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
"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."
CNN:
On Thursday morning, while MSNBC's "Morning Joe" was on the air, Trump posted a pair of hateful tweets about co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski.... Trump's tweets in the 8 a.m. hour on Thursday said that "Morning Joe" is "poorly rated" (it's not) and that the hosts "speak badly of me" (that's true). He called both hosts disparaging names. Trump claimed that Scarborough and Brzezinski courted him for an interview at Mar-a-Lago around the New Year's Eve holiday. "She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!" the president wrote.
He actually said yes, according to accounts of their meeting. Trump, Scarborough and Brzezinski mingled with guests and had a private chat.
For the record, photos from Mar-a-Lago do not show any blood or bandages on Brzezinski's face. Stunned commenters on social media noted that Trump targeted both hosts with his barbed tweets, but only opined on the physical appearance of the woman involved.
So much for the First Lady's campaign against cyber bullying.
UPDATE: Mika responds...
pic.twitter.com/8YhzcCUwM1
— Mika Brzezinski (@morningmika) June 29, 2017
Deputy White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee defends Trump's tweets...
“Look, I don’t think that the president’s ever been someone who gets attacked and doesn’t push back. There have been an outrageous number of personal attacks, not just to him but to frankly everyone around him. People on that show have personally attacked me many times, this is a president who fights fire with fire... and certainly will not be allowed to be bullied by liberal media or liberal elites within the media or Hollywood or anywhere else.”
Trump is the victim here—he's not the bully, he's the bullied. Thanks for clearing that up, Sarah.
For the record, this is a picture of @MorningMika at Mar-a-Lago at the time Trump is claiming she was "bleeding badly." pic.twitter.com/NJgioOD3Va
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 29, 2017
OK, but the problem with Trump's tweet is not that it needed to be fact-checked. https://t.co/7qtLWD3p6Z
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) June 29, 2017
White House official: "At least you're writing [about] this and not that we're going to kill millions of people." https://t.co/YjlZVakVPo
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) June 29, 2017
Please note: Trumpcare, if passed, will kill countless Americans.