MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski said she will no longer post on X, complaining that it has become a “fist thango” on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform and saying she will instead to migrate to its more left-friendly rival. Bluesky.
Brzezinski, who has come under fire along with her husband and co-host Joe Scarborough for meeting President-elect Donald Trump after previously calling him a “fascist” and a threat to the republic, posted what she said she would was her last message on her X. account during the weekend.
“I’ve decided to leave X, but I’d like to continue the conversation,” Brzezinski, 57, wrote on Friday.
Brzezinski said she was “trying to think it through” and that people were “scared, disoriented, scared of the future, and I think just for a quick moment I can be the punching bag for that.”
“Join me on BlueSky!”
Brzezinski’s first post on Bluesky was related to an interview she gave to The Daily Beast Podcast on Friday, in which she explained why she and Scarborough drove all the way to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump — a move that prompted harsh criticism from within MSNBC and MSNBC and the media world.
“The way I look at it is people are really scared, that’s one of the reasons we went there,” Brzezinski said.
“People are really scared by Trump’s comments about political opponents. A lot of people are scared because of what’s happened with abortion.”
The MSNBC morning co-host said she “would like to believe we’re going to get through this, and I have a lot of questions, though, and I want the opportunity to ask them.”
When asked if the meeting made him more hopeful, Brzezinski said: “No, I would have no illusions about that. I’m glad it happened. The fact that it happened is good.”
“I am deeply, deeply, upset and scared for the woman of this country, and not just for women of childbearing age,” she said, adding: “I will look for ways to work on this issue. “
Since Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in the Nov. 5 presidential election, grieving Democrats have abandoned X — the company formerly known as Twitter — and flocked to Bluesky in droves.
Last month, Bluesky’s user base numbered 13 million. But since the election, the site, which was created in 2019 by then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, has more than 21 million registered accounts.
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber told CNN last week that the site had registered up to 1 million new users a day during the previous seven-day period.
Rose Wang, Bluesky’s chief operating officer, told Business Insider that the startup has had to add more servers to accommodate the growing number of users that have signed up in recent weeks.
Data from Similarweb also revealed that more than 280,000 people closed their X accounts.
The Post has sought comment from MSNBC, X and the Trump transition team.
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