Donald Trump lit into Mika Brzezinski yesterday:
I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017
and then added
Of course, this was preceded by the usual Trump-trashing segment:
About 40 minutes prior, Thursday’s “Morning Joe” panel had a giggle session about Trump’s ties to Wall Street, his fake Time magazine cover, and even his tiny hands.
“Why don’t you get another Time magazine cover?” Brzezinski said. “Nothing makes a man feel better than making a fake cover of a magazine of himself, lying every day, and destroying the country.”
Joe Scarborough mocked Trump’s fake cover by joking that he once won a a Masters Tournament and opened a concert for U2.
“He’s covering his hands here because they’re teensy!” Brzezinski jested about Trump’s pose on the cover.
Attacking Trump is nothing new for this pair:
Almost as soon as Donald Trump was inaugurated president, the hosts on MSNBC’s Morning Joe began pushing a narrative that the president could very well be criminally insane.
The president, whom these hosts regularly remind viewers is tasked with overseeing America’s nuclear arsenal, is mentally “unbalanced,” “unhinged,” and obviously suffers from “mental illness.”
“He keeps getting worse,” Dr. Joe Scarborough said. “Mentally, he keeps getting worse. This is a man in decline.”
“There’s an unwritten rule in the psychiatric community that nobody diagnoses people from afar,” Dr. Donny Deutsch reminded viewers. “But I just don’t feel like he’s a well guy, period.”
“He has literally devolved, to the point where there is concern about his health,” Dr. Mika Brzezinski said. “Or about his ability to take in information and use it correctly. It’s like a child.”
Brzezinski has said she is so concerned about Trump’s mental health that we should pursue “Article 25” — apparently referring to the Constitution’s 25th Amendment, which allows for the removal of a president who is physically unfit to serve.
“This looks like the steps leading to a total meltdown,” Brzezinski. “This is really bad. Just for the record, we’re all really nervous. So if people out there feel nervous, we do, too.”
“He’s not well, he’s not of sound mind,” Donny Deutsch said. “That’s somebody you look at clinically and say, he’s not well … I’m not a physician, but that it’s — he’s mentally ill.”
Back in May, Scarborough called Trump “thuggish” and added “The fish rots, again, from the head.”
Scarborough hammered Trump in April:
On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer blamed the attack on former President Barack Obama, saying the strike was “a consequence of the past administration’s weakness and irresolution.” Scarborough took issue with that immediately. “[Trump’s] carping at the past president’s failures is unbecoming,” said Scarborough. “You’re criticizing Barack Obama for what he did not do in 2012? What are you doing to do five years later? Now you’re the president of the United States.”
In June:
“Morning Joe” panelists speculated again Tuesday about the state of President Trump’s mental health, saying he was “not well,” had a self-destructive “personality disorder” and that his behavior during the Republican primary was “evil.”
As the gang at Morning Joe broke for commercial at the end of their second hour, co-host Mika Brzezinski offered up a fun quiz for for her panelists and the viewing public.
“As we go to break, a pop quiz for you. Get ready. Get your pencils out,” she said:
The capital city of your closest ally is attacked. Do you do this:
A. Retweet Drudge before being briefed?
B. Use the attack to lobby the Supreme Court to overturn lower court rulings that said your travel ban is unconstitutional.
C. Openly attack the mayor of the city under assault and quote him out of context.
D. Go Golfing for the 22nd time in your 19-week tenure.
E. All of the above
In the immediate aftermath of the most recent terrorism in London, Trump took heat from many corners of the media for his decision to retweet, the reclusive conservative guru. NBC took particular exception at the time.
The whole routine prompted chuckles from the MJ panel.
“This is like the Jeff Foxworthy bit,’ You might be the president’” offered Commentary’s Noah Rothman.
“Is there an F?” asked the New York Times’ Nicholas Confessore.
Without the overbearing Scarborough there to dominate discourse, Brzezinski spoke more than usual, offering scathing opinions about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Her starting point was the “intervention” proposed by Newt Gingrich and Rudy Giuliani, high-profile Republican leaders who, it is reported, hope to approach Trump through his children to make suggestions about saving his stumbling and scattered campaign against the Democrat, Hillary Clinton.
One day after Barack Obama’s former campaign manager called Donald Trump a “psychopath,” MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski picked up the ball and ran with it, saying the GOP presidential nominee needs to see a psychiatrist for the good of the country.
Yesterday Scarborough called Trump “Stalinist.”
