Nikki Haley slams ‘Morning Joe’ hosts during Donald Trump meeting: ‘They needed Trump for their survival’

Nikki Haley has slammed left-leaning MSNBC “Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for meeting with President-elect Donald Trump despite years of criticizing him — suggesting they did it just to boost ratings.

Haley, a former Republican presidential candidate, tore into Scarborough and Brzezinski after they revealed on air Monday that they had a one-on-one meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago in an effort to “restart communications.”

“Let’s be clear, Joe and Mika didn’t suddenly see the light, they saw their ratings,” the former US ambassador to the United Nations wrote on X on Monday.

“They realized they needed Trump for their survival.”

She later doubled down, saying on her SiriusXM show: “I mean, let’s be clear. They saw the ratings stocks and realized, ‘Oh, we better deal with Donald Trump or we’re not going to have a show.’

Haley also lashed out at the hosts of “Morning Joe” for repeatedly ripping her on their show whenever she spoke about Trump.

“Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough ripped into me when I said anything about voting for Donald Trump or what I agreed with, even though I criticized him when I thought he was wrong,” she said.

“I praised him when I thought he was good. They ripped me off,” Haley said of the couple before their surprise about-face.

Haley was among many critics lambasted by the embattled MSNBC hosts for their flip-fabandoning hypocrisy, as they have repeatedly criticized Trump in the past as a “fascist” and compared him to Adolf Hitler.

Others criticized Scarborough and Brzezinski for their “impudence” and accused them of “bent the knee” by arranging their first sit-down with Trump in seven years.

The pair opened Monday’s show with the shocking revelation that they arranged the “personal” meeting with Trump after admitting voters had overwhelmingly made their choice.

“Five years of political warfare has deeply divided Washington and the country. We have been as clear as we know how in expressing our deep concerns about President Trump’s actions and words in intensifying the public debate,” Brzezinski told viewers.

“But for nearly 80 million Americans, the denial of the election, the public trials, January 6 were not as important as the issues that led them to return Donald Trump to the White House with their vote.

“Joe and I understand that it’s time to do something different, and that starts not only with talking about Donald Trump, but with him,” she added.