President Trump unified Washington Thursday — in opposition to a pair of tweets he wrote in which he criticized a female MSNBC anchor and said she had undergone plastic surgery.
"Obviously, I don't see this as an appropriate comment," House Speaker Paul Ryan said when asked about the tweets Thursday.
"I think it's a blatantly sexist [tweet]," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said of Trump's social media rant. "That really saddens me because it is so beneath the dignity of the president of the United States to engage in such behavior."
Criticism of Trump's comments poured in from both sides of the aisle and spilled into the White House briefing room on Thursday, where deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders faced an onslaught of questions about whether the president crossed an ethical line with his tweets.
The host he attacked, MSNBC "Morning Joe" co-anchor Mika Brzezinski, has been an outspoken critic of Trump and has even questioned his mental stability.
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01.18.2025