After taking on the New York Times and Paul Krugman this morning, President Donald Trump shifted his attention to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough, who he nicknamed “Morning Psycho” and now we’re dying:
Sorry to say but @foxandfriends is by far the best of the morning political shows on television. It rightfully has BY FAR the highest ratings, not even close. Morning Psycho (Joe), who helped get me elected in 2016 by having me on (free) all the time, has nosedived, too Angry…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 23, 2019
….Dumb and Sick. A really bad show with low ratings – and will only get worse. CNN has been a proven and long term ratings and beyond disaster. In fact, it rewarded Chris Cuomo with a now unsuccessful prime time slot, despite his massive failure in the morning. Only on CNN!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 23, 2019
Of course, Joe and Mike had to talk about it on the show. But they didn’t get the part where the president credited them for his rise in the polls:
Bahahahahahahahahahhahahaha. @JoeNBC has to bring up Trump’s tweet about “Morning Joe” so they seek relevant but the tweet reminds Joe that they helped boost Trump in the lead up & during the primaries and it’s just…hilarious.
— Andrea Ruth (@AndreaNRuth) April 23, 2019
Here’s the chyron they showed:
— Michael Del Moro (@MikeDelMoro) April 23, 2019
FFS, Chris Cillizza. “Brillz”?
Brillz https://t.co/MDImbPnvV1
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) April 23, 2019
Anyway, we do really like “Morning Psycho” and we expect in on swag pretty soon:
Just sidestepping the stampede of entrepreneurs now rushing to put “Morning Psycho” on coffee mugs, whatever
— Celeste Katz (@CelesteKatzNYC) April 23, 2019
This one is going to stick:
Aaand #MorningPsycho is tending on Twitter
— Kasie Hunt (@kasie) April 23, 2019
Reporters, however, are mad that the president is playing media critic again:
Continues to amaze me that the President of the United States speaks out on such things as if he’s the editor of @Variety, @tvnewser or the @nytimes media page. https://t.co/DoQsjaICA6
— Ed O'Keefe (@edokeefe) April 23, 2019
Coming soon to CNN: The Trump-o-meter which puts the number of tweets from the president on screen all day long?
Trump has tweeted or retweeted more than 50 times in the last 24 hours.
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) April 23, 2019
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