Very model of ‘modern ppresidential’
President Trump said Saturday night — in a tweet, of course — that he has no intention of cutting back on his “MODERN” Twitter habit.
“My use of social media is not Presidential,” he began a 7 p.m. tweet, mimicking his detractors.
“It’s MODERN DAY PRESIDENTIAL,” he stressed, adding, “Make America Great Again!”
It was just latest in a series of tweets Saturday blowing off bipartisan criticism of his escalating online war with cable news.
“Crazy Joe Scarborough and dumb as a rock Mika are not bad people,” he wrote of the co-hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” who had been trading brutal fire with Trump since Thursday.
“But their low rated show is dominated by their NBC bosses. Too bad!” he said.
Trump reacted to Mika Brzezinski’s repeated on-air criticism of him with a graphic Thursday tweet, claiming she had appeared at a New Year’s celebration at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida still bleeding from a face-lift. Brzezinski denied Trump’s account.
The president paired the message about Scarborough and Brzezinski with one that targeted the left-leaning cable outlet’s corporate brass.
“Word is that @Greta Van Susteren was let go by her out of control bosses at @NBC & @Comcast because she refused to go along w/ ‘Trump hate!’ ” he wrote.
The former Fox News host was canned by MSNBC on Thursday, just six months after launching a new nightly show, due to low ratings — and, CNNMoney reported, because she was not “confrontational enough” on-air.
In a third tweet, Trump trained his fire on CNN.
“I am extremely pleased to see that @CNN has finally been exposed as #FakeNews and garbage journalism,” he wrote. “It’s aboutbt titime!”!”
The embattled network last week retracted a story about the Russian election-hacking scandal, and three staffers had to hand in their resignations.
Several Republicans who scolded Trump for insulting Brzezinski, including House Speaker Paul Ryan, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Sen. Susan Collins of Maine were mum about his Saturday shots.
But the president’s core supporters remain on board.
“The Trump constituency has deep distrust for the media as well as all political institutions,” Trump confidant Roger Stone told The Washington Post — and the “lopsided coverage” of the administration is only solidifying their resolve.