Mika and Joe have a long history of attacking Donald Trump. In the wake of Trump’s tweets the media has been stricken by the onset of amnesia. It’s not as though this incident sprang into existence like negative energy. And the thing is, Mika did have plastic surgery:
And that face-lift?
The TV couple reported that Mika never had one.
“She did have a little skin under her chin tweaked, but this was hardly a state secret,” Joe’s voice said in the op-ed. “Her mother suggested she do so, and all those around her were aware of this mundane fact.”
Yesterday Chris Matthews implied that Trump should have his son-in-law Jared Kushner murdered.
And they call Trump crazy.
Trump is not imagining things. The media is overwhelmingly biased against him. The press cast off its objectivity last year.
This transparent bias is a national phenomenon, infecting both print and television media to such an extent that it has become almost impossible to separate coverage of the Trump campaign from attempts to tear it down. The media has long been accused of having a liberal slant, but in this cycle journalists seem to have cast themselves as defenders of the republic against what they see as a major threat, and in playing this role they’ve lost the ability to assess events rationally.
The media has taken to literally fabricating stories to visit harm on Trump:
There are great benefits to be reaped by publishing alarmist claims about the Russian Threat and Trump’s connection to it. Stories that depict the Kremlin and Putin as villains and grave menaces are the ones that go most viral, produce the most traffic, generate the most professional benefits such as TV offers, along with online praise and commercial profit for those who disseminate them. That’s why blatantly inane anti-Trump conspiracists and Russia conspiracies now command such a large audience: because there is a voracious appetite among anti-Trump internet and cable news viewers for stories, no matter how false, that they want to believe are true (and, conversely, expressing any skepticism about such stories results in widespread accusations that one is a Kremlin sympathizer or outright agent).
What the press is not used to is a pugilistic response. Trump fights back and right now he has the media on its heels, reeling. Meanwhile, behind the curtains Trump is using EO’s to undo obama’s mess, the House even passed Kate’s Law and ISIS is being destroyed. The press is primarily obsessed with whining about its feelings.
They are supposed to be honest.
They’re not.
They’re supposed to stay above the fray, no matter what.
They don’t.
So stick it, Mika. Stick it, Joe. Stick it, media.
As long as Trump continues trying to do what he promised, people will support him. Don’t believe what the press says about Trump. You can’t.
They’re not honest.
Trump’s tweeting was bothering me for a while, but given the virulent hatred of Trump, the baldly disingenuous reportage and the effect of distracting the press from interfering with the agenda, I am becoming a fan. This may not be classically Presidential, but the press isn’t treating Trump with classic Presidential deference either. Trump is Trump. The media is not doing itself any favors. It is spending its integrity in trying to take Trump down. They will not win this war.
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Except for liberals being foolish.
At first its Mika who? Then OMG, CNN are they still on the air( I havent been in an airport lately)? Thats the rigged debates channel. I dont doubt her name was top of the list googled trying to figure out who the hell it was.
He may not have bothered except the channel has recently added to its scandal mountain with the retraction of another fake news story having 3 “journalists” resign.
Just one more nail in the coffin.
Trump is defeating himself. The Fourth Estate is covering the story.
He declared the war. They should have responded with close and critical analysis long before the election, instead of simply handing him a megaphone and giving him a spotlight because he drew a crowd and bumped up ratings. For that, they’re entirely at fault.
The narrow set of crowd-pleasing skills Donald Trump used to get elected are mostly useless when applied to the complex activity of actual governance—something with which he has no experience, minimal understanding, and little or no aptitude. Running a country is not like running a business, nor is it like running a political campaign. It certainly isn’t like running a successful reality television show.
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As with their intention to dynamite the Affordable Care Act at the earliest opportunity, they haven’t got a clue what to replace it with. Trump on Twitter, 7 hours ago:
Does the guy have any clue at all how the health insurance industry would react to nuking Obamacare without immediately rolling out a new set of rules? Do republicans pay any attention to the words coming out of their own mouths, when they observe that the healthcare industry is one-sixth of the national economy?
This Is What CNN Focused On For 13 Hours Straight
Two tweets.
Did nothing else of import happen, CNN?
Well….
Pres Trump announced an and to patience with North Korea.
Brain-eating amoeba found in LA waters.
Bernie and spouse having money mismanagement investigation.
Illinois is going under.
The Travel ban took effect.
China is building military installations on its man-made islands in the So China Seas.
Robotic order takers at McDonalds.
Robotic pizza makers at Pizza Hut.
