‘Morning Joe’ Blasted by Keith Olbermann After Making Peace With Trump

Martin Holmes
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Former MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann has blasted Morning Joe co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for meeting with president-elect Donald Trump at his Palm Beach residence, Mar-a-Lago.

The Morning Joe duo, who have been strong critics of Trump’s over the past seven years, revealed the news on Monday morning’s (November 18) edition of their MSNBC program, explaining how they reached out to Trump’s team for an interview.

“Joe and I realized it’s time to do something different and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump but also talking with him,” Brzezinski said, per The Hollywood Reporter. “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? Five years of political warfare has deeply divided Washington and the country.”

“We talked about a lot of issues, including abortion, mass deportation, threats of political retribution against political opponents and media outlets,” Scarborough added. “We talked about that a good bit. It will 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.”

“What we did agree on was to restart communications,” Brzezinski continued.

Scarborough, who also posed for a selfie with a thumbs up beside Trump, added, “I will tell you a lot of Democratic leaders we have talked to this past week since the election have told Mika and me, it’s time for a new approach.”

Olbermann, who hosted Countdown with Keith Olbermann on MSNBC from 2003 to 2011, took to X to blast the Morning Joe co-hosts.

“BREAKING NEWS: I TOLD YOU SO,” Olbermann wrote. “@joenbc and @morningmika – Trump collaborators. Not a word Mr. and Mrs. Vichy Quisling say can ever be trusted again – not that those words ever should have been trusted. They are confidence tricksters – and grifters.”

He followed up in a separate X post, writing, “To political reporters, commentators, liberals, moderates: After this fawning, humiliating, network-destroying surrender, if you go on @Morning_Joe you have endorsed and bought into #VichyMSNBC.”

“Look, this isn’t complex. Joe Scarborough has always been a political whore,” the ex-CNN sports correspondent added. “Btw just wait until [Rachel] Maddow says nothing about this tonight.”

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    RedBowtie

    I first became aware of politics in 1961. Whew, time passes by so quickly. I consider myself lucky, because at 76, I won’t live that many more years. Now, my country as I know it is gone. My years in the military seem wasted now.

    If you have to ask, then surely you do not understand. Just put the USA in the same category as Russia, China, and North Korea. Sorry folks, there is no longer an American Dream.” Just another dictatorship.

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      OrangeStrawberry

      You should replace the T in your name with a D.

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    OrangePumpkin

    I was a regular viewer of Morning Joe. And although I agree that during the MAGA era there has never been such division in this country, and that I pray the chasm between parties can somehow be narrowed through understanding and compromise.

    I do NOT think that Joe and Mika needed to acquiesce to Trump by secretly meeting up with him at Mar Largo, as it once again, is yet another example of people acquiescing to Trump, rather than righteously and actively promoting a massive opposition to resist his tyrannical assault on this Nation! They should have insisted on their encounter being "aired" on MSNBC, and/or via a publicized PODCAST! Trump NEEDS to be CHALLENGED, NOT cow towed too!! I am GREATLY DISAPPOINTED that these 2 TV personalities have by reaching out to the EVIL TRUMP, further enabled his NARCISSISM and DANGEROUS AGENDA!!

    I feel strongly that they did this simply to improve THEIR RATINGS, and AVOID TRUMPS RETRIBUTION against them!!

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    PurpleDucky

    Tune out MSNBC if they keep them on air

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    RedTurtle

    They are trying to save their jobs pure and simple. Give NBC a reason to keep them around, maybe they can get The Donald to be a regular guest. You know “restart the communication”.

    Please, just stop. We got exactly what the country wanted , and it wasn’t them.

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      RedCarrot

      Agree 100%

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    CyanFish

    Mourning Joe

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    BluePaw

    I didn't know Keith Olbermann was still alive. If he came back just to be nasty, continuing to plug his ears to the American voters, he can stay gone. Goodbye to MSNBC and the like, CNN as well.

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    OliveTooth

    Olbermann is just pissed he didn’t think about this first. POS. Really

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