Viewers tuning into Morning Joe on Friday (December 6) to see the fallout of Joe Scarborough‘s scathing rant from Thursday’s (December 5) present have been shocked to see the host lacking, alongside along with his spouse and co-host Mika Brzezinski.
Because the hosts’ absence wasn’t defined on the high of the present by Willie Geist and Jonathan Lemire, some viewers puzzled if Scarborough and Brzezinski had give up or been fired following Thursday’s heated rant. Nonetheless, it turned out the absence was pre-planned.
The explanation Scarborough and Brzezinski weren’t within the studio on Friday’s present was as a result of they have been headed to Arkansas to interview former President Invoice Clinton.
Nonetheless, this didn’t cease viewers from speculating, with one X consumer writing, “After yesterday’s meltdown by Joe, I don’t see them returning. Give the present to Pleasure Reid. Morning Pleasure.”
“It might not be stunning if administration of MSNBC reacted to Joe’s outbursts yesterday they usually have been known as in for a gathering,” mentioned one other.
One other added, “Good, they need to go away completely from Morning Joke and their unhappy appeasement of Trump.”
“Subsequent week: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski will likely be leaving Morning Joe with a purpose to spend extra time with their household,” one commenter quipped.
“I feel it over for them,” mentioned one other.
One other wrote, “No spinning this for Joe & Mika! I feel their present will likely be cancelled or completely overhauled with out them!”
The most recent drama got here after Scarborough spent 20 minutes of Thursday’s present ranting in opposition to Atlantic author David Frum and different critics of the Morning Joe hosts. Frum was a visitor on the present on Wednesday (December 4) when he made a joke about Donald Trump’s protection secretary nominee Pete Hegseth.
After Brzezinski later addressed viewers and referred to the joke as “flippant,” Frum penned an article for the Atlantic the place he claimed the Morning Joe hosts apologized on his behalf as a result of “concern” and attempting to “appease” the incoming Trump administration.
Scarborough fired again at Frum on Thursday’s episode, saying his response “wasn’t the sound of concern, that was the sound of civility,” including, “I’m not fearful. In case you discuss to anyone who served with me in congress, they’ll let you know, not frightened of management. Now? Not fearful.”
The host additionally took goal at those that criticized his and his spouse’s assembly with Trump following his election win final month. “We went down to speak to the President-elect and folks wrote articles that have been simply false,” he said. “However you realize what we did? We did the company factor. Company mentioned, ‘Don’t say something. Simply maintain your head down.’ What did the royals say? By no means clarify, by no means complain. We did that.”
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