MSNBC contributor fuels ‘Morning Joe’ boycott next Trump assembly: They don’t ‘recognize’ their target market

MSNBC contributor Jennifer Rubin is encouraging a boycott of “Morning Joe” next its hosts seen 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, stunned the public on Monday by means of disclosing their talk over with to Mar-a-Lago on Friday, suggesting that reviving communications and lengthening an olive segment was once the most efficient trail ahead following Trump’s ancient election victory. 

“Disgusting,” Rubin reacted to the assembly at the social media platform Bluesky. 

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Rubin after ratcheted up the rhetoric, encouraging her fans to show off “Morning Joe” to ship a message. 

“The market works great. You can stop watching Morning Joe anytime,” Rubin wrote Monday evening. 

She then followed, “On MJ: If you don’t appreciate the audience you have, betray that audience and lose their trust you are [going] to lose lots of them. I have seen this movie.”

Rubin, additionally a columnist for The Washington Publish, was once most probably alluding to the backlash the paper gained from its broad readers utmost pace next the Publish’s billionaire proprietor Jeff Bezos halted its endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris, one thing Rubin, too, has been outspoken about. 

Neither Rubin nor MSNBC replied to Fox Information Virtual’s needs for remark. 

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MSNBC contributor Jennifer Rubin is encouraging a boycott of “Morning Joe” next its hosts seen that they had a gathering with President-elect Donald Trump. ((Photograph by means of: William B. Plowman/NBC/NBC Newswire/NBCUniversal by way of Getty Pictures))

Friday’s assembly was once the primary week that they had perceptible Trump in seven years, Brzezinski stated, and Scarborough added that they didn’t see “eye to eye on a lot of issues, and we told him so.” Scarborough stated they went over such subjects as abortion, lump deportation, and ultimatum of retribution in opposition to political warring parties and media shops. The assembly, in keeping with the hosts, was once about an commitment to “restart communications.”

“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?” Brzezinski stated. “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. 

“However for almost 80 million American citizens, election denialism, crowd trials, January 6, weren’t as notable as the problems that moved them to ship Donald Trump again to the White Space with their vote. Joe and I understand it’s week to do one thing other, and that begins with now not simplest speaking about Donald Trump, but additionally speaking with him.”

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Scarborough and Brzezinski frequently interviewed Trump on their show during the 2016 Republican primary.  (REUTERS/Scott Morgan)

Trump spoke with Fox News Digital on Monday about the “extraordinarily cordial” meeting he had with the MSNBC hosts.

“I gained a choice from Joe Scarborough asking for a gathering for him and Mika, and I indubitably that it might be a just right factor if any such assembly took park,” Trump said in an interview. “Many stuff had been mentioned, and I very a lot preferred the truth that they sought after to have unmistakable verbal exchange … In some ways, it’s too evil that it wasn’t executed way back.

“The meeting ended in a very positive manner, and we agreed to speak in the future,” he added.

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Fox Information’ David Rutz and Brooke Singman contributed to this document.