Too Much TV: Your TV Talking Points For Monday, November 18th, 2024

The humiliation is almost inevitable

Here's everything you need to know about the world of television for Friday, November 15th, 2024:

THE HUMILIATION IS ALMOST INEVITABLE
Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski announced Monday morning they had traveled last Friday to Mar-A-Lago to hang with President-elect Donald Trump.

And as I wrote earlier today on AllYourScreens, I was not thrilled about the move:

I have heard my share of backdoor self-important puffing up of egos, but listening to Mika comparing her role as cable news morning show co-host to that of her father, who has an advisor to LBJ and the National Security Advisor of the United States under Jimmy Carter, certainly requires an impressive amount of self-worth and/or self-delusion.

But let's unpack this a bit more. So Joe and Mika managed to get through the entire Biden presidency without speaking to Donald Trump. They were clearly capable of pontificating about the state of the union without speaking to the former president. And yet within ten days of…