@Nanny G: And LeVoy Finicums Shooting by the FBI is under investigation, shot in the back 3 times. http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2017/06/fbi_agent_indicted_in_connecti.html
@Greg: I read your article from Politico, problem no facts, just feelings nothing more than feelings, downsizing is painful. 6 Billion improperly accounted for during the last reign.
I thought it was your job, noooo I thought you were doing that, well who is suppose to do that? I dont know, not my job.
The media does all it can to hide President Trump’s accomplishments in office.
Like:
President Trump decreased the US Debt in his first 100 days by $100 Billion. (President Obama increased the US debt in his first 100 days by more than $560 Billion.)
The US Manufacturing Index soared to a 33 year high in this period which were the best numbers since 1983 under President Reagan.
President Trump added 298,000 jobs in his first month alone (after President Obama said jobs were not coming back!).
Housing sales are red-hot. In 2011, houses for sale were on the market an average 84 days. This year, it’s just 45 days.
Illegal immigration is down 67% since President Trump’s Inauguration.
NATO announced Allied spending is up $10 Billion because of President Trump.
After being nominated by President Trump, Constitutionalist Judge Neil Gorsuch was confirmed and sworn in as Supreme Court Justice in early April.
At least lately the media has something other than “Russia,” to use up all their air time.
They have “Trump obstructed,”
“Trump is unfit,”
“Mika (whoever she is) never bled.”
The public doesn’t care about the media’s machinations.
They do well on breaking news, like the Nigerian doctor who lost his license to practice because he was homeless and grabbing young women by the crotch, so he tried to kill real doctors.
He changed his name to avoid being outed as a sex offender.
Henry (Hassan) Bello (Obotetukudo)
@Greg:
Uh, no, he didn’t. He didn’t tear into the media until they lit into him with fake news. Yeah, they SHOULD have done close and critical analysis but instead they tried to flush women he had molested out of the woodwork (lo, there were none) and concoct Russian collusion. Of course, they also should have done some work on Hillary as well, but they had already anointed her with the Presidency.
So, in summary, the corrupt media has been running a supportive campaign for liberals, suppressing stories of liberal failure and corruption while inventing stories against Republicans, primarily Trump, to further prop up the rotting and collapsing institution of liberalism. So, the media deserves every attack they get.
You know what has been pleasing the crowd? Going around the world and restoring trust in the US. Revitalizing the economy. Reversing damaging Obama edicts. Rebuilding the VA. Enacting TRUE immigration reform… by merely being in the White House. Getting the ball rolling on Kate’s Law (you explain to me how anyone can oppose a law which merely makes it mandatory to OBEY the law and protect lives) and rebuilding national security. Your liberal crybabying is only hurting YOU, so I encourage more of it.
No one is dynamiting Obamacare; it is collapsing under the weight of its own stupidity. Of course fixing it is difficult; the Democrats made it a very big problem and lying about people dying if it is repaired does not help anyone. They sure didn’t mind when people were kicked off of 7 million policies they had and liked, did they?
@Nanny G: Another story CNN could be covering; the exposure of their incessant lying.
@Bill… Deplorable Me, #7:
The rest of the world thinks this guy has more loose screws than a Studebaker. Trust in him is virtually nonexistent. As for the economy, it’s been staying on course via autopilot since Trump was sworn in. All of the present positive trends were established and in place throughout the last term of the Obama administration. The Trump administration and republican-controlled Congress haven’t actually done anything yet that affects the economy. They’ve only talked, postured, claimed credit, and placed blame.
Republicans have done little but attack the Affordable Care Act since it became law. Propagandizing against it and trying to wreck it has pretty much been their only full-time occupation. They don’t really do anything useful.
It has also become abundantly clear that they never bothered to put together a alternative that they could even come to an agreement about among themselves.
If anything is going to collapse under its own stupidity, it will likely be the GOP. Their incompetence and the uncertainty it’s producing risk throwing the entire health insurance industry into a state of total chaos. They might as well be working to push public demand for a single payer system, because that’s exactly what will happen if they continue on as they are.
Attaining new heights of utter cluelessness:
Trump voter-fraud panel’s data request a gold mine for hackers, experts warn
Trump on states rebuffing his voter fraud effort: ‘What are they trying to hide?’
I don’t know, Donald. But it isn’t only blue states that are refusing to turn over sensitive records to your “distinguished” voter fraud panel.
@Greg: Win any elections lately, Greg? You are still believing the spittle that the journalistic lemmings are spouting. Did you notice that ISIS is being defeated. I thought not.
