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President Trump inadvertently gave _Morning Joe_'s ratings a boost when he lashed out last week at the hosts of the "poorly rated" MSNBC show. The Nielsen company reported
Wednesday that a record 1.66 million people tuned in to _Morning Joe_ on Friday, beating the show's previous viewership record set the day after Trump won the presidential election.
Even Trump tuned into _Morning Joe_ for the "first time in [a] long time" Friday, which he admitted in a tweet disparaging the "low rated" show. Trump had claimed
Thursday morning in his tweets — in which he called co-host Mika Brzezinski "low I.Q. Crazy Mika" and claimed she was "bleeding badly from a face-lift" when she was at
Mar-a-Lago late last year — that he didn't "watch anymore." SUBSCRIBE TO THE WEEK Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple
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