The ratings for MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” nosedived after co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski revealed that they met with President-elect Donald Trump on Friday.
The meeting at Mar-a-Lago came after the two had called Trump a fascist and a threat to democracy among other derogatory statements over recent years.
Brzezinski began Monday’s program during the 6 a.m. ET hour saying that they had requested some time with the president-elect.
“On Friday, we were given the opportunity to do just that. Joe and I went to Mar-a-Lago to meet personally with President-elect Trump. It was the first time we have seen him in seven years,” she recounted.
Scarborough then jumped in saying that they talked about a lot of issues.
“It’s going to come as no surprise to anybody who watches this show, has watched it over the past year or over the past decade, that we didn’t see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues, and we told him so,” he said.
Brzezinski then said, “What we did agree on was to restart communications.”
Joe and Mika went to Mar a Lago to talk with Trump over the weekend. First face-to-face meeting in seven years. “We didn’t see eye-to-eye on