White House, press relations collapse after Trump’s Mika Brzezinski face-lift tweet

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Just as hostility between White House reporters and President Trump seemed to be peaking and couldn’t get any worse, one tweet from Trump about MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski’s alleged bloody face-lift made it worse.

“I heard poorly rated ‘Morning Joe’ speaks badly of me (don’t watch anymore),” Trump wrote in a pair of tweets after the MSNBC show’s co-hosts spent the better part of three hours criticizing the White House. “Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came… 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!”

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