Add Rosie O’Donnell to the checklist of critics who aren’t blissful about Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski‘s assembly with president-elect Donald Trump over the weekend.
Taking to TikTok on Tuesday, November 19, the previous View co-host swore she would by no means watch the MSNBC morning program once more, calling the actions of Scarborough and Brzezinksi “despicable” and “sycophantic.”
“So Mika and Joe went right down to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring,” O’Donnell stated within the video. “It’s the final time I ever watch Morning Joe. Interval. Finish of assertion. Unreal. Unreal. For months, you have been telling us he’s the worst factor that would occur to this nation and democracy, and then you definitely go kiss his ring? Despicable. Despicable you, each of you.”
Scarborough and Brzezinski revealed on Monday’s (November 18) present that that they had met with Trump at his Palm Seashore residence, Mar-a-Lago, over the weekend. “Joe and I noticed it’s time to do one thing totally different, and that begins with not solely speaking about Donald Trump but additionally speaking with him,” Brzezinksi shared.
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The announcement obtained rapid backlash, with former MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann calling Scarborough and Brzezinski “confidence tricksters” and “grifters.”
Joe and Mika went to Mar a Lago to speak with Trump over the weekend. First face-to-face assembly in seven years. “We didn’t see eye-to-eye on lots of points and we instructed him so,” @JoeNBC says. “What we did agree on – was to restart communications,” @morningmika says. pic.twitter.com/lyWZWK4CwX
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 18, 2024
In the meantime, Jon Stewart introduced up the subject on Monday’s The Day by day Present, the place he centered on a clip of Brzezinksi saying, “For these asking why we’d go communicate to the president-elect throughout such fraught occasions, particularly between us, I suppose I’d ask again, why wouldn’t we?”
“Uh… Since you stated he was Hitler,” Stewart responded.
Scarborough responded to the backlash on Tuesday’s (November 19) present, saying, “Yesterday I noticed for the primary time what an enormous disconnect there was between social media and the true world as a result of we have been flooded with telephone calls from folks all day, actually around the globe, all very optimistic, very supportive.”
“However occasionally I’d get a textual content or name from somebody going, ‘Oh, man, I hope you’re doing okay,’” Scarborough continued. “I’d name them again, Eddie Glaude was one in every of them, I’d go: ‘Are you on Twitter?’ And he goes, ‘I’m.’ I’d go ‘Nicely I’m not so we’ve had a great day. Mika had a beautiful occasion and it’s incredible.’ All of us will do the perfect we are able to do and we’re all working in the direction of a greater America.”
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