President Donald Trump lashed out again at MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Twitter Friday morning.
Watched low rated @Morning_Joe for first time in long time. FAKE NEWS. He called me to stop a National Enquirer article. I said no! Bad show
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 30, 2017
Trump’s tweet went out minutes before 9 a.m. ET. The show’s hosts, Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, left the set to go on vacation at 8:30 a.m. ET.
In the Washington Post on Friday, Scarborough and Brzezinski referenced an incident that may have been the subject of Trump’s tweet.
“This year, top White House staff members warned that the National Enquirer was planning to publish a negative article about us unless we begged the president to have the story spiked,” they wrote. “We ignored their desperate pleas.”
On Thursday, Trump drew outrage for a series of tweets insulting the pair, calling Brzezinski “low I.Q. Crazy Mika” and saying “she was bleeding badly from a face-lift” during a visit to his Mar-a-Lago resort around New Year’s Eve.
Scarborough disputed the President’s recent tweet:
Yet another lie. I have texts from your top aides and phone records. Also, those records show I haven't spoken with you in many months. https://t.co/TZWiElo6Gs
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) June 30, 2017
Why do you keep lying about things that are so easily disproven? What is wrong with you? https://t.co/aAoUj5HYZS
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) June 30, 2017
This post has been updated.
