Richard Grenell ने रीट्वीट किया Mika Brzezinski 
 
 accepting apologies is important. We all fail. But I don’t see that you’ve actually apologized to gays? Your words demean, mock and therefore try to control whole groups by minimizing our humanity. @ morningmikahttps://twitter.com/morningmika/status/1072856682303275009 … ||||| ....She will probably be given a pass, despite their terrible ratings. Congratulations to @ RichardGrenell, our great Ambassador to Germany, for having the courage to take this horrible issue on! ||||| Tweet with a location 
 
 You can add location information to your Tweets, such as your city or precise location, from the web and via third-party applications. You always have the option to delete your Tweet location history. Learn more ||||| Mika Brzezinski is not appearing on Morning Joe Thursday — she’s taking a pre-planned day off. 
 
 Co-host Joe Scarborough opened the show by saying “Mika has the day off with her family, a long-planned family event.” 
 
 The Morning Joe host’s absence comes the day after she landed in hot water for calling Secretary of State Mike Pompeo a “wannabe dictator’s butt-boy” for his comments defending the U.S. response to the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. 
 
 Brzezinski said of Pompeo on Morning Joe Wednesday: “Are the pathetic deflections that we just heard when he appeared on Fox & Friends — is that a patriot speaking? Or a wannabe dictator’s butt-boy? I’m dead serious, I’m asking: are these the words of a patriot?” 
 
 The use of a homophobic slur to refer to Pompeo was met with a widespread backlash, and Brzezinski quickly issued an apology via tweet. 
 
 “SUPER BAD choice of words,” she wrote. “SO SORRY!” 
 
 Totally agree with you -SUPER BAD choice of words .. I should have said “water boy”… like for football teams or something like that.. apologize to @SenatorDurbin too! SO SORRY! https://t.co/zIqsGdK3Tk — Mika Brzezinski (@morningmika) December 12, 2018 
 
 Sen. Dick Durbin was on Morning Joe Wednesday. 
 
 Her comment was condemned by everyone from NPR’s media reporter David Folkenflik to U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grennell. 
 
 This is bad. Will require more from Brzezinski than a Twitterpology. https://t.co/GoTKn23wrl — David Folkenflik (@davidfolkenflik) December 12, 2018 
 
 Watch the video above, courtesy of MSNBC. 
 
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 I was with you, @ morningmika , right up to the “butt boy” comment. Try “toadie” or “lackey” or “stool pigeon” or “ass kisser,” or “traitor,” but maybe don’t equate homosexuality with Mike Pompeo carrying water for the murderous regime in Saudi Arabia. 
 
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– Mika Brzezinski was not on the air Thursday, a day after she caused a ruckus by referring to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as a "butt boy." Her Morning Joe co-host—and husband—Joe Scarborough said Brzezinski was "off with her family, a long-planned family event," reports Mediaite. Her absence, though, seems to have only intensified the scrutiny on her over the remark seen as an anti-gay slur. President Trump, who has a history of enmity with the MSNBC hosts, joined the critics. Details: Trump: "If it was a Conservative that said what 'crazed' Mika Brzezinski stated on her show yesterday, using a certain horrible term, that person would be banned permanently from television," the president wrote. "She will probably be given a pass, despite their terrible ratings." Trump also praised Richard Grenell, the ambassador to Germany, "for having the courage to take this horrible issue on!" Grenell: The ambassador, who is gay, said Brzezinski's initial reponse to the controversy, in which she acknowledged a "SUPER BAD choice of words," didn't cut it. "I don’t see that you’ve actually apologized to gays?" he wrote. "Your words demean, mock and therefore try to control whole groups by minimizing our humanity."