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Trump's latest Twitter target swings back, and hits him where it hurts

*Mic drop*

Gianluca Mezzofiore

on June 29, 2017

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...

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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":