Overview
- President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social on June 10, 2026 after Morning Joe read excerpts from a New York Times report by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan about the Jeffrey Epstein files.
- In the post he called Joe Scarborough's show "low rated," accused the hosts of "Trump Derangement Syndrome," and lobbed a personal barb about Willie Geist.
- Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Willie Geist and Jonathan Lemire read the post on air, mocked its claims and linked the attack to their discussion of the Times reporting.
- Reporting noted background details cited during the broadcast, including Scarborough and Brzezinski's March contract renewal and the program's decision to cut a fourth hour, and the hosts highlighted Willie Geist's father Bill Geist after the president's remark.
- News outlets framed the episode as another example of the president using Truth Social to confront media coverage, a pattern that can deepen partisan media clashes and draw wider attention to investigative stories.