@Disturber, #10:
Are you referring to Operation Inherent Resolve, the continuing war against ISIS being conducted by the coalition President Obama organized back in late 2014? Because that’s the only war against ISIS that the United States is involved in—despite the fact that the Republican nincompoops who control Congress never got around to authorizing it or allowing a vote to be taken. The strategy is the same strategy that was put in place by Obama. The progress against ISIS has been continuous all along. It’s just that republicans refused to acknowledge it until Trump plopped his clueless butt down in a chair in the Oval Office. His “secret plan” to defeat ISIS was apparently to allow the U.S. military to do what it was already doing, and then take credit for it.
If you click on MORE at the bottom of the Operation Inherent Resolve webpage, you’ll discover that the updates regarding progress against ISIS go pack over 30 pages. Only the most recent 3 pages have been added since Trump was sworn in.
@Greg:
Again, turn off lying CNN and MSNBC, go out and get a dose of reality. You are delusional. Obama has been exposed as a court jester idiot and Trump has begun to restore leadership. Kow towing and submission is no longer the role of the US.
Of course the Republicans attacked the Abysmal Care Act. It was dangerous and it is imploding.
The propaganda GOT us Obamacare; it was based on lies and guaranteed to fail.
Stop whining. If you lose your one last weapon, the corrupt media, you truly are doomed.
@Greg: The key difference being that Obama fired all of the fighting generals and attempted to run the war himself, accomplishing little but providing an opening for the Russians to reenter the Middle East. Trump has turned the war over to Mattis who, unlike Obama, knows a thing or two about military strategy and tactics and has no compunction about destroying the enemy. Yes, Obama started the war, but he made little progress, created chaos that resulted in tens of thousands of civilian casualties, and inhibited the military in its ability to carry on the fight. Moreover, Obama set the stage for the real conflagration by giving Iran and Hezbollah substantial footholds in Syria and Iraq. This is only the beginning but things have changed for the better.
The height of Obama’s military prowess is evident from his handling of Afghanistan, the war that he was going to end with a few drone striker. How did that work out?
@Disturber, #13:
You’ve got to appreciate the right’s capacity for fantasy and historical revision.
General James Mattis was appointed Commander of United States Central Command by President Barack Obama. Central Command controls and coordinates combat operations at the theater level.
Secretary of Defense is the top slot in the Department of Defense bureaucratic hierarchy—“Principal Assistant to the President in all matters relating to the Department of Defense.” Mattis may well be a good choice, but he’s not calling all the shots in the ongoing war against ISIS. His appointment hasn’t turned the tide of battle. The battle has been going against ISIS for a long time now.
Mattis’s appointment was in violation of 10 U.S. Code § 113(a), so the House and Senate passed measures waiving the law in his case.
The republican-majority House totally ignored Obama’s formal request for authorization to use military force against ISIS. For 2 years, they did nothing. They wouldn’t even debate or vote on the request. They were worse than useless then, and are worse than useless now. Had it not been for Obama, there wouldn’t have been an international coalition militarily opposing ISIS. There would have been no Operation Inherent Resolve. What would have happened if ISIS had gone unchecked for all of that time? That’s precisely what would have happened, had we relied on the actions of the republican-majority Congress.
What have they accomplished, in all the time they’ve had control of the House? What have they accomplished, even with control of the Senate, and a republican president in the White House? NOTHING. They also control most state governorships, and most state legislatures. That’s really sorted things out, hasn’t it?
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@Greg:
He already HAD an AUF but wanted one that would hinder the next administration. Obama squandered the chance for a spring offensive in Afghanistan and so pissed off General McChrystal that he eventually committed professional suicide with the aid of an unscrupulous “journalist”.
Tell me, why would Democrats oppose Kate’s Law?
time are no different than in Rome and the coliseum. the coliseum had fake matches and fake deaths. We Who Are About to Die Salute You is a very good book dealing with the fake gladiatorial matches to the gathering of humans and animals. the demorats worked a coercive gradualism during the radicalized muslin terrorist eight year reign.it is now coming to an end. the concept of coercive gradualism is based upon “incrementalism” which is “a policy of making changes, especial social changes by degrees” as noted my William Pierce et al.
The man has lost his mind.
@Greg:
you’re talking Obama here? right? He’s the only one i can think of lately with no experience at anything. Trump has been extremely successful at running businesses, something we’ve needed in the gov for a long long time.
@Greg: 8
Let’s see if I can help reality a little by making your statement a little more truthful.
” Democrats have done little but attack Trump since he became president. Propagandizing against him and trying to wreck his presidency has pretty much been their only full-time occupation. They don’t really do anything useful.” there you go , now it is reality