MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough reacted to social media criticism on Tuesday of his assembly with President-elect Donald Trump, and mentioned there was a “large disconnect” between social media and actual life.
“Yesterday, I noticed for the primary time what an enormous disconnect there was between social media and the actual world as a result of we had been flooded with telephone calls from folks all day, actually all over the world, all very constructive, very supportive, ‘I perceive what you probably did,’ and so forth,” Scarborough mentioned.
Scarborough, alongside along with his spouse and co-host Mika Brzezinski, revealed on Monday that they met with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Friday.
“However infrequently I’d get a textual content or name from somebody going, ‘Oh, man, I hope you’re doing okay,’” Scarborough added on Tuesday, referring to criticism the pair obtained on social media.
“All of us will do the perfect we will do, and we’re all working in the direction of a greater America,” Scarborough mentioned.
Brzezinksi added, “Take it daily, folks.”
Brzezinksi defined on Monday that the hosts wished to re-open communications with the president-elect, regardless of being a few of his greatest critics within the media.
“Joe and I noticed it’s time to do one thing completely different, and that begins with not solely speaking about Donald Trump, but in addition speaking with him,” she mentioned.
“Don’t be mistaken,” Scarborough added. “We’re not right here to defend or normalize Donald Trump. We’re right here to report on him and to hopefully present you insights which can be going to raised equip all of us in understanding these deeply unsettling occasions.”
Co-hosts of “The View,” Ana Navarro and Sunny Hostin, had been important of the assembly on Monday, as Hostin prompt the pair weren’t true journalists.
“I feel there’s lots of people who’re most likely taking a look at what Joe and Mika did and discover it opportunistic. There are individuals who change their stripes, or perhaps their spots, I ought to say, at this time, relying on who’s in energy and what advantages them. I don’t know that that’s what they’re doing, and to me, it’s a to-be-determined scenario, as a result of proper now, it’s the transition,” Navarro mentioned.
“We don’t know what he’s going to do as president. We don’t know what they’re going to do if he commits abuses of energy as president. So, , all people has to dwell with their choice. Everyone has to take a look at themselves within the mirror. I’m good,” she added.
Hostin mentioned it wasn’t crucial in her view to go and “kiss his ring” to have the ability to correctly cowl Trump.
“I don’t assume you want to sit down for 90 minutes at Mar-a-Lago and kiss his ring to have the ability to communicate reality and to have the ability to cowl a narrative,” she mentioned. “So perhaps they’re not journalists within the true sense. Possibly they’re saying that they’re opinion journalists, however we now have to keep in mind that Trump is the man who ushered within the period of pretend information.”
