During an interview on Fox News on Thursday President Donald Trump levied a series of personal attacks at prominent female politicians and an MSNBC host, insulting the tone and intelligence of Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and others in the span of just minutes.
In his tirade, Trump singled out Harris, Ocasio-Cortez, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski, blasting each of them in personal terms, continuing days of attacks on Harris after she was named presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden’s running mate.
“Now you have a, sort of a mad woman I call her, because she was so angry and such hatred with Justice [Brett] Kavanaugh,” Trump told Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business Network, complaining for a third consecutive day about the senator’s questioning of his Supreme Court nominee in 2018. “She was the angriest of the group, and they were all angry.”
Trump tweeted prior to the interview that Harris was getting a “free pass” from the media before criticizing her tone toward Biden during the Democratic presidential primary.
“There was nobody meaner or more condescending to Slow Joe, not even me, and yet she quickly evaporated down to almost zero in the polls. Bad!” Trump tweeted.
Trump targeted Ocasio-Cortez after a lengthy riff about his opposition to the Green New Deal that she has championed.
“AOC was a poor student. I won’t say where she went to school, it doesn’t matter,” Trump said. “This is not even a smart person, other than she’s got a good line of stuff. I mean, she goes out and she yaps. These guys, they’re all afraid of her.” Ocasio-Cortez attended Boston University and graduated cum laude in 2011.
Ocasio-Cortez hit back at Trump on Twitter.
“Let’s make a deal, Mr. President: You release your college transcript, I’ll release mine, and we’ll see who was the better student. Loser has to fund the Post Office,” she tweeted, with a nod to Trump’s opposition to funding the U.S. Postal Service ahead of the elections in November, when more mail-in ballots are anticipated due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The president also described Pelosi as “stone cold crazy.” The two have not spoken in months after trading barbs in public numerous times.
Trump in a tweet additionally went after Brzezinski in personal terms after championing the ratings of his preferred cable news morning show, “Fox & Friends.”
“Very poor morning TV ratings for MSDNC’s Morning Joe, headed by a complete Psycho named Joe Scarborough and his ditzy airhead wife, Mika, and also @CNN, headed by complete unknowns. Congratulations to @foxandfriends on dominating the mornings (thank you President Trump!),” Trump tweeted.
Brzezinski responded on MSNBC, calling out Trump over his repeated clashes with women who are critical of him.
“What’s your thing with women?” Brzezinski said. “You really have a lot of problems with women, like you’re scared of them or something. I think this Kamala thing has you completely strung out.”
The president’s broadsides against women on Thursday follow days of attacks from him and his allies on Harris in particular, but they also reflect a broader pattern he has shown dating back to his campaign for office.
Let’s make a deal, Mr. President:
You release your college transcript, I’ll release mine, and we’ll see who was the better student.
Loser has to fund the Post Office. https://t.co/OXnmJxufIw
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) August 13, 2020
After calling Kamala Harris "a mad woman" and AOC "not even a smart person," Trump refers to Nancy Pelosi as "stone cold crazy." #misogyny pic.twitter.com/S33jl77liU
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 13, 2020
On Maria Bartiromo's show for one of his public therapy sessions, Trump refers to Kamala Harris as "a mad woman" pic.twitter.com/kXfai20ODa
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) August 13, 2020
The Fake News Media is giving @KamalaHarris a free pass despite her Radical Left failures and very poor run in the Democrat Primary. There was nobody meaner or more condescending to Slow Joe, not even me, and yet she quickly evaporated down to almost zero in the polls. Bad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 13, 2020
Very poor morning TV ratings for MSDNC’s Morning Joe, headed by a complete Psycho named Joe Scarborough and his ditzy airhead wife, Mika, and also @CNN, headed by complete unknowns. Congratulations to @foxandfriends on dominating the mornings (thank you President Trump!).
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 13, 2020
