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Friday 30 June 2017
Trump pans TV host’s looks,

brains; Republicans plead, Stop!

By LAURIE KELLMAN and On Trump’s level of insult- “Nothing makes a man feel
JONATHAN LEMIRE trading, Brzezinski respond- better than making a fake
Associated Press ed on Twitter by posting a cover of a magazine about
WASHINGTON (AP) — photograph of a Cheeri- himself, lying every day
President Donald Trump os box that included the and destroying the coun-
launched a crude Twitter phrase “made for little try,” Brzezinski said.
attack on the brains, looks hands.” People looking to Trump, who has a habit of
and temperament of a fe- get under the president’s throwing up distractions
male TV personality Thurs- skin have long suggested to deflect bad news, has
day, drawing bipartisan that his hands appear small been straining to advance
In this Dec. 2, 2014, file photo, Mika Brzezinski arrives at the howls of outrage and leav- for his frame. his agenda lately, with the
Ninth Annual Women of Worth Awards in New York. ing fellow Republicans be- Trump’s allies cast his out- Senate this week coming
Associated Press seeching him: Stop, please burst as positive, an exam- up short in finding enough
just stop. ple of his refusal to be bul- votes to begin debate on
Trump’s tweets aimed at lied. White House spokes- a bill to roll back President
MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski re- woman Sarah Huckabee Barack Obama’s health
vived concerns about his Sanders said the president care law.
views of women in a city was “pushing back against His demeaning broadside
where civility already is in people who have at- against a woman raised
short supply and he is strug- tacked him day after day new complaints among
gling for any support he after day. Where is the out- critics who have long ac-
can get for his proposals on rage on that?” cused him of sexism and in-
health care, immigration “The American people flaming tensions in a deep-
and other controversial is- elected a fighter; they ly polarized nation. Trump
sues. “I heard poorly rat- didn’t elect somebody to also has consistently stoked
ed @Morning_Joe speaks sit back and do nothing,” a long-running feud with
badly of me (don’t watch she added. the press that has not hurt
anymore),” Trump tweeted First lady Melania Trump, him with his base of roughly
to his nearly 33 million fol- who has vowed to fight cy- a third of the electorate.
lowers Thursday morning. berbullying while her hus- But one expert rejected the
“Then how come low I.Q. band is president, gave his idea that Trump’s tweets
Crazy Mika, along with tweets a pass. about the MSNBC hosts
Psycho Joe, came to Mar- “As the first lady has stat- amounted to a calculated
a-Lago 3 nights in a row ed publicly in the past, push-back against the me-
around New Year’s Eve, when her husband gets dia. “It’s not a critique of
and insisted on joining me. attacked, he will punch the press. It’s a diatribe. It’s
She was bleeding badly back 10 times harder,” her a rant,” said Theodore L.
from a face-lift. I said no!” communications director, Glasser, professor emeritus
The tweets served to unite Stephanie Grisham, said in at Stanford University and
Democrats and Republi- a statement. an expert in mass media.
cans for once in a chorus The White House has shown It wasn’t the first time Trump
of protest that amounted increasing irritation over has assailed a television
to perhaps the loudest out- harsh coverage of the personality who is a wom-
cry since Trump took office. president on Brzezinski and an. In 2015, he went after
“Obviously I don’t see that Scarborough’s “Morning then-Fox News Channel
as an appropriate com- Joe,” including commen- host Megyn Kelly when she
ment,” said Republican tary questioning Trump’s questioned him at a de-
House Speaker Paul Ryan. mental state. bate. Trump said later that
House Democratic lead- About two hours before his during the exchange, Kelly
er Nancy Pelosi called tweets, Brzezinski said on had “blood coming out of
Trump’s tweets, “blatantly the show that “it’s not nor- her wherever.”
sexist.” The president, she mal behavior” for any lead- It’s also far from the only
added, “happens to disre- er to be tweeting about time he’s raised eyebrows
spect women ... it’s sad.” people’s appearances or with remarks about the
Republican Sen. James to be bullying, lying, un- physical attributes of wom-
Lankford of Oklahoma dermining managers and en. Just this week in the
even linked the president’s throwing people under Oval Office, Trump inter-
harsh words to the June 14 the bus. She said that if rupted his phone conver-
shootings of House Major- any business executive sation with the new prime
ity Whip Steve Scalise and behaved the way Trump minister of Ireland to re-
three others. does, “there would be con- mark on a “beautiful” Irish
“The president’s tweets to- cern that perhaps the per- journalist in the room and
day don’t help our political son who runs the company take note of the “nice smile
or national discourse and is out of his mind.” on her face.”
do not provide a positive On Wednesday, she had The latest flare-up did noth-
role model for our national mocked Trump after a story ing to improve Trump’s
dialogue,” Lankford said, in The Washington Post said chances of advancing
noting that he had just he had posted fake Time the health care bill that
chaired a hearing on the magazine covers of himself formed a centerpiece of
shootings. in some of his golf resorts. his campaign.q