As President Joe Biden gears up for a re-election rematch in opposition to former president Donald Trump, he’ll be highlighting important variations between himself and the person he defeated and evicted from the White Home 4 years in the past.
However there’s one factor Mr Biden and Mr Trump positively have in widespread: a tv weight loss plan that features long-running MSNBC programme Morning Joe.
In keeping with Axios, Mr Biden’s high aides typically seem in the course of the four-hour present’s second hour, between 7.00 am and seven.40 am, in hopes of catching the president’s eye.
Mr Biden additionally reportedly steadily calls on the present’s namesake host, former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough, to make use of him as a sounding board and complain about media protection of his administration.
Scarborough and his co-host (and spouse since 2018), veteran broadcast journalist Mika Brzezinski, are additionally favourites of Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, who hosted them on the VP’s official residence for dinner final month.
Brzezinski, who’s the daughter of the late Carter administration nationwide safety adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, was additionally noticed on the White Home by The Impartial final month when she visited to tape an interview with First Woman Jill Biden.
But it’s not simply the co-hosts of the favored cable morning present who take pleasure in frequent entry to the president and people round him. Mr Biden additionally steadily calls on recurring company on the present for counsel and recommendation.
One such visitor, historian Jon Meacham, had to surrender a contract as a paid MSNBC contributor in late 2020 after it turned identified that he was consulting with Mr Biden to assist craft the victory speech the then-president-elect delivered after he defeated Mr Trump in that 12 months’s presidential election.
The crossover between the MSNBC programme and the Biden White Home is a mirror picture of how Mr Trump’s White Home employees — and others seeking to put messages in his ear — used competing programme Fox and Pals for a similar objective, figuring out that Mr Trump, a rapacious tv viewer, had the Fox Information day-opener on within the White Home residence every morning.
Mr Trump additionally had a behavior of calling on Fox company and hosts to ask for his or her takes on the problems of the day.
However regardless of his love for Fox and Pals, which included frequent visitor appearances through telephone interviews and even a madcap interview at Fox’s digital camera place on the White Home’s north garden (adopted by an much more chaotic gaggle with the White Home press corps), Mr Trump was additionally a frequent shopper of the MSNBC programme favoured by Mr Biden.
In the course of the run-up to the 2016 election, he was a more-than-occasional visitor on the present till Scarborough and Brzezinski turned extra crucial of the then-reality tv host turned politician.
He steadily rage-tweeted in regards to the programme, calling Scarborough “psycho” in posts to his then-active Twitter account, and on a couple of event accused the ex-Florida congressman of getting murdered a staffer, Lori Klausutis, who was discovered useless in his Florida district workplace in 2001.
In keeping with police paperwork, an post-mortem discovered the 28-year-old died from the consequences of a previously-unknown coronary heart situation. On the time, Scarborough was in Washington, a whole bunch of miles away.
Klausutis’ widower, Timothy Klausutis, later accused the then-president of getting “has taken one thing that doesn’t belong to him – the reminiscence of my useless spouse – and perverted it for perceived political acquire” in an open letter to then-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey.
Mr Trump additionally took intention Brzezinski after she criticised him by attacking her in graphic phrases in a June 2017 tweet calling her “low I.Q. Loopy Mika” and claiming that she had been “bleeding badly from a face-lift” throughout a social occasion at his Mar-a-Lago membership.
Brzezinski later recalled throughout an look on The Each day Beast’s The New Irregular podcast that she’d gone to Mr Trump’s Florida house at his request following a “chin-tuck” process, and located herself discussing it with Mr Trump’s spouse, Melania Trump.
“I’m speaking to Melania about it, lady to lady, then Donald got here up and mentioned, ‘You understand, Melania has had no work executed. She’s excellent.‘’ I’m like, ‘That’s nice,” she mentioned.