In the geography of penitence, Canossa is now in Florida. Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, the couple who host MSNBC’s morning show, performed the exercise and then recounted it on air on November 18. After having bombarded Donald Trump during the campaign, assimilating him to a “fascist” already a “racist”They headed to their Mar-a-Lago residence to move on, off-camera. Surprise: They discovered that the president-elect was eager to find “common ground with Democrats on the most divisive issues”. The same day, Donald Trump confirmed that he intended to proclaim a state of national emergency to mobilize the military in an unprecedented operation to deport illegal immigrants, a key promise of his campaign.
The hosts of “Morning Joe” had not spoken to Donald Trump since March 2020, except for a brief call in July from Joe Scarborough, former Republican representative in the House, the day after the assassination attempt against the candidate in Butler, Pennsylvania. . During the filming, Mika Brzezinski justified himself by invoking the memory of his father, one of the most illustrious American diplomats, Zbigniew Brzezinski, who frequented world leaders although he sometimes distrusted them. “Joe and I realized it was time to do something different and that starts with not just talking about Donald Trump, but talking to him. »
Asked by Fox News about this meeting, the president-elect celebrated an atmosphere “extremely cordial”. Before adding: “I hope this happens with others in the media, even those who have been extremely hostile. » Another MSNBC host, Katie Phang, responded to her colleagues without naming them, on X: “Normalizing Trump is a bad idea. Spot. » This dispute above all shows the elimination of information and facts in news channels in favor of comments, which cost less. The former candidate in the Republican primaries against Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, joked on the same X network: “Let’s be clear, Joe and Mika didn’t suddenly see the light, they saw their audience. They realized they needed Trump to survive. »
General exhaustion
According to data from the Nielsen Institute, the average audience for MSNBC, the most left-wing news channel, and CNN are in free fall since the elections. Meanwhile, the conservative channel Fox News, buoyed by the euphoria of victory, consolidated its dominance among the channels in this category. A total of nine Trump 2 Cabinet appointees, including Pete Hegseth, the new Secretary of Defense, have been or are contributors or hosts to this channel.
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