Nikki Haley has blasted lefty MSNBC “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for sitting down with President-elect Donald Trump despite years of viciously criticizing him — suggesting they only did so to boost ratings.
Haley, a former Republican presidential candidate, laid into Scarborough and Brzezinski after they revealed on air Monday they had a face-to-face with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in a bid to “restart communications.”
“Let’s be clear, Joe and Mika didn’t suddenly see the light, they saw their ratings,” the former US ambassador to the United Nations wrote on X on Monday.
“They realized they needed Trump for their survival.”
She later doubled down, saying on her SiriusXM show: “I mean, let’s be clear. They saw the ratings tank and they realized, ‘Oh, we better get on with Donald Trump or else we’re not going to have a show.’”
Haley ripped the “Morning Joe” hosts, too, for repeatedly tearing her up on their show whenever she spoke about Trump.
“Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough tore me up when I said anything about voting for Donald Trump or what I agreed with him on, even though I criticized him when I thought he was wrong,” she said.
“I praised him when I thought he was good. They tore me up,” Haley said of the pair before their sudden about-face.
Haley was among scores of critics to rip into the defeated MSNBC hosts for their flip-flopping hypocrisy, given they have repeatedly slammed Trump in the past as a “fascist” and compared him to Adolf Hitler.
Others blasted Scarborough and Brzezinski for their “shamelessness” and accused them of “bending the knee” by arranging their first sit-down with Trump in seven years.
The duo opened Monday’s show with the shocking revelation that they arranged the “personal” meeting with Trump after conceding that voters had overwhelmingly made their choice.
“Five years of political warfare has deeply divided Washington and the country. We have been as clear as we know how in expressing our deep concerns about President Trump’s actions and words in the coarsening of public debate,” Brzezinski told viewers.
“But for nearly 80 million Americans, election denialism, public trials, January 6th were not as important as the issues that moved them to send Donald Trump back to the White House with their vote.
“Joe and I realize it’s time to do something different, and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, but also talking with him,” she added.
