Tag: Mika Brzezinski

White House vigorously defends Trump’s sexist tweets about Mika Brzezinski

The following article by Ryan Koronowski was posted on the ThinkProgress.org website June 29, 2017:

You’d think that the president ridiculing a female journalist’s looks and calling her crazy would be universally condemned.

On Thursday morning, the president of the United States tweeted this:

 

 

He was referencing Mika Brzezinski, co-host of the MSNBC morning show “Morning Joe,” who is engaged to her co-host, Joe Scarborough. Ten minutes before, White House digital director Dan Scavino Jr. tweeted that Brzezinski (“#DumbAsARockMika”) and Scarborough (“JealousJoe”) were “unhinged” because Trump “stopped returning their calls.” Continue reading “White House vigorously defends Trump’s sexist tweets about Mika Brzezinski”

Beneath the Office

The following was posted on the trumpaccountable.org website June 29, 2017:

In a pair of tweets this morning Donald Trump continued his attacks on the media with an incredibly personal and humiliating attack on Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski that promptly evoked a cascade of criticism. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was particularly pointed in his response calling the comments out as representing “what is wrong with American politics.”

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Graham was quickly joined by Paul Ryan (R-WI), Ben Sasse (R-NE), and other Republican leaders who called the personal attacks inappropriate and indefensible. Continue reading “Beneath the Office”