“Morning Joe” co-anchor Joe Scarborough has responded to the criticism that followed his meeting with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, saying there is a “massive disconnect” between “social media and the real world.”
Scarborough and co-host Mika Brzezinski, who have been some of the most vocal cable-news critics of Trump in recent years, said Monday that they’d sat down with the president-elect at his Florida estate three days earlier, and agreed to “restart communications.”
The announcement received intense backlash, which Scarborough and Brzezinksi, who are married, addressed on their MSNBC show Tuesday.
“Yesterday I saw for the first time what a massive disconnect there was between social media and the real world,” the former Republican congressman said.
“We were flooded with phone calls from people all day, literally around the world,” he went on. “Very positive, very supportive, going: ‘I understand why you did what you did,’ et cetera, et cetera, et…
