President Trump has reached a new low with a viciously sexist personal attack directed at MSNBC's Morning Joe's female host Mika Brzezinski.
But this time he got the dressing-down he deserved - with a swinging shot hitting just below the belt.
During the habitual early morning tweetstorm, Trump lashed out at Brzezinski and her co-host Joe Scarborough with a frankly astonishing (even for him) sequence:
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But Brzezinski was having none of it, and calmly but surely hit back with a not-so-veiled reference to Trump's teeny-tiny hands (and consequently his teeny-tiny penis):
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If this is not a *giant* mic drop, we don't know what is...
In a statement, an MSNBC spokesperson responded to Trump's tweets saying: "It's a sad day for America when the president spends his time bullying, lying and spewing petty personal attacks instead of doing his job."
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Mark Kornblau, the head of PR for NBC News and MSNBC, also chipped in, saying:
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Meanwhile, the blowback against Trump's latest rant is growing, even from his own party.
Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) said the president's tweet was "beneath the office" and represents "what is wrong with American politics, not the greatness of America":
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Another Republican, Lynn Jenkins, who serve US Representative for Kansas's 2nd congressional district, said:
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Republican Senator Ben Sasse, from the state of Nebraska, is basically begging Trump to stop being such a tool on Twitter:
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