Morning Joe Hits Melania’s Anti-Bullying Campaign: ‘She Sleeps With the Worst Bully in America’

Morning Joe took on First Lady Melania Trump’s new initiative to combat cyber bullying, with co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski taking great pleasure in pointing out the hypocrisy of such a campaign.

Brzezinski brought up a New York Times report that “the first lady is aware of criticism directed at her bullying prevention efforts, given the president’s proclivity for digital insults —”

“For, actually, bullying,” Scarborough said. “If you are going to pick anything, that’s an interesting thing for Melania to pick considering, well, I mean, all the insults.”

“[Trump’s] constantly cyber bullying. Really? That’s fascinating, remember the beauty queen he said was fat? And ‘Liddle’ Bob Corker, ‘Little’ Marco [Rubio] — he makes fun of people for being small.”

Scarborough also recalled that during the 2016 campaign, Trump encouraged rally-goers to rough-up protestors, before pointing out that he and Brzezinski have also been the target of the president’s bullying.

“We’ve got the Mika thing,” Scarborough said, referring to a tweet Trump sent out in June in which he said Brzezinski was “bleeding badly from a face-lift.”

“Oh my face,” Brzezinski lamented.

“At least Melania stepped out and condemned him for — oh wait no she didn’t,” Scarborough quipped.

“She attacked me,” Brzezinski said.

The Morning Joe panel continued to run through the president’s bullying greatest hits, with MSNBC’s Willie Geist noting that Melania’s initiative shows an “obvious level of hypocrisy.”

“Maybe she should start with Patient X, or Patient Zero…when she sleeps with the worst bully in America,” Scarborough said.

Watch above, via MSNBC.

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