President Donald Trump and former Republican congressman and current morning show host Joe Scarborough met in the White House the morning of the president’s address to a joint session of Congress. MSNBC confirmed that the two met for about 15 minutes in D.C. on the day of the most important speech to-date of the Trump presidency.
The meeting came after White House aides told Bloomberg news and the Associated Press that part of the reason the president had been tweeting less (at least before this weekend) was because he had sworn off the MSNBC show Morning Joe. Not one to lose a dedicated viewer, it seems, Scarborough decided to to meet with the president in person.
From Politico, who first reported the meeting:
The White House aide who spoke to the AP went so far as to claim that Trump had entirely ended his habit of watching “Morning Joe,” though co-host Mika Brzezinski told the AP he made similar claims during the campaign and then Trump would tell them he watches “every day.”
And sources close to the president told POLITICO last week they were pushing back on what they said was Scarborough overplaying his relationship with the president, an impression they said was incorrect and made it seem as though Trump was constantly calling Scarborough for advice. The opposite is true, these sources said, claiming that it’s Scarborough always calling Trump.
But even if Trump has turned off “Morning Joe,” there Scarborough was on Tuesday, visiting with Trump on the morning of his most important speech since his inauguration. Scarborough on Tuesday also met with Trump son-in-law and top adviser Jared Kushner.
This makes the third off-camera meeting with the president the pundit. Both Scarborough and Brezezinski met with the then-president-elect over New Year’s and Scarborough had lunch with Trump during his first week in office.
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