President Donald Trump on Thursday slammed MSNBC “Morning Joe”host Mika Brzezinski, after consistently harsh ridicule from her and her fiancee Joe Scarborough.
Trump ridiculed the brains, looks and temperament of Brzezinski, whose show he claims to have stopped watching.
And while critics from the left are scolding Trump for criticizing the female host, they ignoring the very important fact that his comments were in response to her criticizing the exact same, juvenile things about him!
On “Morning Joe” Thursday, Brzezinski kicked it off, saying “Nothing makes a man feel better than making a fake cover of a magazine about himself, lying everyday and destroying the country.”
When an image of Trump on the cover of Time magazine was shown and his arms were naturally crossed, she commented that he wasn’t showing his hands because they’re “teensy.”
That’s some hard hitting journalism Mika.
Trump didn’t allow this criticism to go unanswered.
In a series of morning tweets, the president went after Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, who have criticized Trump on their MSNBC show “Morning Joe.”
I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017
…to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017
Deputy White House press secretary Sarah Sanders defended the president, suggesting the tweets were just his way of countering an attack.
“I don’t think that the president’s ever been someone who gets attacked and doesn’t push back,” she said on Fox News. “There have been an outrageous number of personal attacks — not just to him but to frankly everyone around him. This is a president who fights fire with fire and certainly will not be allowed to be bullied by liberal media and the liberal elites within the media or Hollywood or anywhere else.”
Brzezinski responded on Twitter by posting a photograph of a Cheerios box that includes the phrase “made for little hands.” Critics looking to get under the president’s skin have long suggested that his hands appear smaller than usual for his frame.
First Lady Melania Trump, who has said she wants to run an effort to combat cyber-bullying, also defended her husband’s conduct.
“As the first lady has stated publicly in the past, when her husband gets attacked, he will punch back 10 times harder,” said her spokeswoman, Stephanie Grisham.
Trump’s relationship with the “Morning Joe” hosts has taken several twists and turns.
Scarborough was largely supportive of Trump during the campaign, and he and his co-host did, in fact, spend time at the president’s Florida resort, a visit that Scarborough said was to arrange a Trump interview. But the duo, who are engaged to be married, have since turned critical of Trump.
About 15 minutes before the president himself tweeted, White House social media director Dan Scavino similarly assailed the hosts.
“#DumbAsARockMika and lover #JealousJoe are lost, confused & saddened since @POTUS @realDonaldTrump stopped returning their calls! Unhinged,” Scavino wrote on his personal account.
-The Associated Press contributed to this article.