Morning Joe meltdown after guest said host is scared of Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Brzezinski shared that Trump was cheerful during their meeting and seemed interested in finding common ground with Democrats.
56% : We are not here to defend or normalize Donald Trump.' 'We are here to report on him and to hopefully provide you insights that are going to better equip all of us in understanding these deeply unsettling times.' Trump told Fox News that he took the meeting in order to 'Make America Great Again, it is very important, if not vital, to have a free, fair and open media or press.' 'I am not looking for retribution, grandstanding or to destroy people who treated me very unfairly,' he added.
47% : In many ways, it's too bad that it wasn't done long ago.' Trump used to be a routine contributor to Morning Joe, and Scarborough was an early cheerleader for the billionaire's maverick bid for the GOP nomination in 2016.
47% : With Trump in the White House and Scarborough engaged to co-host Brzezinski he began cementing his show's identity as an outpost of opposition to the new administration.
43% : After the meeting was announced, Brzezinski said they decided to reach out to Trump due to their viewers expressing fear over his election win.
33% : He then apologized if he felt they had blindsided Frum with their apology but reiterated that nothing they did was because of Trump, or anyone in a position of influence or power.
31% : The anchor then clearly wanted to address the criticism of himself and Brzezinski in the weeks since they made amends with Trump in a surprise Mar-a-Lago meeting.
30% : But relations soured as Trump pulled off a surprise victory in the Republican primaries and began to look like a serious challenger to the Democrats' Hillary Clinton.
27% : An autopsy found that Lori Bolterstein Klausutis, 28, had hit her head on a desk after collapsing from an undiagnosed heart-valve irregularity but Trump called for a fresh investigation into the case.
25% : Frum, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush who has since pivoted to the left in the era of Trump, made a joke about Defense Secretary nominee and ex-Fox News anchor Pete Hegseth's reported drinking, saying: 'If you're too drunk for Fox News, you're very, very drunk indeed' After co-host Mika Brzezinski apologized for the comment on-air, Frum wrote a column in The Atlantic later that day titled 'The Sound of Fear On Air.' On Thursday's show, Scarborough was clearly angered by Frum's attempt to paint himself and Brzezinski as cowardly toward the president-elect.
19% : The allegations earned Trump his first rebuke from Twitter, which would eventually kick him off the platform altogether in January 2021.

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