Inside Joe and Mika's Breakup With Trump

Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski may be on the outs with President Trump, but that wasn't always the case. 

A lengthy profile in New York magazine begins with the odd anecdote that when Brzezinski gave her co-host a rabbit in April 2016 as a birthday present, Scarborough actually named it Donald Fluffy Trump. (The name had to be changed to Melania when they realized they got the gender wrong, but another Donald Fluffy Trump exists.) 

The story notes that their Morning Joe show was among the first to treat Trump as a candidate with a chance of winning, and Scarborough even acted as an informal adviser on phone calls. But relations began to sour almost immediately after the inauguration when the pair visited the White House, and Scarborough told Trump that his first week in office hadn't gone well. He says Trump didn't take it well.

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