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…
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.
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.
