Brzezinski Slams Fox & Friends Hosts: ‘How Could Two Men and a Woman in This Day and Age…’
Wednesday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, cohost Mika Brzezinski ripped into yesterday’s phone-in interview that GOP nominee Donald Trump did on the rival morning show Fox & Friends.
Trump’s hit Tuesday was on the morning show that has been most favorable to the Republican nominee — one that regularly offers a sort of unchallenged cocoon of cable coddling for Trump — and came just hours after the completion of the first debate against Hillary Clinton.
The subject of part of the Fox News interview was centered on controversial statements made by Trump years ago against former Miss Universe Alicia Machado, who Trump called “Miss Piggy” following a weight gain. It made for a memorable point in Monday’s debate that Clinton used against Trump; the Democratic party nominee said on stage at Hofstra University, “[O]ne of the worst things [Trump] said was about a woman in a beauty contest — he loves beauty contests, supporting them and hanging around them — and he called this woman ‘Miss Piggy,’ then he called her ‘Miss Housekeeping’ because she was Latina.” She firmly continued a beat later, “Donald, she has a name. Her name is Alicia Machado. And she has become a US citizen and you can bet she is going to vote this November.”
The man himself explained it away thusly on Fox & Friends Tuesday:
That person was a Miss Universe person, and she was the worst we ever had. The worst. The absolute worst. She was impossible… you know, she gained a massive amount of weight. And it was a real problem. We had a real problem. Not only that — her attitude. We had a real problem.
Brzezinski was incensed Wednesday when Morning Joe replayed the clip from Fox & Friends.
“That conversation went on; and no one said to him, What? Excuse me, did you just say, What? Did you just say she gained a lot of weight and that was a problem? Well I’ve never seen a more awkward interview of my life, and quite frankly, the most unfulfilling interview of my life,” Brzezinski said ripping into her 6 a.m. – 9 a.m. competition.
She continued angrily, “How could they not ask him — how could two men and a women in this day and age, who know this world that we live in — not say, ‘That is incredibly inappropriate’? Would you like to rephrase yourself?” The hosts for Fox & Friends are in fact “two men and a women”: Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, and Ainsley Earhardt.
“They looked uncomfortable to say the least,” added Joe Scarborough.
Watch above via MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
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