President Trump’s latest tweet may have offended dozens of Beverly Hills plastic surgeons and their patients when he mocked a woman TV host for “bleeding badly from a face-lift.”
Trump ran into a buzz saw of media and feminist criticism when he recalled the appearance of MSNBC’s Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski, 50. Trump not only seemed to insult her as “low IQ,” he called show co-host and hubby-to-be Joe Scarborough“Psycho Joe.”
The Washington Post quoted the chair of UCLA’s Social Science Interdepartmental Program as saying officials at her 12-year-old daughter’s school would never allow such bullying.
“Girls are taught their social worth depends on whether they’re considered pretty. And that is a way of disempowering all of our daughters.”
One easily vetted morning tweet from Trump was about “Morning Joe” ratings.
The president referred to “poorly rated @Morning_Joe,” and Mediapost noted:
In May, “Morning Joe” was up 56% over its 2016 total viewer average to a Nielsen 1.06 million total average viewers. The show is also up 53% among key 25-54 viewers to 254,000. For all of 2016, the show averaged 677,000 viewers and 166,000 adult viewers ages 25-54.
May results for “Morning Joe” are also higher than its average second-quarter 2017 viewer data — 997,000 total viewers and 236,000 viewers ages 25-54.
As of May, the MSNBC show is currently in second place in total viewers and third place among 25-54 viewers against other cable news programs in the 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. time period. Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends” leads with 1.64 million viewers and 372,000 25-54 viewers. CNN’s “New Day” is at 682,000 total viewers and 255,000 25-54 viewers.
But that’s a sideshow compared with the controversy of Trump’s tweets on other angles.