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To their credit, hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski told Deutsch that kind of talk wasn’t necessary.

“OK, OK, Donny. No, no, no,” Scarborough said. “Let’s let him talk that way.”

Brzezinski added, “This is just not necessary.”

Deutsch pushed back against the hosts. “Joe, but it’s important. That’s what a bully does. He makes fun of people’s physical imperfections.”

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Making it personal because it is personal? Why Deutsch would stoop so low as to attack the president’s appearance could stem from his personal relationship with Trump’s ex-wife, Marla Maples.

In January 2018, many outlets reported that the TV host and the ex-Mrs. Donald Trump were dating, noting that Deutsch had called Trump a “pathetic sniveling little president.”

Maples is the mother of Tiffany Trump.

And both mother and daughter are relatively low-key when it comes to public expressions or statements about Donald Trump.

Maples was married to Trump from 1993 to 1999.

Could this relationship have something to do with Deutsch’s taking whatever political disagreements he has with the president and turning them into something so personal?

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Or, regardless of that, shouldn’t someone with Donny Deutsch’s media profile perhaps behave more professionally?

This piece originally appeared in The Political Insider and is used by permission.

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