Two television hosts attacked by Donald Trump have questioned the US President’s mental health and accused him of trying to exert pressure on them over unfavourable coverage.
Key points:
- Mr Trump called the hosts “Psycho Joe” and “low I.Q. Crazy Mika” in tweets
- Couple says he has an “unhealthy obsession” with their program
- They claimed Mr Trump had wanted them to apologise for their coverage of him
Mr Trump drew a barrage of criticism, including from his fellow Republicans, after he called Mika Brzezinski, a co-host of the MSNBC Morning Joe program, “low I.Q. Crazy Mika” and said she was “bleeding badly from a face lift” when she visited his Mar-A-Lago estate around New Year’s Eve.
He referred to her co-host and fiance Joe Scarborough, a former Republican US congressman, as “Psycho Joe”.
The anchors — who were on friendly terms with Mr Trump early in the 2016 presidential campaign but have been critical of him since he took office — responded with a column in The Washington Post on Friday titled: “Donald Trump is not well”.
“This year, top White House staff members warned that the National Enquirer was planning to publish a negative article about us unless we begged the President to have the story spiked,” they wrote.
“We ignored their desperate pleas.”
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