‘Morning Joe’ Goes Into Full Meltdown Mode Over Trump’s Day One

Morning Joe’s softer approach to President Donald Trump has shown signs of strain just hours into his new administration.

Co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, who expressed a desire to reset their off-and-on-again relationship with Trump in the wake of his election victory, offered seething responses to a show regular speaking positively Tuesday about Trump’s first day in office.

Guest Donny Deutsch claimed Trump had “co-opted America’s heartbeat,” and that he was even gaining support from anti-MAGA Americans for his decision to pardon Jan 6. rioters.

Brzezinski replied with obvious disdain, speaking over him, saying, “If America’s ‘heartbeat’ is to have J6 hostage families standing behind him, that marketing visual is quite something.”

“I’m not saying you might not like that,” Deutsch tried to reply. “People will absorb it, because he gives them what they want in other places.”

“I want the Democrats to learn that you can even get away with things as ridiculous as that if you’re feeding people what they want to hear, what they need,” he continued.

Scarborough also turned on Deutsch, saying that Trump’s decisions were no more than “the bread and the circuses ... that entertains them.”

“Underneath that are things that he’s doing, breaking one norm after another,” he continued. “After promising that he was going to break every norm from the very beginning.”

Scarborough also interjected after “Way Too Early” Segment host Ali Vitali said, “Support Trump or not… this is how it is now."

Scarborough chose to remind viewers at this point that the election was close, saying, “This was a 1.5 percent election, and Republicans have a one-vote majority in the House.”

Morning Joe was strongly criticized over its choice to visit President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago after the election, which has apparently contributed to a huge dive in the network’s ratings.

MSNBC is reported to have lost nearly half its audience since the election.

Former CNN host Don Lemon also recently ripped into Morning Joe’s talk of being civil to Trump, a message that is clearly having some impact on MSNBC’s flagship morning show.

“Civility does not mean befriending people or forgoing your morals and your principles and your character,” Lemon said on his Don Lemon Show on YouTube. “If someone disrespects my loved one, I don’t have to smile in their f---ing face!”