{"id":35043,"date":"2017-06-29T12:15:11","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T19:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=35043"},"modified":"2017-06-29T12:57:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T19:57:13","slug":"trump-press-secretarys-response-to-his-gross-tweets-about-mika-makes-things-even-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=35043","title":{"rendered":"Trump Press Secretary&#8217;s Response to His Gross Tweets About Mika Makes Things Even Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s mid-morning on Thursday and by now most of the country has heard about Donald Trump&#8217;s latest expression of his abhorrent character (or lack thereof). For those who haven&#8217;t, he tweeted a grotesque insult aimed at MSNBC&#8217;s Mika Brzezinski. It was fairly typical of his misogynistic tendencies. For some reason, his most vile comments are usually saved for women.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/huckabee-sanders-foxnews.jpg\" alt=\"Huckabee Sanders Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35045\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/1785944344753686\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s tweets, as usual, were as riddled with lies as with loathing. For the record, this what he wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I heard poorly rated <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Morning_Joe?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Morning_Joe<\/a> speaks badly of me (don&#39;t watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came..<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/880408582310776832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year&#39;s Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/880410114456465411?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s set aside the horrific remarks about Mika Brzezinski. They have been appropriately covered and condemned elsewhere. And not just by Democrats and liberals. Below are some of the responses from prominent Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>However, it also needs to be noted that the parts of Trump&#8217;s tweets that weren&#8217;t nauseating and childish were untrue. Morning Joe has been enjoying <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adweek.com\/tvnewser\/q2-2017-ratings-rachel-maddow-has-the-no-1-cable-news-show-among-adults-25-54\/333372\" target=\"_blank\">record ratings<\/a><\/strong> and nine straight quarters of growth. Trump couldn&#8217;t possibly know what Mika&#8217;s IQ is, and given his raging ignorance, he&#8217;s certainly in no position to talk. At the New Year&#8217;s Eve party at Mar-a-Lago he did not say <em>&#8220;no&#8221;<\/em> to Mika and Joe. They were <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maggieNYT\/status\/815934725416173568\" target=\"_blank\">photographed<\/a><\/strong> socializing. And, of course, there was no sign of bleeding or recent surgery. Finally, how does he always know what&#8217;s on Morning Joe if he never watches it?<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s tweets were received with both disgust and disbelief. Except, that is, from within his own camp. Deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders rushed over to Fox News to try to address the erupting crisis. Her efforts were pathetic and even viewed skeptically by host Bill Hemmer. Her position was that Trump is the victim and he was merely defending himself:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;I don\u2019t think that the president\u2019s ever been someone who gets attacked and doesn\u2019t push back. There have been an outrageous number of personal attacks, not just to him, but to frankly everyone around him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;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 a liberal media and the liberal elites within the media or Hollywood or anywhere else.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Deputy WH Press Secretary VIGOROUSLY defends Trump&#39;s ad hominem attacks on Mika Brzezinski, saying he won&#39;t be bullied <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Wcf8913PAQ\">pic.twitter.com\/Wcf8913PAQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JuddLegum\/status\/880443096554778625?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This prompted Hemmer to ask <em>&#8220;Look, I get it. But is that necessary?&#8217;<\/em> Sanders just robotically repeated her prearranged talking points. What she apparently doesn&#8217;t understand is that, even if the program was critical of Trump, there&#8217;s a big difference. They are television pundits. He&#8217;s the President of the United States. And for him to lash out in such an infantile manner is disgraceful and embarrassing to the nation. Whenever he launches these odious tweetstorms he is avoiding his duty as president. The fact that he took the time to compose and post these tweets means that he wasn&#8217;t working on healthcare, North Korea, the economy, or terrorism. Well, that may actually be good news considering the harm he would likely cause.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a collection of responses from Republicans who were rightfully disturbed by Trump&#8217;s hateful messaging:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dear <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>You are a pig. <\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Bill Kristol <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2IG7yXmCs4\">https:\/\/t.co\/2IG7yXmCs4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillKristol\/status\/880427891254841344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mr. President, your tweet was beneath the office and represents what is wrong with American politics, not the greatness of America.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\/status\/880429415406161920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Please just stop. This isn&#39;t normal and it&#39;s beneath the dignity of your office.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ben Sasse (@BenSasse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BenSasse\/status\/880429821775552514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/RepLynnJenkins\/status\/880433829856542721<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/DaniellaMicaela\/status\/880452357653282816<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This has to stop \u2013 we all have a job \u2013 3 branches of gov\u2019t and media.  We don\u2019t have to get along, but we must show respect and civility.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sen. Susan Collins (@SenatorCollins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenatorCollins\/status\/880445276741402624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And for good measure, here is the response from First Lady Melania Trump. Recall that she was going to make a campaign against cyberbullying her White House project.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephGrisham45?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@StephGrisham45<\/a>: &quot;As the First Lady has stated publicly in the past, when her husband gets attacked, he will punch back 10 times harder.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JDiamond1\/status\/880430886537351169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>No one should really be all that surprised by any of this. This is who a minority of the country elected. And he let us all know the rancidness of his character throughout his campaign. He&#8217;s a misogynist, racist, ignorant, bullying, narcissistic, pussy-grabbing, wannabe dictator. He&#8217;s also a corrupt, anti-constitution, Russian collaborating traitor. And for all of these substantive criticisms that warrant his immediate impeachment, he would likely only reply that I&#8217;m a goofy nobody with bad hair.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s mid-morning on Thursday and by now most of the country has heard about Donald Trump&#8217;s latest expression of his abhorrent character (or lack thereof). For those who haven&#8217;t, he tweeted a grotesque insult aimed at MSNBC&#8217;s Mika Brzezinski. It was fairly typical of his misogynistic tendencies. For some reason, his most vile comments are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1200],"tags":[520,554,33,599,1226,1246,1256],"class_list":["post-35043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","tag-bill-hemmer","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-joe-scarborough","tag-mika-brzezinski","tag-morning-joe","tag-sarah-huckabee-sanders"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/huckabee-sanders-foxnews.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-97d","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35063,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=35063","url_meta":{"origin":35043,"position":0},"title":"Tweetstorming: Donald Trump Remains Manically Obsessed With His War on the Media","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/1\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Just two days after repulsing the nation with his misogynistic attack on MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski, Donald Trump is at it again. 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