The defeated MSNBC anchors -- who have slammed Trump in the past as a “fascist" and compared him to Adolf Hitler -- had a face-to-face with the winning Republican at his Mar-a-Lago estate Friday to “restart communications” after conceding that Americans had overwhelmingly made their choice by re-electing him.

The announcement received intense backlash, which Scarborough and Brzezinksi, who are married, addressed on their MSNBC show Tuesday. “Yesterday I saw for the first time what a massive disconnect there was between social media and the real world,” the ...