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Subject: Rosie O'Donnell Melts Down Over MSNBC Hosts Meeting With Trump: 'Despicable' - "For months you were telling us =?ISO-8859-1?Q?he=92s?= the worst thing ... and then you go kiss his ring."
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Leftist activist and TV personality Rosie O’Donnell expressed her fury over 
MSNBC hosts recently traveling to Florida to meet with President-elect Donald 
Trump.

The comedian vented about the meeting on TikTok. “Turn off the TV, because 
it’s like, impending doom, impending doom,” O’Donnell says in the clip. “But 
without a warning, they’re just like, ‘Well, Trump nominated so and so.’ Not 
like, ‘Holy shit, people. You’re not gonna believe this. We gotta do 
something.’ That’s what the newscaster should be saying. But they’re not. 
Hopeless.”

She continued, “So Mika [Brzezinski] and Joe [Scarborough] went down to Mar-
a-Lago to kiss the ring. So, last time I ever watch ‘Morning Joe,’ period. 
End of statement. Unreal, unreal. For months you were telling us he’s the 
worst thing that could happen to this country and democracy. And then you go 
kiss his ring. Despicable. Despicable you; both of you.”

O’Donnell was referencing the meeting Brzezinski and Scarborough had with 
Trump on Friday, which has generated a lot of criticism from Democrats. That 
meeting was the first time they had spoken face to face with Trump in seven 
years, The Daily Wire previously reported, and it was done in an effort “to 
restart communications.”

“Morning Joe” co-hosts Scarborough and Brzezinski, who are married, said they 
talked to Trump about several controversial issues, from immigration to 
abortion, and did not agree on much but stressed that having open 
communication was the main goal.

“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 said. “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.”

“But for nearly 80 million Americans, election denialism, public trials, 
January 6, were not as important as the issues that moved them to send Donald 
Trump back to the White House with their vote,” she continued. “Joe and I 
realize it’s time to do something different, and that starts with not only 
talking about Donald Trump, but also talking with him.”

Other MSNBC hosts were also outraged that the meeting happened, with 
contributor Jennifer Rubin calling it “disgusting” on Bluesky, the social 
media platform started by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey that’s become 
popular with leftists.

Host Katie Phang posted on X, “Normalizing Trump is a bad idea. Period.”

Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show,’ answered Brzezinski’s 
rhetorical question about why wouldn’t they meet with Trump. “Uh…Because you 
said he was Hitler.”

Even conservatives are questioning the motives of the meeting. Nikki Haley, 
who lost the GOP presidential nomination to Trump, weighed in, posting on X 
Monday, “Let’s be clear, Joe and Mika didn’t suddenly see the light, they saw 
their ratings. They realized they needed Trump for their survival.”

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