MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski said she will no longer post on X, complaining she has become a “punching bag” on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform and saying she will instead migrate to its more left-friendly rival Bluesky.
Brzezinski, who has come under fire alongside 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 would be her final message on her X account over the weekend.
“I’ve decided to leave X, but I’d love to keep the conversation going,” the 57-year-old Brzezinski wrote on Friday.
Brzezinski said she was “trying to think through it” and that people were “scared, disorientated, fearful of the future, and I think just for a quick moment I might be the punching bag for that.”
“Join me on BlueSky!”
Brzezinski’s first post on Bluesky linked to an interview she granted to “The Daily Beast Podcast” on Friday in which she explained why she and Scarborough trekked down to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump — a move that prompted fierce criticism from within MSNBC and the media world.
“The way I look at it is people are really scared, that’s one of the reasons we went in there,” Brzezinski said.
“People are really scared about Trump’s comments about political adversaries. A lot of people are scared because of what has happened with abortion.”
The MSNBC morning co-host said she would “like to believe we are going to get through this and I have a lot of questions, too, though, and I want the chance to ask them.”
When asked if the meeting made her more hopeful, Brzezinski said: “No, I would have no illusions about that. I am glad it happened. The fact that it happened is good.”
“I am deeply, deeply, upset and fearful for the woman of this country, and not just the women of child-bearing age,” she said, adding: “I’m going to be looking for ways to work on this issue.”
Since Trump trounced 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 been signing up as many as 1 million new users per day over 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 who have signed up in recent weeks.
Data from Similarweb also found that more than 280,000 people closed their accounts on X.
The Post has sought comment from MSNBC, X and the Trump transition team.