According to CNN, MSNBC decided not to air Monday’s “Morning Joe” program because of fears that the host may make offensive comments following Saturday’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
Since Saturday night, NBC News, NBC News NOW, and MSNBC have continued to provide continuous breaking news coverage due to the seriousness and intricacy of this developing story.
According to CNN’s source, MSNBC took this action to ensure that “Morning Joe” would not feature any offensive remarks that may damage the progressive cable news network’s reputation. According to the source, CNN would instead present news reports as they happened. According to CNN’s source, Cesar Conde, who is also head of NBCUniversal News Group, together with MSNBC president Rashida Jones and anchors Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, made the choice.
An official from the NBCUniversal News Group told CNN that “NBC News, NBC News NOW, and MSNBC have stayed in rolling breaking news since Saturday evening” due to the seriousness and complexity of the subject as it is developing. “To keep up with the news as it unfolds, NBC News, NBC News NOW, and ‘MSNBC Reports,’ will cross-simulate with each other throughout the week, ensuring that one news stream is following this unfolding issue.”
Following last year’s tragic surprise attack against Israel by Hamas on October 7, CNN stated that MSNBC had done this before, having removed three Muslim presenters from the air.
Married “Morning Joe” co-hosts Scarborough and Brzezinski have been vocal about their disapproval of Trump. Scarborough used the word “bulls**t” twice in March while promoting a false narrative that claimed Trump’s use of the term “bloodbath” at a rally was a threat of political violence in the event that he lost the election in November.
“Our family is praying for President Trump, those injured yesterday, and the loved ones of the Americans who sadly died,” Scarborough stated on Sunday’s X show, following the assassination attempt against Trump. Their vicious political rhetoric poisons discourse and puts public servants in peril; may God have pity on them.
