It’s been a stressful week for Donald Trump. Diplomacy with China is going nowhere fast. His party’s Obamacare replacement is floundering in the Senate. The constant irritation of a hostile press is rankling more than ever.
So it’s not surprising the president took some time Thursday morning to unwind the best way he knows how: by taking gratuitous Twitter potshots against people he dislikes. In the crosshairs this morning: Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, the co-hosts of MSNBC’s 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
The tweets come as a gloomy reminder that no mortal is safe from the wrath of Trump’s Twitter thumbs. A week after his inauguration, the president reportedly offered to officiate Brzezinski and Scarborough’s wedding. (“Do you, Psycho Joe, take you, low I.Q. Crazy Mika…”)
MSBNC issued a response to the tweets: “It’s a sad day for America when the president spends his time bullying, lying and spewing petty personal attacks instead of doing his job,” spokeswoman Lori Acio said in statement.
Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Sanders refused to walk the comments back, instead saying that “the president has [never] been someone who gets attacked and doesn’t push back. … This is a president who fights fire with fire, and certainly will not be bullied by liberal elites.”
Neither Sanders nor Trump clarified what Morning Joe “bullying” had provoked the tweets.
