The feud between President Donald Trump and MSNBC host Joe Scarborough has been kept under wraps in recent months, but it exploded in a very big way on Tuesday.
That is when The Washington Post published an editorial by Scarborough with the headline ‘Trump is harming the dream of America more than any foreign adversary ever could’.
Scarborough wrote in his piece about that ‘the tragic lessons of that time are still lost on our leaders,’ referring to both George W. Bush and Barack Obama as well as Trump.
He did single out Trump however in the headline and to close the piece, while suggesting that the president’s supporters were complicit in his actions. He also tweeted it out.
Donald Trump Jr was none to happy with this, and replied: ‘Joe you owe an apology to the 3000+ families who lost loved ones on this tragic day. Injecting politics today is disgraceful and only shows how irrelevant and deranged you’ve become.’
Morning, Joe: Joe Scarborough (above in July 2017) is dealing with backlash after he wrote an op ed for The Washington Post on the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks
‘Hey F***hole. My dads office on 9/11,’ wrote one woman, who included a photo of the blown out walls of a building she claimed was taken after the attacks.
Mea culpa: ‘I should have shown more care on the tweet’s wording and the column’s conclusion,’ Scarborough later admitted on Twitter (above)
‘Sixteen years of strategic missteps have been followed by the maniacal moves of a man who has savaged America’s vital alliances, provided comfort to hostile foreign powers, attacked our intelligence and military communities, and lent a sympathetic ear to neo-Nazis and white supremacists across the globe,’ he wrote.
Scarborough’s piece also led to some very swift backlash from the families and friends of the men and women who lost their lives that day.
‘Hey F***hole. My dads office on 9/11,’ wrote one woman, who included a photo of the blown out walls off a building she suggested was taken after the attacks.
‘Tell me again how Trump is like a terrorist that did this to my father’s office? You are vile. You are sick and twisted.’
DailyMail.com was unable to confirm if that photo was taken from the scene that day.
‘Again, you put the focus on YOU rather than the 3000+ Americans and their families that died. You should be ashamed, but I’m afraid you are too far gone for that,’ wrote another person on Twitter.
And a third individual said: ‘A family member of a 9/11 victims, while standing at the site today honoring those who died, said to please STOP using the 9/11 as a political prop to go after Trump. The families are the ones who could tell Joe, NOTHING is worse than what happened to them that day.’
Scarborough did get some positive feedback, most notably from Bill Bratton, the former NYPD commissioner, who wrote: ‘On this very meaningful day, Joe Scarborough’s op-ed is so appropriate. Nice work.’
A few hours after the article was published, Scarborough did dial back on the remarks he made in the piece and offer up something of an apology.
‘Many have been offended by a tweet I sent out earlier re: my article. Even if they did not read the article, I should have shown more care on the tweet’s wording and the column’s conclusion,’ said Scarborough.
He did not mention that the tweet was actually the headline of the piece, which is repeated in his closing lines.
‘The column was focused on 17 years of strategic missteps. The last paragraph became the sole focus of Trump supporters. On every other day of the year, I do not shy away from negative feedback from the right, the left or from Trump supporters,’ he went on to say.
‘On September 11th, I’ll read the column again and think about whether I could have said the same thing in a way less offensive to Trump supporters on September 11th.’