Morning Joe anchors Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough brought about fairly a stir final November after they met with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago following his presidential election victory, and now there’s affirmation that the contact continued past that assembly.
Showing on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Dwell, Brzezinski was requested whether or not she and her co-host and husband, Scarborough, have maintained contact with Trump following their Mar-a-Lago go to. “Yeah,” she answered, per the New York Put up, which appeared to shock Cohen.
“It’s known as our job,” Brzezinski added.
Cohen wished to know if Trump was mad with the left-leaning couple, to which the MSNBC anchor responded, “I’ve a tough time answering that as a result of he could possibly be mad proper now.”
She went on to notice how “it’s essential to know the folks that you just’re protecting and to have as a lot perception as potential,” including that she and Scarborough method each administration the identical method.
“Each single president that we’ve coated, we now have recognized and we now have recognized all people within the White Home and tried our greatest to get as a lot perception on and off the file as potential,” Brzezinski said.
Morning Joe confronted backlash in November 2024 following Trump’s election victory when viewers slammed Brzezinski and Scarborough for assembly with Trump, which they reasoned was performed as a result of it was “time to do one thing totally different.”
“Joe and I spotted it’s time to do one thing totally different and that begins with not solely speaking about Donald Trump but additionally speaking with him,” Brzezinski stated on the time. “For these asking why we’d go communicate to the president-elect throughout such fraught instances, particularly between us, I suppose I might ask again, why wouldn’t we? 5 years of political warfare has deeply divided Washington and the nation.”
The couple acquired backlash from viewers and political commentators, together with former MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, who stated not a phrase Brzezinski and Scarborough say “can ever be trusted once more” and referred to them as “confidence tricksters” and “grifters.” In the meantime, on The View, co-host Sunny Hostin accused the pair of “kissing [Trump’s] ring” and stated their credibility as journalists needs to be thrown into query.
Morning Joe additionally took a quick scores hit following the Trump assembly. The November 20 episode, the place the hosts mentioned their assembly, introduced in 839,000 whole viewers and 113,000 viewers within the 25-54 demo, whereas the Tuesday, November 21 episode dropped to 680,000 whole viewers and 76,000 in the important thing demo. Nonetheless, the present returned to regular numbers within the weeks after.