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Article snippet: President Trump’s extraordinary attack on the television host Mika Brzezinski on Thursday capped a week of mounting acrimony between the White House and the press. But at a moment when the news media is increasingly fractured, the personal and crude nature of Mr. Trump’s Twitter remarks about Ms. Brzezinski, the co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” proved to be an equal-opportunity stunner, sparking a backlash that spanned the news industry’s usual divides. Shortly before 9 a.m., Mr. Trump taunted Ms. Brzezinski and her co-host and fiancé, Joe Scarborough, as “low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe” and described a meeting with Ms. Brzezinski in which, the president claimed, “she was bleeding badly from a face-lift.” The coarseness of his remark — which echoed previous instances in which the president attacked prominent women, including the anchor Megyn Kelly and the Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, about their physical appearance — drew rebukes even within the bulwarks of the Trump-friendly news media. “Is — is that necessary?” asked the Fox News anchor Bill Hemmer, referring to the graphic nature of Mr. Trump’s comments, as Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the deputy White House press secretary, argued that Mr. Trump’s harsh words were justified. Brit Hume, the veteran Fox News analyst, called it “absurd” that a president could feel bullied by hosts of a cable news show. “I love sick burns on Twitter, but I’m not president of the United States,” the Rep... Link to the full article to read more