MSNBC's Joe Scarborough seemed gobsmacked when he learned the list of big-name tech CEOs attending church with the first family Monday morning.
On Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski set the stage saying, "This is quite a day in history. Amid a flurry of last minute pardons put out by President Biden, we are getting ready for President-elect Donald Trump to take over again in his second term as president."
"So, John Lemire, why don't you get us up to date with the church service?" Joe Scarborough added. "Also, the pardons, who we've heard from those pardons, and also the news, there has been some contradiction earlier about whether you had to accept the pardons or not. Get us up to date on all of that."
"First, we're looking at Saint John's Church there, at 'The Church of the Presidents,' as it's known, just north of Lafayette Park, just a block or so north of the White House. President-elect Trump, Melania Trump, his family, close advisers, have all entered in the last 15 or 20 minutes."
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"Who else is in there? Do you know?" Scarborough asked.
"We also have, in addition to, we saw J.D. Vance walk in, we also have other new Trump supporters have joined. In fact, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, some of these tech giants who have been spotted at a number of events —"
"They're in the church?" Brzezinski asked, incredulous.
"They're actually in the pews?" Scarborough added.
Lemire continued, "They are now in the church, spotted by — "
"I didn't know they were religious!" a voice said off camera.
Scarborough quipped, "I didn't either! Have they found Jesus, Lemire?"
"They found something in the last few weeks, to be sure," Lemire said. "Spotted by the press pool that's inside all of those tech leaders inside that church and are expected to participate in the inaugural events later today."
Zuckerberg, Cook, and Bezos have all been roundly criticized for "bending the knee" to Trump by traveling to Mar-a-Lago after the election where they are believed to have curried the incoming president's favor in the interest of their trillion-dollar businesses.
