Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski flirts with Trump in resurfaced video as their Mar-a-Lago reunion sparks media meltdown

A resurfaced video has shown Morning Joe star Mika Brzezinski flirting with president-elect Donald Trump and lovingly touching his hair before their relationship turned sour.

Brzezinski and her husband and co-host Joe Scarborough may currently be some of Trump's biggest critics, but the pair were big supporters of the Republican before he found success in politics.

Trump had a long and friendly relationship with the MSNBC pundits, as seen on a clip from one of his appearances from long before he ran for president, on March 12 2010.

Social media users have been sharing the clip as they relentlessly mock the Morning Joe hosts for their ever-changing stance on Trump after they revealed they visited the president-elect last week. 

Brzezinski and Trump are seen embracing as he enters the Morning Joe set, with Brzezinski lifting her leg romantically as she leans in for the hug.

'Watch your head. You're very tall!' she warned Trump before leading him to his seat as she called him 'sir.'

Scarborough then asked Trump: 'Is Mika Brzezinski not as beautiful today as the first time you called into our show in 2007 and embarrassed her?' 

'I didn't embarrass her,' Trump replied 'I thought she was very beautiful and I watched the show because of her beauty, not because of any politics or anything... Yes, she's gotten more beautiful.'

Scarborough then instructed Brzezinski to stand up and go check Trump's hair.

Brzezinski obliged and proceeded to lovingly fix Trump's hair.

'Does it feel good? Trump asked

'Yeah,' she replied. 'its all there.'

The pair has received backlash from both conservative and liberal media figures after they revealed that they traveled to Mar-a-Lago to 'restart communications' with Trump.

Trump and the 'Morning Joe' stars have had a contentious relationship since the Republican entered politics - with Scarborough leaving the Republican party as a result. 

During the 2024 election, Morning Joe repeatedly denounced Trump as a racist, sexist, fascist, and told viewers he did not deserve to be president. At one point, Scarborough said Trump was acting 'full-on Hitler' and Brzezinski condemned him for echoing the 'dangerous language of infamous fascist leaders.' 

Trump used to be routine contributor to Morning Joe, and Scarborough was an early cheerleader for the billionaire's maverick bid for the GOP nomination in 2016, with CNN reporting that year that Scarborough's cozy 'friendship' with Trump was an 'increasing source of discomfort at NBC.'

In February, 2016, a leaked audio from an off-camera moment during a town hall shows just how cozy the trio were, with Trump telling the pundits that he likes their portrayal of him as 'almost like a legendary figure.'

At another point Trump told the MSNBC hosts to 'just make us all look good' and asked Brzezinski that 'nothing too hard' be asked.

Okay,' she replied, as reported by The Washington Post.  

But relations soured as Trump pulled off a surprise victory in the Republican primaries and began to look like a serious challenger to the Democrats' Hillary Clinton.

The four-hour morning show became a bastion of the Democratic establishment after Trump's first term, with President Joe Biden routinely tuning in while doing his morning exercises to see his acolytes promote the party's talking points.

With Trump in the White House and Scarborough engaged to co-host Brzezinski he began cementing his show's identity as an outpost of opposition to the new administration.

The couple, who married in 2018, even recorded a Christmas album called 'A Very Drumpf Christmas' with children's songs portraying the president as Dr. Seuss' The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.

It eventually attracted the attention of the president himself, who delivered a series of withering put-downs, labeling Scarborough 'Psycho Joe' and his then-fiancée as 'low IQ Crazy Mika', while mischievously claiming she had been 'bleeding badly from a face-lift' during a visit to his Mar-a-Lago estate.

Brzezinski later confirmed she'd been recovering from cosmetic surgery during the trip.

And the feud deepened when the president revived long-debunked claims that Scarborough had been involved in the death of his former congressional staffer who was found dead on his office floor in 2001.

An autopsy found that Lori Bolterstein Klausutis, 28, had hit her head on a desk after collapsing from an undiagnosed heart-valve irregularity but Trump called for a fresh investigation into the case.

The allegations earned Trump his first rebuke from Twitter, which would eventually kick him off the platform altogether in January 2021.