Joe Scarborough And Mika Brzezinski Detail The Moment They Cut Ties With President Trump

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski don’t have an identity. I know that sounds dramatic, but hear me out. There’s only one reason they’re in the news: It’s their opposition to Trump. That’s the only reason people care about them. Let’s be real. If your identity rests in resisting one specific person, you need to get a freaking hobby. (No Joe. That does NOT mean you should write more songs.)

I stand by the identity theory, because they’re STILL riding that wave. That’s the ONLY reason people bother to talk about them anymore. That’s the ONLY reason they’re on the cover of New York Magazine.

In the latest edition, Joe and Mika detail how their relationship finally crumbled. Apparently, they were still on “Fine-I’ll-Eat-Lunch-With-You” terms with Trump back in February. Trump invited them to a lunch at the White House, along with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner. That’s when they realized he was “long gone.”

At that point the two already believed that President Trump was ‘long gone,’ with Scarborough claiming that winning the election ‘has just amplified as of his insecurities,’ a conclusion he came too just hours after the inauguration when he got a phone call from the new Commander-in-Chief.

 

‘I talked to him for three seconds. You know when you talk to somebody and you know they’re gone,’ explained Scarborough.
‘Oh, this place is so great!,’ he recalled the President saying during that call, while also ‘talking about the phone system and all the, basically, toys, new toys he had — not his words.’

 

Scarborough added: ‘I remember getting off the phone really fast and, to Mika, I said, ‘He’s long gone. This is bad.’

Brzezinski– who absolutely LOVES to pull other Trump women into her personal feud– said Ivanka was frustrated with her father that day and actually ended up yelling at him.

I cannot picture Ivanka yelling. Her voice is too soothing. Moving on.

‘When I spoke to Ivanka that morning, she was like, “We’re really going to talk to him about some of these things that I want to do,”‘ recalled Brzezinski.

‘And I was all about supporting anything that’s good for empowering women, whether it’s a Republican as president or a Democrat. I’m open to hearing it all.’

Ivanka was still months away from actually having a formal position in the White House at the time, but that did not excuse the way her father treated her that day said Brzezinski.

She claimed that the First Daughter tried to bring up a discussion of woman’s issues, but was ignored by her father, who eventually offered up a ‘what?’

That eventually resulted in Ivanka shouting out ‘Women!’ and then ‘Woah-men!’ for emphasis said Brzezisnki.

Ivanka also began drawing the figure of a woman in the air with her fingers to try and help her father.

 

According to Brzezinski, Trump finally responded to his frustrated daughter’s outburst by saying, “Oh, women. Yeah, honey. Yeah, honey. We can do that.”

That’s a big deal to Mika? You know how many times I’ve had similar conversations with my parents? Geez.

Meanwhile, Joe told Trump he thought he had a crappy first week in office, and Trump couldn’t believe it.

He said that in the wake of telling President Trump that he thought week one went ‘not very well,’ the rest of the lunch was spent watching President Trump as he shouted out to those nearby: ‘Hey, can you believe this? This guy doesn’t think we had a great week!’

 

That response made Scarborough realize that his criticism was the ‘first time anybody had told him that the first week didn’t go really well.’

Also, Trump bruised their egos by forgetting every little detail of their lives.

On top of all this, President Trump also kicked things off that day by asking Brzezinski if this was her first trip to the White House.
Brzezinski explained that she first visited when she was 9 because her father Zbigniew Brzezinski was the national security adviser to former president Jimmy Carter.

President Trump was not deterred however, and tried to bounce back by then saying: ‘Well, I bet it was your first time, Joe.’

Scarborough informed President Trump that he got the chance to previously visit as well when he served in Congress two decades prior.

‘That was pretty much it for both of us,’ said Scarborough.

One week later, Joe and Mika had Stephen Miller on their show, and Trump wasn’t happy with how they treated him.

The White House said there was ‘no screaming’ on the call, which both ‘Morning Joe’ hosts dispute, but there was anger.

Scarborough said that he explained to his still-friend that he was taking issue with the idea that the ‘president’s authority was not to be challenged.’

 

President Trump did not respond well according to Scarborough.
‘I know what you’re like: You think because you came over to the White House you have to prove you’re independent!’ Scarborough claimed President Trump said to him during that conversation.
President Trump followed that up by stating: ‘I could’ve invited Hannity over here!’

Scarborough said that he urged President Trump to invite Hannity next time, because he and Brzezinski had no plans to ‘hold our punches because you give us fish!’

Here’s a White House official’s account of the convo, according to the Daily Mail:

‘The president was like, “I’m the f***ing president. I take responsibility for this. Stop talking about my staff,”‘ said the unnamed official.

‘It was very endearing, actually, and nobody would ever give him credit for that, but he was really taking responsibility and trying to protect Stephen, which was lovely because they had been really personal to him.’

One month later, Jared Kushner tried to make them kiss and make up, to no avail.

Jared’s always the one that tries to bring us back together,’ said Scarborough of the failed reunion.

 

He went on to note: ‘But, again, I think the biggest shock for Donald — for the president — is that, regardless of whether we saw him or not, we were going to say whatever we wanted to say.’

And there you have it. Since then, Trump has tweeted about Low IQ Mika’s facelift, and I don’t think they’ll ever forgive him for that.

Now you know.

h/t Daily Mail