Mika Brzezinski Defends Sarah Sanders: She Was ‘Humiliated on National Television for Her Looks’

MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski has gone after Sarah Huckabee Sanders more than once, but she agrees with the criticism that Michelle Wolf‘s jokes about her last night went too far.

Brzezinski brought up when President Trump went after her for her looks and called the jokes about the White House Press Secretary “deplorable”:

Watching a wife and mother be humiliated on national television for her looks is deplorable. I have experienced insults about my appearance from the president. All women have a duty to unite when these attacks happen and the WHCA owes Sarah an apology.

— Mika Brzezinski (@morningmika) April 29, 2018

The WHCD should be about honoring the best in journalism. Enough with the comedians, enough with the late-night parties. These are serious times for both the free press and the public they serve.

— Mika Brzezinski (@morningmika) April 29, 2018

Women who use their government positions to spread lies and misinformation deserve to face the same withering criticism as men. But leave our looks out of it. Watching from home, I hurt for Sarah, her husband and her children.

— Mika Brzezinski (@morningmika) April 29, 2018

And …Michelle Wolfe Is talented. Comedians make us laugh/think/uncomfortable- but at WHCD we shld make fun of ourselves, &call it a night.

— Mika Brzezinski (@morningmika) April 29, 2018

UPDATE –– 12:09 pm ET: Wolf has since responded to Brzezinski:

Why are you guys making this about Sarah’s looks? I said she burns facts and uses the ash to create a *perfect* smoky eye. I complimented her eye makeup and her ingenuity of materials. https://t.co/slII9TYdYx

— Michelle Wolf (@michelleisawolf) April 29, 2018

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