MSNBC host Rachel Maddow is reportedly angry at her Morning Joe colleagues for meeting with Donald Trump after he won the presidential election.

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski visited the president-elect at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, just over two weeks ago to “reboot communications” and establish a “new approach” ahead of his second term.

According to a US Sun report, Maddow and other hosts at the troubled liberal network are calling this move by the married Morning Joe co-hosts “opportunistic.”

“The meeting at Mar-a-Lago caused a lot of tension among the teams, and many other stars … see both Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski as opportunistic and with very low self-esteem, forgetting their values ​​of being journalists with independence and independence. “Integrity,” said a journalist who has worked at MSNBC for 15 years.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the journalist made it clear who has a problem with Morning Joe’s move from calling Trump a fascist and an admirer of Adolf Hitler to having a cordial meeting with him to clarify coverage going forward.

“They’ve lost a lot of credibility.” Rachel Maddow is angry with her, as are other presenters like Chris Hayes and Ari Melber. “They are so frustrated,” the journalist said.

“It was such a stupid thing,” they added. “They have bent the knee to ensure that they are not targeted by Trump and the entire MAGA world.”

This comes as MSNBC is in complete turmoil following Trump’s election victory. The network’s viewership has fallen precipitously, Comcast is considering spinning off the cable channel and Maddow agreed to a $5 million pay cut in her new contract.

According to Brzezinski, her reason for reaching out to Trump was to allay the fears of her viewers who are worried about his Cabinet picks.

At that point, Trump had already named Fox News host Pete Hegseth as defense secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of health and human services, and former congressman Matt Gaetz as head of the Justice Department – who later withdrew from the nomination process, paving the way for the former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi takes his place.

Scarborough said the three “discussed many topics, including abortion, mass deportation, threats of political retaliation against political opponents and the media.”

Scarborough, who left the Republican Party in 2017 for supporting Trump, shared that they “did not agree on many issues, and we told him that.”

Insiders reportedly fear this will damage MSNBC’s reputation as a reliable anti-Trump network.

“Most of us don’t want to be part of it,” the journalist told the US Sun. “Some are thinking about joining other media organizations where we can do our work with respect and values ​​to bring the truth to the table without being pressured by those in power.”

The backlash against the two hosts has been immense in the weeks since the controversial meeting, with people on both sides of the aisle tearing them apart.

The View’s Ana Navarro criticized the couple, accusing them of “changing their stance” because of “who is in power” and calling the meeting “opportunistic.”

On the MAGA side, Megyn Kelly responded much more sternly, saying on her show, “I was looking for a way to respond appropriately, drawing on my 10 years as a litigator in addition to my now 20 years as a journalist and…” I think I found the perfect phrase: “F*** yourself.”

“Go fuck yourself.” Fuck you, you dishonest jokes from fake journalists. What an absurd farce… Which one was disingenuous? Is he Hitler? Or do we now speak truth to power and find a way to talk to and work with Donald Trump? Which one was a lie?’

Scarborough and Brzezinski initially dismissed the criticism, saying it showed there was a “massive disconnect” between “social media and the real world.”

Still, Morning Joe suffered a huge ratings drop after the Trump meeting.

There are also rumors that the couple got together with Trump for more nefarious reasons.

An anonymous source told Puck News that they feared the new president would have allowed Gaetz, as attorney general, to investigate conspiracy theories surrounding the deaths of Scarborough’s interns in 2001, when he was still a Republican congressman in Florida.

An autopsy revealed that 28-year-old Lori Bolterstein Klausutis hit her head on a desk after collapsing from an undiagnosed heart valve irregularity. However, Trump called for a new investigation into the case.

Sources told CNN that Trump has been feuding with the Morning Joe hosts for years and they have met with him to hopefully curb his rhetoric against them.

Although Brzezinski and Scarborough maintained a cordial media relationship during Trump’s first presidential bid in 2016, they clashed with him after he shocked the world by defeating failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

Scarborough and Brzezinski became highly critical of Trump’s presidency soon after he entered the White House, repeatedly condemning him on their morning news show.

Brzezinski, in particular, has repeatedly teased Trump about his “mental illness” and speculated that he needed to see a psychiatrist.

In June 2017, Trump responded to the couple on social media, recalling how “low IQ Crazy Mika along with Psycho Joe” came to Mar-a-Lago three nights in a row on New Year’s Eve and was desperate to spend time with him.