Trump Mocks Mika Brzezinski; Says She Was ‘Bleeding Badly From a Face-Lift’<br />Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe” and describing a meeting with Ms. Brzezinski in which, he said, “she was bleeding badly from a face-lift.”<br />I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don’t watch anymore).<br />By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUMJUNE 29, 2017<br />President Trump faced a swift and bipartisan backlash on Thursday after he assailed the television host Mika Brzezinski in unusually personal<br />and crude terms, the latest of a string of escalating attacks by the president on the national news media.<br />President, your tweet was beneath the office and represents what is wrong with American politics, not the greatness of America.”<br />The president has fumed for weeks about his coverage on “Morning Joe,” where Mr. Scarborough<br />and Ms. Brzezinski have been increasingly blistering in their commentary about the Trump administration.<br />Mr. Trump is famed for his online provocations, but the coarseness of his remark about Ms. Brzezinski — coming from a president who has faced criticism<br />for his attitudes toward women — drew immediate denunciations in the political world, including from prominent members of his own party.<br />Mr. Scarborough and Ms. Brzezinski visited Mr. Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, this past New Year’s.<br />In a statement, MSNBC said, “It’s a sad day for America when the president spends his time bullying, lying<br />and spewing petty personal attacks instead of doing his job.”<br />Mr. Trump’s deputy press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, defended Mr. Trump’s tweets in an interview on Fox News.
