Monday morning, MSNBC's wedding co-hosts Joe Scarborough And Mika Brzezinski informed its loyal audience of nearly a million viewers that they had recently ventured south from their home in Jupiter to Mar-a-Lago. There, for the first time in seven years, they met Donald Trump-the same man they passed last time several years vehemently pilloried. Reading from their respective teleprompters with well-choreographed solemnity, the couple relayed this relatively benign news as if they were revealing their involvement in a top-secret nuclear negotiation. Or, as CNN puts it John Berman cheekily broadcast it on the rival network, “as if it were the Yalta summit.”
Anticipating some backlash from their mostly liberal coalition, Joe and Mika framed the Trump meeting as an attempt to foster constructive dialogue. “To those who ask why we would talk to the president-elect in such tense times, especially between us, I guess I would say: 'Why wouldn't we?' “, Mika said. “Joe and I realized it was time to do something different, and that starts not only by talking about Donald Trump, but also by with him.” Later, Mika also alluded to his father, Zbigniew Brzezinskia senior American diplomat who served as Jimmy CarterThe National Security Advisor of . She explained that maintaining an open dialogue was “a task shared by journalists and commentators alike”.
