‘Donald Trump is not well’: Brzezinski, Scarborough pen response to Trump tweets

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  Julia Munslow 35 minutes ago
MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, President Trump.
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, President Trump. (Photos: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters; Carlos Barria/Reuters)
“Morning Joe” co-hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough on Friday fired back at a Twitter attack from President Trump, saying he is “not mentally equipped” to continue watching their show.The pair penned a scathing column published in the Washington Post to respond to Trump’s Thursday tweets, in which he referred to Brzezinski as “low I.Q. crazy” and Scarborough as “psycho.”
They also appeared on their MSNBC show Friday morning, saying they delayed vacation plans to be there.
“It’s been fascinating and frightening and really sad for our country,” Brzezinski said when asked by fellow host Willie Geist for her reaction to the tweets.
“I’m fine. My family brought me up really tough, this is nothing,” she said. “But I’m concerned again about what this reveals about the president of the United States.”
Echoing their column, Scarborough said simply, “We’re OK. The country’s not.”
In that piece for the Washington Post the hosts, who recently announced their engagement, hit back at Trump for his unusually harsh comments about them and their show, writing about his obsession with “Morning Joe,” refuting every part of the claims in his tweets and railing against his “continued mistreatment of women.”
The president’s tweets targeted Brzezinski in particular. He attacked her physical appearance, as he has done repeatedly in responding critically to women, writing that “she was bleeding badly from a face-lift” during a visit to his Florida property Mar-a-Lago.

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