MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough responded to President Donald Trump's insulting tweets in a Washington Post article, which begins:

President Trump launched personal attacks against us Thursday, but our concerns about his unmoored behavior go far beyond the personal. America’s leaders and allies are asking themselves yet again whether this man is fit to be president. We have our doubts, but we are both certain that the man is not mentally equipped to continue watching our show, “Morning Joe.”

The president’s unhealthy obsession with our show has been in the public record for months, and we are seldom surprised by his posting nasty tweets about us. During the campaign, the Republican nominee called Mika “neurotic” and promised to attack us personally after the campaign ended. This year, top White House staff members warned that the National Enquirer was planning to publish a negative article about us unless we begged the president to have the story spiked. We ignored their desperate pleas.

They go on to write:

From his menstruation musings about Megyn Kelly, to his fat-shaming treatment of a former Miss Universe, to his braggadocio claims about grabbing women’s genitalia, the 45th president is setting the poorest of standards for our children. We were heartened to hear a number of Republican lawmakers call out Mr. Trump for his offensive words and can only hope that the women who are closest to him will follow their examples. It would be the height of hypocrisy to claim the mantle of women’s empowerment while allowing a family member to continue such abusive conduct.

On MSNBC, guest host Donny Deutsch pulled no punches in his response, according to IJR.

Deutsch said that Trump had “picked the wrong schoolyard to come into.” He continued by defending Brzezinski: “I'm not an employee of NBC so I'm going to go thug here. I'm sorry. Because a friend of ours, she's a good woman, she's a great mom, and he's a pig. He's a vulgar pig.” 

He also said that the President was "disgusting to look at," and said that it's time to retire Michelle Obama's "when they go low, we go high" response to criticism. Watch the opening segment below:

When Scarborough and Brzezinski dropped in to address the controversy themselves,  Brzezinski said she's had so much support in the day after the President's tweet. She also said that she was “okay," but the country is not okay.