MSNBC is desperate. They’re terrified. No, it’s not because they truly believe the coming 2nd term of President Donald Trump is actually a threat to democracy, a claim they often repeated but never believed.
They’re desperate and terrified because they need Trump if they have any hope of surviving as a network. So, they sent their most famous married show hosts, Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, to beg Trump to help them with their ratings.
Of course, they claimed it was to “open communications” moving forward, as if this is some grand gesture of goodwill instead of their attempt to mitigate an existential threat. In reality, they played on Trump’s ego and kissed the ring like Amerigo Bonasera asking Vito Corleone for help in the opening scene of The Godfather.
“Be my friend?” he asked.
Joe and Mika asked the same.
Joe Scarborough and his wife, Mika, just announced that they met with President Trump on Friday for the first time in seven years and agreed to open communications moving forward.
Any thoughts? pic.twitter.com/ZMPl9aSmPR
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) November 18, 2024
The pair, who Trump has called “Psycho Joe” and “Crazy Mika” in the seven years since they last spoke, were likely begged if not threatened by MSNBC executives. Corporate media as a whole cannot afford to be ignored by Trump or his administration. Many things are going to be happening over the next four years and any legacy news outlet that wants to survive will need to be talking with the administration, not just about them.
This isn’t just about Trump, though. It’s about Trump’s growing base of supporters who proved on Election Day that the lies of corporate media are no longer driving their thoughts. If corporate media can no longer be the “Arbiters of Truth” that they’ve pretended to be in the past, then they’ll need to be the disseminators of the Trump agenda if they want to keep an audience.
