Trump mocks TV host Mika Brzezinski's 'bleeding facelift'

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The US president accused the TV host of having had plastic surgery

US President Donald Trump has launched a stunning attack on a female news anchor's alleged plastic surgery.

He said MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski was "bleeding badly from a face-lift" during a visit to his Florida gold resort Mar-a-Lago.

In a Twitter salvo, Mr Trump also assailed Brzezinski's MSNBC co-presenter Joe Scarborough.

They are both his occasional sparring partners and she this week accused him of developing a "dictatorship".

"I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore)," he tweeted on Thursday morning.

He also accused "low I.Q. Crazy Mika" and "Psycho Joe" of "insisting on joining me" at Mar-a-Lago over three days at New Year's Eve.

"She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!" he added.

Brzezinksi hit back by tweeting an advert for children's cereal, apparently referring to a taunt often directed at Mr Trump by detractors, that he has small hands.

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During his campaign for president, Mr Trump was a frequent guest on MSNBC's Morning Joe programme, which was accused of giving him favourable treatment.

Mr Trump's broadside is all more the notable since Scarborough and Brzezinski, who are engaged to one another, told Vanity Fair magazine in May that the president had offered to officiate at their wedding ceremony.

A little over a week after Mr Trump was inaugurated they were having lunch with him at the White House, the couple told the Hollywood gossip magazine, when he proposed they wed at his Mar-a-Lago resort, which he has nicknamed the Winter White House.

"That's when [White House senior adviser] Jared [Kushner] interrupted and said, 'Hey, you know what? I've got my license. I could marry you,'" Scarborough told the magazine.

Scarborough said Mr Trump snapped at his son-in-law, saying: "Why would you marry them? They could have the President of the United States marry them."

It comes after Ivanka Trump complained about vituperative attacks on her father earlier this month.

"There's a level of viciousness I wasn't expecting" in Washington DC, the first daughter told Fox News.

Mr Trump's wife, Melania Trump, told a suburban Philadelphia audience during the campaign that she would seek to put an end to cyber-bullying if she became the first lady.

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