MSNBC's Joe Scarborough reacted to criticisms of his and co-host Mika Brzezinski's meeting with President-elect Trump on Tuesday and said there was a "massive disconnect" between social media and reality.

Brzezinski positioned the meeting as “restarting communications” and invoked her late father, Zbigniew Brzezinski, to insist that diplomacy was important. The elder Brzezinski was National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter in the 1970s, of course, and not ostensibly a reporter covering an incoming president.