MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ Hosts Announce ‘Different’ Direction
Nov 18, 2024 19:32:50 GMT -5
Post by schwartzie on Nov 18, 2024 19:32:50 GMT -5
MSNBC’s ‘Morning Joe’ Hosts Announce ‘Different’ Direction After Meeting with Trump
Frank Bergman
November 18, 2024 - 2:03 pm
The hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” have just announced that they will be taking a “different” direction in response to President Donald Trump’s historic landslide election victory.
On Monday, after months of comparing Trump to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and describing him as a “fascist,” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski revealed they met with the incoming president on Friday to discuss an agreement to “restart communications.”
While justifying their meeting with Trump, Brzezinski evoked her father.
Zbigniew Brzezinski was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist who served as a counselor to Lyndon B. Johnson.
“My father often spoke with world leaders with whom he and the United States profoundly disagreed,” Brzezinski said.
“That’s a task shared by reporters and commentators alike.”
It was the first time they had seen Trump in seven years, Brzezinski said.
Scarborough added that they didn’t see “eye to eye on a lot of issues, and we told him so.”
He claims they discussed such topics as abortion, mass deportation, and alleged threats of retribution against political opponents and media outlets.
According to the leftist hosts, the meeting was about an agreement to “restart communications.”
Scarborough and Brzezinski added Trump was cheerful during the meeting and appeared interested in finding common ground with Democrats on major issues.
Trump won a decisive victory over Vice President Kamala Harris on November 5.
He swept the nation’s battleground states and also clinched the first popular vote win for a Republican in 20 years.
Brzezinski took a moment to respond to the viewers who may have been appalled that they met with the man they have compared to Hitler.
The show has repeatedly tried to convince viewers that Trump is a “threat to democracy.”
“For those asking why we would go speak to the president-elect during such fraught times, especially between us, I guess I would ask back – why wouldn’t we?” she said.
“Five years of political warfare has deeply divided Washington and the country.
“We have been as clear as we know how in expressing our deep concerns about President Trump’s actions and words in the coarsening of public debate.
“But for nearly 80 million Americans, election denialism, public trials, January 6, were not as important as the issues that moved them to send Donald Trump back to the White House with their vote.
“Joe and I realize it’s time to do something different, and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump but also talking with him.”
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MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Hosts Announce 'Different' Direction After Meeting with Trump
However, President Trump has responded to the announcement from “Morning Joe” and suggested they overplayed the nature of the meeting.
Scarborough and Brzezinski “went on their show and claimed to have met with me,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
“They made it sound like we had a summit,” he continued.
“The truth is, Joe begged to meet with me after our Big Win, and when I finally agreed, he approached me like a scolded dog.
“He should consider himself lucky I didn’t have him thrown out of beautiful Mar-a-Lago.
“Mika was charming, as usual,” Trump noted.
The defensive tone about speaking to Trump was noteworthy given “Morning Joe” was upset by NBC’s hiring of Trump ally Ronna McDaniel earlier this year as a paid analyst.
The show and several other MSNBC luminaries publicly spoke out against McDaniel appearing on their airwaves.
As a result, her contract was terminated after less than a week.
Brzezinski said Trump’s term would be a “consequential” presidency.
However, she claimed that only time would tell if it was “constructive.”
She railed against threatening political opponents and also noted that impeachments and trials tend to turn politicians into martyrs.
“Just ask Bill Clinton and Donald Trump,” she said.
Scarborough noted that Trump can’t seek another term so this could be an opportunity for “both parties to get to work.”
He also claimed that top Democrats had confided to him they were open to working with Trump if the feeling was mutual.
“Don’t be mistaken,” Scarborough said.
“We’re not here to defend or normalize Donald Trump.
“We’re here to report on him and to hopefully provide you insights that are going to better equip all of us in understanding these deeply unsettling times.”
Brzezinski also revealed Monday that Scarborough called Trump the day after the assassination attempt against him in July.
Other than that, however, they had not even spoken since 2020.
MSNBC kept “Morning Joe” off the air the Monday after the shooting in a controversial move at the time.
Scarborough and Brzezinski, who are married, stood out in the 2016 cycle for their bullishness on Trump’s political chances early in the Republican primary.
They also took heat for frequently hosting and interviewing the future president.
But they became two of his staunchest critics once he took office as most of the corporate media turned against Trump.
