President-elect Donald Trump confirmed on Monday that MSNBC “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski met with him privately at his Mar-a-Lago estate in southern Florida, calling the discussion “extremely cordial.”
Trump told Fox News that he met with the MSNBC hosts on Friday morning after Scarborough and Brzezinski had requested to talk with him. The “Morning Joe” anchors told viewers on their show Monday morning the meeting was their first face-to-face discussion with Trump in seven years, saying that they agreed with Trump “to restart communications.”
Trump said the leftist hosts “congratulated me on running a ‘great and flawless campaign, one for the history books,’ which I really believe it was, but it was also a campaign where I worked long and hard — perhaps longer and harder than any presidential candidate in history.”
“We talked about various Cabinet members — both announced and to be announced. As expected, they like some very much, but not all,” Trump added. “The meeting ended in a very positive manner, and we agreed to speak in the future.”
Brzezinski said that Trump appeared “cheerful,” “upbeat,” and “interested in finding common ground with Democrats on some of the most divisive issues.”