Trump in brutal ‘facelift’ attack on female television show host
washington — Donald Trump unleashed a brutal personal attack on Thursday on respected female television host Mika Brzezinski in the latest, stunning salvo in the president’s ongoing war with the media.
Trump’s Twitter outburst — in which he describes the journalist “bleeding badly from a facelift” — appears to have been trigged by Brzezinski’s sharp comments during the morning show she cohosts with Joe Scarborough on the left-leaning MSNBC network.
“I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don’t watch anymore),” wrote Trump, an avid cable news watcher.
“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!” Trump tweeted.
In recent days Trump has escalated his attacks on US media outlets — which he accuses of peddling “fake news” about him — singling out CNN over the retraction of a story about his administration’s supposed links with Russia, but also assailing rival cable networks, the New York Times and the Washington Post. But his latest assault triggered a torrent of
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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criticism, including from Republican Senator Lindsey Graham who called him out directly, tweeting: “Mr. President, your tweet was beneath the office and represents what is wrong with American politics, not the greatness of America.” Brzezinski herself appeared uncowed by Trump’s onslaught. She responded with a post of her own, a photo of a young child reaching for Cheerios cereal.
“Made for little hands,” the picture caption read — a schoolyard taunt that has been levelled against the image-conscious Trump since the days of his candidacy.
In the Thursday show, Brzezinski had suggested the president was psychologically unhinged.
“Everybody in Washington, in the administration, needs to look at this from... a point of view where they’re not lobotomised because you’re sitting in there and you’re so scared of him, and you think you need to suck up to the president.”
Brzezinski, 50, is the daughter of the late Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was president Jimmy Carter’s national security advisor.
Scarborough, 54, is a Republican former congressman who represented a Florida district in the 1990s. —