Rachel Maddow Furious Over Morning Joe & Mika’s Visit to See President Trump

Rachel Maddow is fuming over Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s Mar-a-Lago meetup with President Trump.

The Morning Joe duo claims their visit was a noble attempt to “soothe viewers’ fears.”

But Maddow sees it as joining the other side.

Meanwhile, MSNBC’s ratings are nosediving.

Maddow took a pay cut.

And Comcast might still sell them.

So, Joe & Mika clearly see the era of attacking Trump is ending.

Will Maddow?

Daily Mail reports:

MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow is reportedly furious with her Morning Joe colleagues for meeting with Donald Trump after he won the presidential election.

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski visited the president-elect a little over two weeks ago at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, to ‘restart communications’ and set a ‘new approach’ ahead of his second term.

Maddow, along with other hosts at the troubled liberal network, are calling this move by the married Morning Joe co-hosts ‘opportunistic,’ according to a report in The US Sun.

‘The meeting at Mar-a-Lago created a lot of tension in the teams, and many other stars…see both Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski as opportunistic and with very low self respect and forgetting their values of being journalists with independence and integrity,’ said a journalist who’s worked at MSNBC for 15 years.

Speaking on the condition of anonymity, the journalist made it clear who has a problem with Morning Joe pivoting from calling Trump a fascist and an admirer of Adolf Hitler to having a cordial meeting with him to figure out coverage going forward.

‘They have lost a lot of credibility. Rachel Maddow is pissed at them as are other presenters like Chris Hayes and Ari Melber. They are so frustrated,’ the journalist said.

‘It was such a stupid thing to do,’ they added. ‘They have bent the knee to ensure not being targeted by Trump and the whole MAGA world.’

This comes as MSNBC has devolved into utter turmoil following Trump’s win. The network’s viewership has taken a precipitous dive, Comcast is considering spinning off the cable channel and Maddow agreed to a $5 million pay cut in her new contract.

According to Brzezinski, their rationale for reaching out to Trump was to soothe the fears of their viewers who are worried about his cabinet picks.

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At that point, Trump had already selected Fox News host Pete Hegseth for Defense Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health Secretary, and former Congressman Matt Gaetz to lead the Department of Justice – who later withdrew from the nomination process, paving the way for former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi to take his place.

Scarborough said the three ‘talked about a lot of issues, including abortion, mass deportation, threats of political retribution against political opponents and media outlets.’

Scarborough, who left the Republican party in 2017 because of its embrace of Trump, shared that they ‘didn’t see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues and we told him so.’

Insiders are reportedly worried that this will devalue the MSNBC’s reputation as a reliably anti-Trump network.

‘Most of us don’t want to be part of that,’ the journalist told the US Sun. ‘Some are thinking about trying to join other media organizations where we can do our job with respect and values to bring truth to the table without being pressured by the people in power.’

After calling Trump a fascist and N@zi
for the past 8 years,

Low IQ Joe and crazy Mika went to Mar-a-Lago to kiss the ring 😂 pic.twitter.com/d8h6Y0pRgh

— 🇺🇸𝕄𝔸𝔾𝔸 𝑵𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒚 ن ♱ (@45LVNancy) November 18, 2024

Morning Joe and Mika reveal that they traveled to Mar Lago on Friday afternoon and met with President Trump privately.pic.twitter.com/u6uMnZ9DWr

— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) November 18, 2024

Their liberal viewers didn’t like this.

MSNBC ‘Morning Joe’ ratings tank after Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski meet Trump at Mar-a-Lago https://t.co/00E7oRDuaK pic.twitter.com/SxVzc6OPaJ

— New York Post (@nypost) November 20, 2024