Megyn Kelly mocks ‘Morning Joe’ hosts for getting ‘down on their Snake Belies’ with Trump meeting

Megyn Kelly blasted “Morning Joe” hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough’s meeting with Donald Trump, calling it a “boot-licking” attempt to fix their ratings.

On Thursday’s episode of “The Megyn Kelly Show,” the host mocked the MSNBC couple for their admission that they met with President-elect Trump last week to “restart communication” between the office and the show.

“They didn’t just bend the knee, they came down on their snake bellies and they slid and they licked the boot,” Kelly said, “”Yeah, it tastes so good. I love the bottom of your boots, sir, give me more!’ That’s really what happened. Then they come back on the air on Monday and say, ‘We spoke truth to power. Why wouldn’t we talk to Hitler, the rapist, racist, bigoted, sexist, misogynistic Hitler, that’s just what we do as journalists.’ And then they are already circling the bowl audience in even greater numbers.”

Kelly went on to joke about “Morning Joe’s” plummeting ratings — both before Monday and after the revelation. It was clear MSNBC viewers didn’t like what they were hearing from Mika and Joe, as the show’s ratings dropped 17% in the hour following the reveal.

Brzezinski admitted on The Daily Beast podcast Wednesday that she was “surprised by the backlash” following her and Scarborough’s revelation on Monday.

“The way I look at it, people are really scared,” Brzezinski explained. “And that’s one of the reasons we went in there is that people are really afraid of Donald Trump’s comments that, you know, political opponents, a lot of people are afraid because of what’s happened with abortion. It are all issues that are important to me and in some ways personal to me, but certainly personal to the people I really care about.”

She added that it was part of her job to pursue that and future meetings with the president-elect, and that she couldn’t hold a grudge against past things Trump said about her — like when he said she was “bleeding profusely from a facelift” in 2017.

Her hope is to eventually have Trump on “Morning Joe” for an interview.

“I really hope we have more conversations,” she said. “I hope we do an interview.”

Watch the full Megyn Kelly clip above.

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