Trump Finally Admits To Watching ‘Morning Joe,’ Only To Insult It Again

President Donald Trump, accompanied by Romanian President Klaus Werner Iohannis, speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House, Friday, June 9, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
President Donald Trump, accompanied by Romanian President Klaus Werner Iohannis, speaks during a news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House, Friday, June 9, 2017, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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President Donald Trump lashed out again at MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Twitter Friday morning.

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:

This post has been updated.

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  1. Trump just admitted to attempted blackmail.

    The White House apparently called Joe three times with an offer to spike the National Enquirer story if Joe would call the President to apologize for the Morning Joe coverage. Joe refused.

    So why didn’t Joe and Mika report on this attempted blackmail scheme when it was happening?

    What else is going unreported?

  2. Avatar for theod theod says:

    Yikes! Remember the good old days when LBJ rued that when he lost Walter Cronkite because of Vietnam he had lost the country? That’s when America was great.

    Our GOP politics are now so debased that when Trump loses JoeMika, he’s clearly lost his mind. Now it’s an America that grates.

  3. “What is wrong with you?” All sorts of things that we didn’t understand why you weren’t pointing them out for the better part of a year Joe. Don’t pretend you are not complicit in this.

  4. Amazing stuff… definitely bright shiny objects meant to distract.
    One question: is it possible to have records that “prove” you haven’t spoken to someone? Quit while you’re ahead, Joe.

  5. Josh has been doing some great writing about Trump and his targeting of the press. Really adds perspective to what we see happening in real time. I agree w many commenters about how Joe and Mika carried Tsar Trump during the election. With that, it is kind of amazing to see Joe hit back. Slightly OT, I’m about as boring a 50 year old can be, but Buzzfeed has really been putting out some solid articles. Have to link this one, it’s solid. By the way I took the last quiz on Buzzfeed, and my pizza choices are similar to Beyonce’s…who knew?

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