On Thursday morning, President Trump tweeted some unkind things about the co-hosts of MSNBC's Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, saying he turned the pair away from Mar-a-Lago over the New Year and alleging that "low I.Q. Crazy Mika" was "bleeding badly from a face-lift." On Friday, Brzezinski and Scarborough responded in a Washington Post op-ed, and their more-in-sorrow-than-anger article included a rebuttal of Trump's tweets.
"Trump claims that we asked to join him at Mar-a-Lago three nights in a row," they wrote. "That is false. He also claimed that he refused to see us. That is laughable." It was the opposite, Brzezinski and Scarborough say — Trump invited them, insisting that Brzezinski come on the second night after she skipped the first. The face-lift jab "is also a lie," they said. "Putting aside Mr. Trump's never-ending obsession with women's blood, Mika and her face were perfectly intact, as pictures from that night reveal." But they saved their best concern-trolling for Trump's claim that he no longer watches their show:
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