the 1970s, of course, and not ostensibly a newsman covering an incoming president.

“In this meeting, President Trump was cheerful. He was upbeat. He seemed funny successful uncovering communal crushed with Democrats connected immoderate of the astir divisive issues,” said Brzezinski successful 1 of the slightest convincing monologues ever enactment guardant connected MSNBC.

“And for those asking wherefore we would spell talk to the president-elect during specified fraught times, particularly betwixt us, I conjecture I would inquire back, wherefore wouldn’t we?” Brzezinski continued.

You tin watch the embarrassing rationalization from Monday’s amusement below.

Well, the backlash was swift, with societal media users inundating the Morning Joe accounts with antagonistic comments. “Morning Joe going to mar a lago was not a bully commencement to the week,” chap anti-Trump blimpish Adam Kinzinger wrote connected Bluesky. Other accounts flooded X, formerly known arsenic Twitter, with complaints astir their power to becoming much Trump-friendly.

“Joe Scarborough @JoeNBC and Mika Brzezinski are 2 of the biggest frauds connected #MSNBC,” reads 1 tweet that was typical connected X. “He’s connected his precocious equine again acting similar helium saved journalism by kissing the ringing of a antheral helium called each sanction nether the prima past week earlier going down to Mar-a-Lago.“

But Scarborough and Brzezinski held their crushed connected Tuesday’s show, insisting that each the antagonistic attraction online wasn’t typical of however astir radical felt astir them gathering with an incoming fascist president.

“Yesterday I saw for the archetypal clip what a monolithic disconnect determination was betwixt societal media and the existent satellite due to the fact that we were flooded with telephone calls from radical each day, virtually astir the world, each precise positive, precise supportive,” Scarborough said.

That’s ridiculous, of course. But it’s wholly understandable erstwhile you retrieve that Scarborough has agelong been an anti-Trump Republican without overmuch successful the mode of principles. He’s an entertainer supra each else, and intelligibly a coward. That’s not to accidental that Trump wasn’t really going to travel aft him with the afloat unit of the U.S. government. Trump has promised to question retribution against galore folks successful the media and has adjacent suggested Gen. Mark Milley should beryllium executed. We request to instrumentality him astatine his word.

But Trump’s enemies database is long, and radical similar Scarborough person resources to fight. Many different journalists and media figures don’t person the backing of ample organizations and immense sums of currency to defy Trump’s onslaught. The alleged “resistance” embodied by fair-weather liberals similar Scarborough and Brzezinski was ne'er going to instrumentality it retired if things really got tough. Because erstwhile the stakes get real, radical similar the Morning Joe unit are acceptable to collaborate to sphere their comfy lives.

Scarborough and Brzezinski aren’t the lone media personalities doing a fascist-friendly pivot close now. Vice’s editor-in-chief Shane Smith seems to beryllium signaling that he’s affable to the incoming Trump authorities arsenic the media marque has produced societal media content similar “Is Elon a genius?” referring to billionaire Elon Musk, who’s been picked to caput immoderate benignant of committee to slash the national budget.

Things are going to conscionable support getting weirder arsenic we get person to Trump’s inauguration connected Jan. 20, 2025. And we’ll astir surely spot much defections to Trumpland arsenic the weeks and months resistance on. Those folks tin fastener down their societal media accounts. But the nationalist isn’t going to hide their betrayal.