Just as hostility between White House reporters and President Trump seemed to be peaking and couldn’t get any worse, one tweet from Trump about MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski’s alleged bloody face-lift made it worse.
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The slight against Brzezinski’s appearance set Washington ablaze, as congressional Republicans eagerly denounced the remark, and experts searched for new ways to describe the deteriorating relationship between the White House and the press.
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All throughout the week, the president tweeted insult after insult directed at the media, save the soft spot he has for Fox News.
On Wednesday, Trump targeted both the Washington Post, which he called the “guardian of Amazon,” and the New York Times, which he said writes “false story after false story about me.”
The previous day, he did it again, with a few more outlets dropped in. “So they caught Fake News CNN cold, but what about NBC, CBS & ABC?” he tweeted. “What about the failing New York Times & Washington Post? They are all Fake News!”
Even after drawing swift rebukes from Republicans, the White House stood its ground on the face-lift dig at Brzezinski. During an interview on Fox News on Thursday morning, Sanders defended the tweet.
“I don’t think that the president has ever been someone who gets attacked and doesn’t push back,” she said.
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White House, press relations collapse after Trump's face-lift tweet https://t.co/4GLlShmbkR pic.twitter.com/DbSkRRglaM
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) June 29, 2017
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