TV hosts cancel their holiday to hit back at Donald Trump’s facelift jibe

TV hosts: Joe Scarborough and his fiancée Mika Brzezinski and his fiancée Scarborough
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David Gardner30 June 2017

An American TV presenter and her fiancé co-host cancelled their holiday to respond to President Donald Trump after he claimed on Twitter that he saw her “bleeding from a facelift.”

Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough, who present the MSNBC Morning Joe breakfast show and announced their engagement last month, planned to answer back on air later today.

They want to “sling some bad blood back at Trump,” according to a source at their cable TV network.

Mr Trump, allegedly irritated at being branded “a proven liar” by Brzezinski and Scarborough, had tweeted: “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...to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year’s Eve, and insisted on joining me.

“She was bleeding badly from a facelift. I said no!”

The White House deputy secretary said Donald Trump is a president who "fights fire with fire".
AP

During yesterday’s show Scarborough had rapped the president for his treatment of senior aides and Brzezinski mocked the “teensy” size of his hands.

Wife Melania and the White House defended him from criticism over his remarks.

A spokesman for Mrs Trump said: “When her husband gets attacked, he will punch back 10 times harder.”

And White House deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said:“This is a president who fights fire with fire and certainly will not be allowed to be bullied by a liberal media and the liberal elites within the media or Hollywood or anywhere else.”

Senior Republicans refused to condone the president’s comments.

House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said politicians were trying to “improve the tone and civility of the debate.... this obviously doesn’t help.” Mr Trump was caught up in another sexism row this week after complimenting a blonde TV reporter on her “nice smile”.

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