Scarborough, a former Florida U.S. congressman, left the Republican Party in 2017 over his disagreements with Trump.
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Frank Bergman
November 18, 2024 - 2:03 pm
The hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” have just announced that they will be taking a “different” direction in response to President Donald Trump’s historic landslide election victory.
On Monday, after months of comparing Trump to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and describing him as a “fascist,” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski revealed they met with the incoming president on Friday to discuss an agreement to “restart communications.”
While justifying their meeting with Trump, Brzezinski evoked her father.
Zbigniew Brzezinski was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist who served as a counselor to Lyndon B. Johnson.
“My father often spoke with world leaders with whom he and the United States profoundly disagreed,” Brzezinski said.
“That’s a task shared by reporters and commentators alike.”
It was the first time they had seen Trump in seven years, Brzezinski said.
Scarborough added that they didn’t see “eye to eye on a lot of issues, and we told him so.”
He claims they discussed such topics as abortion, mass deportation, and alleged threats of retribution against political opponents and media outlets.
According to the leftist hosts, the meeting was about an agreement to “restart communications.”
Scarborough and Brzezinski added Trump was cheerful during the meeting and appeared interested in finding common ground with Democrats on major issues.
Trump won a decisive victory over Vice President Kamala Harris on November 5.
He swept the nation’s battleground states and also clinched the first popular vote win for a Republican in 20 years.
Brzezinski took a moment to respond to the viewers who may have been appalled that they met with the man they have compared to Hitler.
The show has repeatedly tried to convince viewers that Trump is a “threat to democracy.”
“For those asking why we would go speak to the president-elect during such fraught times, especially between us, I guess I would ask back – why wouldn’t we?” she said.
“Five years of political warfare has deeply divided Washington and the country.
“We have been as clear as we know how in expressing our deep concerns about President Trump’s actions and words in the coarsening of public debate.
“But for nearly 80 million Americans, election denialism, public trials, January 6, were not as important as the issues that moved them to send Donald Trump back to the White House with their vote.
“Joe and I realize it’s time to do something different, and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump but also talking with him.”
WATCH:
MSNBC's 'Morning Joe' Hosts Announce 'Different' Direction After Meeting with Trump
However, President Trump has responded to the announcement from “Morning Joe” and suggested they overplayed the nature of the meeting.
Scarborough and Brzezinski “went on their show and claimed to have met with me,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social.
“They made it sound like we had a summit,” he continued.
“The truth is, Joe begged to meet with me after our Big Win, and when I finally agreed, he approached me like a scolded dog.
“He should consider himself lucky I didn’t have him thrown out of beautiful Mar-a-Lago.
“Mika was charming, as usual,” Trump noted.
The defensive tone about speaking to Trump was noteworthy given “Morning Joe” was upset by NBC’s hiring of Trump ally Ronna McDaniel earlier this year as a paid analyst.
The show and several other MSNBC luminaries publicly spoke out against McDaniel appearing on their airwaves.
As a result, her contract was terminated after less than a week.
Brzezinski said Trump’s term would be a “consequential” presidency.
However, she claimed that only time would tell if it was “constructive.”
She railed against threatening political opponents and also noted that impeachments and trials tend to turn politicians into martyrs.
“Just ask Bill Clinton and Donald Trump,” she said.
Scarborough noted that Trump can’t seek another term so this could be an opportunity for “both parties to get to work.”
He also claimed that top Democrats had confided to him they were open to working with Trump if the feeling was mutual.
“Don’t be mistaken,” Scarborough said.
“We’re not here to defend or normalize Donald Trump.
“We’re here to report on him and to hopefully provide you insights that are going to better equip all of us in understanding these deeply unsettling times.”
Brzezinski also revealed Monday that Scarborough called Trump the day after the assassination attempt against him in July.
Other than that, however, they had not even spoken since 2020.
MSNBC kept “Morning Joe” off the air the Monday after the shooting in a controversial move at the time.
Scarborough and Brzezinski, who are married, stood out in the 2016 cycle for their bullishness on Trump’s political chances early in the Republican primary.
They also took heat for frequently hosting and interviewing the future president.
But they became two of his staunchest critics once he took office as most of the corporate media turned against Trump.
Scarborough, a former Florida U.S. congressman, left the Republican Party in 2017 over his disagreements with Trump.
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