Mika Brzezinski has given a great illustration of the radical feminist rallying cry: "the personal is political." Or, as good old Louis XIV might have said, "l'etat, c'est Mika!"
On today's Morning Joe, a manifestly miffed Mika said of Ivanka Trump:
"I know you don't care about the country and I know you don't care about us and our lives, I know you don't because I reached out to you and you didn't write back."
Aww. Poor Mika. Ivanka didn't write back. And here Brzezinski thought they were BFFs. Don't tell us Ivanka likes that other girl in homeroom better!
I don't know about you, but when I write to senior members of a presidential administration, I too expect a personal response—pronto! And if they don't respond to my missive, it's conclusive proof that they don't care about America!
Seriously: could Mika possibly be more egocentric? Put her pic in the dictionary next to "solipsism."
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Still ahead on Morning Joe, Ivanka Trump looks to credit the White House for lowering the flag to half-staff.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good Lord.
MIKA: As if that should be in question, like if your biggest accomplishment of the day is to get the White House to do something it should have done and does do for history at times. You really need to rethink your role here.
. . .
I'm think thinking this is bad for your brand, I'm think thinking this is bad for your reputation. I'm thinking that history is going to look at your brand terribly. I know you don't care about the country and I know you don't care about us, and our lives. I know you don't, because I reached out to you and you didn't write back.
But if you care about your brand, bad for your brand.
Perhaps Ivanka is only operating on Mika's "don't call me" principle as she recently told Time magazine:
TIME: You write of a lunch with the President where you and Ivanka raised the issue of women’s advancement. Have you spoken to her since?
MIKA: We are not getting along. I was extremely outspoken about her during the still ongoing and internationally humiliating child-separation policy issue. She wanted to talk. And I was just like, “I’m sorry. There is nothing to talk about until you step up for these children.”
