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   Donald Trump is not well By Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough   
      
      
   The Washington Post   
   Opinions   
   Donald Trump is not well   
       
   MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski arrive for the annual White House   
   Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington in 2015. (Jonathan   
   Ernst/Reuters)   
      
   By Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough   
   June 30 at 5:10 AM   
      
   President Trump launched personal attacks against us Thursday, but our   
   concerns about his unmoored behavior go far beyond the personal. America’s   
   leaders and allies are asking themselves yet again whether this man is fit to   
   be president. We have our    
   doubts, but we are both certain that the man is not mentally equipped to   
   continue watching our show, “Morning Joe.”   
      
   The president’s unhealthy obsession with our show has been in the public   
   record for months, and we are seldom surprised by his posting nasty tweets   
   about us. During the campaign, the Republican nominee called Mika   
   “neurotic” and promised to attack    
   us personally after the campaign ended. This year, top White House staff   
   members warned that the National Enquirer was planning to publish a negative   
   article about us unless we begged the president to have the story spiked. We   
   ignored their desperate    
   pleas.   
      
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   'Morning Joe' hosts respond to Trump's barrage of tweets   
       
      
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   MSNBC anchors Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough pointed to President Trump's   
   pattern of vicious attacks on women as "alarming," as he tweeted more attacks.   
   (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)   
   The president’s unhealthy obsession with “Morning Joe” does not serve   
   the best interests of either his mental state or the country he runs. Despite   
   his constant claims that he no longer watches the show, the president’s   
   closest advisers tell us    
   otherwise. That is unfortunate. We believe it would be better for America and   
   the rest of the world if he would keep his 60-inch-plus flat-screen TV tuned   
   to “Fox & Friends.”   
      
      
   For those lucky enough to miss Thursday’s West Wing temper tantrum, the   
   president continued a year-long habit of lashing out at “Morning Joe”   
   while claiming to never watch it. During his early-morning tirade, Mr. Trump   
   spit out schoolyard insults    
   about “low I.Q. Crazy Mika,” “Psycho Joe” and much worse. He also fit   
   a flurry of falsehoods in his two-part tweetstorm.   
      
   Mr. Trump claims that we asked to join him at Mar-a-Lago three nights in a   
   row. That is false. He also claimed that he refused to see us. That is   
   laughable.   
      
   The president-elect invited us both to dinner on Dec. 30. Joe attended because   
   Mika did not want to go. After listening to the president-elect talk about his   
   foreign policy plans, Joe was asked by a disappointed Mr. Trump the next day   
   if Mika could also    
   visit Mar-a-Lago that night. She reluctantly agreed to go. After we arrived,   
   the president-elect pulled us into his family’s living quarters with his   
   wife, Melania, where we had a pleasant conversation. We politely declined his   
   repeated invitations to    
   attend a New Year’s Eve party, and we were back in our car within 15 minutes.   
      
      
   Mr. Trump also claims that Mika was “bleeding badly from a face-lift.”   
   That is also a lie.   
      
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   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. And   
   though it is no one’s business, the president’s petulant personal attack   
   against yet another    
   woman’s looks compels us to report that Mika has never had a face-lift. If   
   she had, it would be evident to anyone watching “Morning Joe” on their   
   high-definition TV. She did have a little skin under her chin tweaked, but   
   this was hardly a state    
   secret. Her mother suggested she do so, and all those around her were aware of   
   this mundane fact.   
      
   More significant is Mr. Trump’s continued mistreatment of women. It is   
   disturbing that the president of the United States keeps up his unrelenting   
   assault on women. From his menstruation musings about Megyn Kelly, to his   
   fat-shaming treatment of a    
   former Miss Universe, to his braggadocio claims about grabbing women’s   
   genitalia, the 45th president is setting the poorest of standards for our   
   children. We were heartened to hear a number of Republican lawmakers call out   
   Mr. Trump for his offensive    
   words and can only hope that the women who are closest to him will follow   
   their examples. It would be the height of hypocrisy to claim the mantle of   
   women’s empowerment while allowing a family member to continue such abusive   
   conduct.   
      
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   Trump's 'Morning Joe' tweets are just the latest step in a years-long feud   
   Trump's long feud with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, explained. (Peter   
   Stevenson/The Washington Post)   
   We have known Mr. Trump for more than a decade and have some fond memories of   
   our relationship together. But that hasn’t stopped us from criticizing his   
   abhorrent behavior or worrying about his fitness. During the height of the   
   2016 presidential    
   campaign, Joe often listened to Trump staff members complain about their   
   boss’s erratic behavior, including a top campaign official who was as close   
   to the Republican candidate as anyone.   
      
      
   We, too, have noticed a change in his behavior over the past few years.   
   Perhaps that is why we were neither shocked nor insulted by the president’s   
   personal attack. The Donald Trump we knew before the campaign was a flawed   
   character but one who still    
   seemed capable of keeping his worst instincts in check.   
      
   Read more here:   
      
   The Post’s View: Trump clearly won’t change. Here’s what the rest of us   
   can do.   
      
   Ruth Marcus: Authoritarianism creeps up on you. This is how.   
      
   Alyssa Rosenberg: Why I’m grateful every time President Trump insults a woman   
      
   Paul Waldman: How Trump’s disgusting behavior will make Republican disunity   
   more likely   
      
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