Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough are taking flak for their surprise visit to meet President-elect Trump at Mar-a-Lago from both the left and right. Jon Stewart, for example, played a clip of Brzezinski asking viewers,

The hosts of Morning Joe have fired back at critics of their meeting with president-elect Donald Trump, saying that the backlash is proof of a “massive disconnect between social media and the real world.

Stewart used the Morning Joe segment to segue into his larger point of the monologue: that Democrats have “learned nothing” from the past eight years dealing with Trump’s Republican party. “Republicans are playing chess and the Democrats are in the nurse’s office because they glued their balls to their thighs,” Stewart said.