Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski reached their biggest audience ever when they talked Friday about President Donald Trump’s tweets about their show.
The Nielsen company said Wednesday that 1.66 million people watched the MSNBC’s morning show, Morning Joe the day after the tweets. That narrowly beat the show’s previous record, which came the day after Trump was elected last year.
WATCH: Donald Trump’s Twitter tirade against MSNBC’s Morning Joe.
Last week, Trump lashed out at Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, co-hosts of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” on Twitter. He received broad condemnation for his tweets calling Brzezinski “crazy” and saying she was “bleeding badly from a face-lift.” The comment was decried as sexist and vulgar by many Democrats and Republicans.
Trump continued the Twitter attacks Saturday, tweeting, “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!”
But Friday’s Morning Joe proved more popular than Trump’s favourite morning show, “Fox & Friends.” Even Trump tweeted that he watched “Morning Joe” on Friday.