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   “Republicans will arrive at the 2018 elections with absolutely no   
   accomplishments and nothing to run on,” Tyler said. “In order to effect   
   large-scale public policy change through legislation, you have to have a   
   communications strategy to convince    
   the country that the direction you’re going is somewhere they’d like to   
   go.”    
      
   While Trump’s attack on Thursday morning provoked a big response, the   
   “Morning Joe” hosts have a notorious love-hate relationship with the   
   president. During the 2016 campaign, Trump was a frequent call-in guest to the   
   show and as recently as March    
   retained Joe Scarborough’s advice on matters before addressing Congress. But   
   the MSNBC show has also faced criticism for being too cozy with the   
   administration.    
      
   Scarborough and Brzezinski have since become increasingly critical of the   
   president, and Trump has repeatedly attacked them on Twitter, but Thursday's   
   messages marked a new low.    
      
   Brzezinski responded to Trump shortly after his tweets on Thursday with her   
   own post of a Cheerios box detailing a child and the slogan “Made For Little   
   Hands” — a seemingly pointed reference to the campaign trail during which   
   Trump’s hand size    
   was often targeted.    
      
   MSNBC, meanwhile, was direct and unsparing in its criticism.    
      
   “It’s a sad day for America when the president spends his time bullying,   
   lying and spewing petty personal attacks instead of doing his job,” an MSNBC   
   spokesperson said, echoing a similar sentiment from the organization's   
   spokesman Mark Kornblau,    
   who tweeted that he “never imagined a day when I would think to myself, 'it   
   is beneath my dignity to respond to the President of the United States.’”    
      
   It was not immediately clear what specific comments set off the Twitter   
   attacks this morning, but Brzezinski did hit the president this morning on   
   “lying ... and destroying the country.”    
      
   “Nothing makes a man feel better than making a fake cover of a magazine   
   about himself, lying every day and destroying the country,” Brzezinski said   
   in reference to a Washington Post report that alleges a fabricated Time   
   magazine cover photo featuring    
   Trump is hanging in at least five of his golf clubs.    
      
   Also, on Tuesday’s episode of “Morning Joe,” Brzezinski and Scarborough   
   went back and forth on Trump’s hand size and his onslaught of media-focused   
   tweets of late.    
      
   “That’s a very small person,” Brzezinski said.    
      
   “I work in cable news and I can tell you that’s sad, pathetic. Think   
   bigger,” Scarborough countered, adding that while the “worst health care   
   strategy ever” rages, Trump’s talking about the media.    
      
   “Keep on being small,” Brzezinski said.    
      
   “Tiny. That’s the word,” Scarborough corrected.    
      
   On the campaign trail, the president was often criticized for his treatment of   
   women, most notably after the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape in which   
   Trump can be heard bragging about sexually assaulting women.    
      
      
   http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/29/trump-targets-morning-j   
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