Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski reels after Trump's latest tweets: 'It feels like he's treating Sessions ... like Rosie O'Donnell'

Morning Joe's Mika Brzezinski suggested Tuesday that President Trump's recent treatment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions isn't all that different from Trump's treatment of one of his greatest mortal enemies. "It feels like he's treating Sessions and many others along the way in this administration like Rosie O'Donnell," Brzezinski said.
Now, Trump has not called Sessions "crude, rude, obnoxious, and dumb" — all among the words he's used to describe O'Donnell in their decade-long insult battle. On Tuesday, however, Trump did call Sessions out on Twitter for his "VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes." The day before, Trump labeled Sessions "beleaguered."
Morning Joe co-host Joe Scarborough contended that Trump's tweets indicate he's "still in that mindset" of his old days battling O'Donnell and "insulting each other back and forth." "It was just a media spectacle," Scarborough said. "He doesn't understand that when he's in Washington, D.C. and he is fighting his attorney general and he is fighting Bob Mueller and he is fighting James Comey that this isn't a media game."
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When you're president you don't just "boost your ratings up," Scarborough quipped. "Even Rosie O'Donnell would say that — it's not a game," he added.
Watch it below. The O'Donnell comparison comes in around the 6:36 mark. Becca Stanek
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