The White House is standing behind President Trump’s insult to MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski Thursday as an example of his willingness to hit back at critics.
Trump said Brzezinski was “bleeding badly from a facelift” in a tweet Thursday morning after ripping her show, Morning Joe, and her co-host and fiance, Joe Scarborough. His remarks were widely condemned on both sides of the aisle as unbecoming of his office, but there is no sign the White House is backing down from the controversy.
“I don’t think that the president has ever been someone who gets attacked and doesn’t push back,” deputy press secretary Sarah Sanders said on Fox News Thursday.
She added, “There have been an outrageous number of personal attacks, not just to him but everyone around him. … This is a president who fights fire with fire, and certainly will not be bullied by liberal elites.”
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“I’ve seen far worse things come out of that show, directed not just at the president but at everyone around him,” she said.
“The president isn’t going to be someone who’s bullied and allows people around him and himself to be personally attacked.”
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JUST IN: White House refuses to back away from Trump's Mika Brzezinski "face lift" insult https://t.co/FiaSJbwVYa pic.twitter.com/2VeB6VejXd
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) June 29, 2017
Trump’s team is just as nutzo as he is.
Then no more it's not nice for SNL to fat shame Sarah. Neither side can have it both ways. https://t.co/0jlrY9juiJ
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) June 29, 2017
Personal assistant to the President of the United States. pic.twitter.com/6MaqYWnYW9
— The Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) June 29, 2017
I really don't understand why some of you prefer this crap to beating these people in the arena of ideas. And I hope never will. https://t.co/8vSTqNhpJX
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) June 29, 2017
Why do you want to become and behave like an industry most of America has given up on? Wouldn't you want to be better?
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) June 29, 2017
You can't on one hand note media is less popular than Trump, but then applaud/urge Trump to become more like them. Just dumb.
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) June 29, 2017
You're basically saying — let's go and be like the people most people don't want to be like. Alrighty then. But a cult's gonna cult.
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) June 29, 2017
Just don't act amazed the president's approval rating is in the toilet when you encourage and/or enable this stuff.
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) June 29, 2017
Republicans condemn Trump for crude tweets about ‘Morning Joe’ host https://t.co/0Fo2Th6gVD pic.twitter.com/BM7Ns4Z6p9
— POLITICO (@politico) June 29, 2017
White House defends Trump’s tweets: He’s been ‘attacked mercilessly’ https://t.co/nZUFNq82xM pic.twitter.com/JJI7zTR8Lg
— POLITICO (@politico) June 29, 2017
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