Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:04 pm
If you look at Morning Joe’s twitter feed, you find a lot of stuff Donald Trump might find, let’s say, uncongenial to his self-image, from tweets about his uninspiring poll numbers, to his failure to connect with the Hispanic community and African American voters.
Yes, Scarborough recently said he thinks Trump is only pretending to be a racist #$%hat, but even that must have struck Trump as a sort of backhanded compliment – and certainly not helpful with his outreach to white nationalists – and Scarborough had, after all, called on the GOP to remove Trump as its nominee.
Watching the show this morning, Trump had had enough, and took to twitter to express his displeasure as only Trump can.
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Trump first sent this tweet:
Tried watching low-rated @Morning_Joe this morning, unwatchable! @morningmika is off the wall, a neurotic and not very bright mess!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2016
And then followed it up with this:
Some day, when things calm down, I'll tell the real story of @JoeNBC and his very insecure long-time girlfriend, @morningmika. Two clowns!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 22, 2016
Morning Joe was unfazed, playing along by tweeting back Trump Style:
@HillaryClinton is targeting key swing states today while Trump starts his day obsessed with cable news hosts while channeling Gawker. SAD!
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) August 22, 2016
He followed that up with this burner:
Neurotic and not very bright?
Look in the mirror. https://t.co/FPaqGW9JWv— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) August 22, 2016
Ouch.
His string of responses culminated with a thank you:
Thanks for watching.
Morning Joe is enjoying it's best ratings ever thanks to obsessed fans like you. GLAD😀 https://t.co/FPaqGW9JWv— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) August 22, 2016
Trump just has to be Trump. He can criticize and insult people all day long but can’t take any critiques in return without lashing out like a grade-schooler. Of course, Joe showed he can give as well. About the only thing you can count on at this point is not seeing Trump revisit the Morning Joe set.
The truly amazing thing is that Republicans, upset at every urbane utterance from President Obama – and remember how offended they were that Obama had words with Fox News? – now seem completely unfazed by this sort of childish tantrum from their candidate.
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
