Who Are Mika Brzezinski And Joe Scarborough? Why Is Donald Trump Attacking Them?

President Donald Trump started a new Twitter feud Thursday with talk show hosts Mika Brzezinski And Joe Scarborough, attacking them both personally.

Scarborough and Brzezinski host the show “Morning Joe” on MSNBC. The show debuted in 2007 and plays weekdays at 6 a.m. The show covers news of the day.

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Brzezinski is a longtime broadcast journalist, starting her career at ABC’s “World News This Morning,” as an assistant before moving to a local station and then eventually working her way up through the ranks of CBS. She then began working at MSNBC in 2007.

Scarborough began his career as a lawyer before running for and winning a House seat representing Florida’s 1^st district. Scarborough ran as a Republican and held the seat from 1995-2001. In 2003 Scarborough began his career in television with the show “Scarborough Country,” on MSNBC.

The two co-hosts announced their engagement in May 2017.

Trump started the spat when he attacked the two, especially Brzezinski’s looks.

“I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!” wrote the president across two tweets Thursday.

Trump went after the show again Friday.

“Watched low rated @Morning_Joe for first time in long time. FAKE NEWS. He called me to stop a National Enquirer article. I said no! Bad show,” the president tweeted.

The Enquirer article detailed the private lives of Brzezinski and Scarborough and examined their previous marriages. Scarborough had been married twice before, and Brzezinski was divorced from her previous husband in 2016.

Brzezinski and Scarborough published an op-ed in the Washington Post Friday, entitled “Donald Trump is not well,” and they had a different take on the Enquirer story.

“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. We ignored their desperate pleas,” the two wrote.

Amongst tweets attacking CNN and the media in general, Trump had another attack against Brzezinski and Scarborough Saturday.

“Crazy Joe Scarborough and dumb as a rock Mika are not bad people, but their low rated show is dominated by their NBC bosses. Too bad!” tweeted Trump.

The relationship between the president and co-hosts wasn’t always so tense.

“Morning Joe” had concerned its parent company NBC in 2015 and early 2016 that the two were being too friendly with then-presidential candidate Trump. Trump regularly visited the show and had cozy conversation with the duo, the New York Times reported Thursday.

“You guys have been supporters, and I really appreciate it. And not necessarily supporters, but at least believers. You said there's some potential there,” Trump said in February 2016.

The relationship began to sour when Scarborough and Brzezinski became increasingly critical of the presidential candidate. Scarborough wrote a May 2016 op-ed in the Washington Post questioning if the Trump campaign could win.

Trump lashed out at the show and its hosts.

“Tried watching low-rated @Morning_Joe this morning, unwatchable! @morningmika is off the wall, a neurotic and not very bright mess!" and "Some day, when things calm down, I'll tell the real story of @JoeNBC and his very insecure long-time girlfriend, @morningmika. Two clowns!” Trump tweeted in August 2016.

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In September 2016 he went after the two again.

“Just heard that crazy and very dumb @morningmika had a mental breakdown while talking about me on the low ratings @Morning_Joe. Joe a mess!” Trump tweeted.

Trump’s most recent tweets have seen condemnation from both sides of the political spectrum, especially his aggression towards Brzezinski in particular. Writing in The New York Times on Saturday, op-ed columnist Maureen Dowd said Trump "mistakes cruelty for strength" and cautioned that his attacks on the "Morning Joe" anchors should "alarm men and women equally."