MSNBC contributor Jennifer Rubin is encouraging a boycott of “Morning Joe” after its hosts revealed that they had a gathering with President-elect Donald Trump.
“Morning Joe” co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, two of Trump’s fiercest critics, shocked the nation on Monday by disclosing their go to to Mar-a-Lago on Friday, suggesting that reviving communications and increasing an olive department was the most effective path ahead following Trump’s historic election victory.Â
“Disgusting,” Rubin reacted to the assembly on the social media platform Bluesky.Â
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“Morning Joe” hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough focus on their assembly with President-elect Donald Trump. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
Rubin later ratcheted up the rhetoric, encouraging her followers to show off “Morning Joe” to ship a message.Â
“The market works nice. You may cease watching Morning Joe anytime,” Rubin wrote Monday night.Â
She then adopted, “On MJ: When you do not respect the viewers you might have, betray that viewers and lose their belief you’re [going] to lose plenty of them. I’ve seen this film.”
Rubin, additionally a columnist for The Washington Put up, was doubtless alluding to the backlash the paper obtained from its liberal readers final month after the Put up’s billionaire proprietor Jeff Bezos halted its endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, one thing Rubin, too, has been outspoken about.Â
Neither Rubin nor MSNBC responded to Fox Information Digital’s requests for remark.Â
‘MORNING JOE’ CO-HOSTS HOLD FACE-TO-FACE MEETING WITH TRUMP FOR FIRST TIME IN SEVEN YEARS’
MSNBC contributor Jennifer Rubin is encouraging a boycott of “Morning Joe” after its hosts revealed that they had a gathering with President-elect Donald Trump. ((Photograph by: William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC Newswire/NBCUniversal through Getty Photographs))
Friday’s assembly was the primary time that they had seen Trump in seven years, Brzezinski mentioned, and Scarborough added that they did not see “eye to eye on a number of points, and we instructed him so.” Scarborough mentioned they went over such subjects as abortion, mass deportation, and threats of retribution in opposition to political opponents and media shops. The assembly, in line with the hosts, was about an settlement to “restart communications.”
“For these asking why we might go converse to the president-elect throughout such fraught occasions, particularly between us, I assume I might ask again – why wouldn’t we?” Brzezinski mentioned. “5 years of political warfare has deeply divided Washington and the nation. Now we have been as clear as we all know how in expressing our deep considerations about President Trump’s actions and phrases within the coarsening of public debate.Â
“However for almost 80 million Individuals, election denialism, public trials, January 6, weren’t as necessary as the problems that moved them to ship Donald Trump again to the White Home with their vote. Joe and I understand it’s time to do one thing completely different, and that begins with not solely speaking about Donald Trump, but additionally speaking with him.”
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Scarborough and Brzezinski continuously interviewed Trump on their present in the course of the 2016 Republican main. (REUTERS/Scott Morgan)
Trump spoke with Fox Information Digital on Monday in regards to the “extraordinarily cordial” assembly he had with the MSNBC hosts.
“I obtained a name from Joe Scarborough requesting a gathering for him and Mika, and I agreed that it could be an excellent factor if such a gathering passed off,” Trump mentioned in an interview. “Many issues had been mentioned, and I very a lot appreciated the truth that they needed to have open communication … In some ways, it’s too dangerous that it wasn’t accomplished way back.
“The assembly led to a really constructive method, and we agreed to talk sooner or later,” he added.
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Fox Information’ David Rutz and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.Â
