President Trump unified Washington Thursday — in opposition to a pair of tweets he wrote in which he criticized a female MSNBC anchor and said she had undergone plastic surgery.
“Obviously, I don’t see this as an appropriate comment,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said when asked about the tweets Thursday.
“I think it’s a blatantly sexist [tweet],” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said of Trump’s social media rant. “That really saddens me because it is so beneath the dignity of the president of the United States to engage in such behavior.”
Criticism of Trump’s comments poured in from both sides of the aisle and spilled into the White House briefing room on Thursday, where deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders faced an onslaught of questions about whether the president crossed an ethical line with his tweets.
The host he attacked, MSNBC “Morning Joe” co-anchor Mika Brzezinski, has been an outspoken critic of Trump and has even questioned his mental stability.
Few rallied to Trump’s defense in the wake of his attack on Brzezinski, and even the president’s strongest supporters questioned the wisdom of his early-morning Twitter tirade.
Laura Ingraham, a conservative radio host who has been considered as a possible candidate for press secretary, chided Trump for diverting attention away from his administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
And Mike Huckabee, a longtime Trump supporter and father to Sanders, stopped short Thursday of saying his daughter defended the president’s words and cautioned Trump against using the same harsh tactics in future situations.
Trump’s tweets about Brzezinski come as Republicans in the Senate struggle to sell their Obamacare repeal legislation to the public in one voice amid intra-party disputes about the direction of the healthcare plan.
And Mike Huckabee, a longtime Trump supporter and father to Sanders, stopped short Thursday of saying his daughter defended the president’s words and cautioned Trump against using the same harsh tactics in future situations.
Trump’s tweets about Brzezinski come as Republicans in the Senate struggle to sell their Obamacare repeal legislation to the public in one voice amid intra-party disputes about the direction of the healthcare plan.
The president, who had stayed mostly on the sidelines of the Obamacare repeal debate as senators put together a bill behind closed doors over the past month, emerged as a leading spokesman for the bill after the GOP released it last week. His latest tweets could provide a distraction from his efforts to build support for the policy.
But it wouldn’t be the first time Trump’s social media antics disrupted the work of his White House and united lawmakers against his Twitter feed.
Earlier this month, for example, Trump seemingly announced that he was under investigation for alleged obstruction of justice just as the frenzy surrounding former FBI Director James Comey’s testimony before Congress had finally begun to die down.
source: washingtonexaminer
check out LATEST tRUMP nEWS ON MCNNOW