JAKE TAPPER(HOST): It might officially be energy week at the White House, but the main fuel being provided as to anyone who has concerns about President Trump's temperament and those who see him as unpresidential and even misogynistic. The president this morning, apparently unhappy with criticisms made about him on the MSNBC show Morning Joe. Lashed out on Twitter quote "I heard poorly rated Morning Joe speaking badly about me, don't watch anymore. Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika along with Psycho Joe came to Mar-a-Lago three nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!” A reminder, this is the president of the United States. This of course, just a few days after he talked about the need unite the country, to heal. And after First Daughter Ivanka Trump bemoaned how nasty Washington and politics are.

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TAPPER: The White House today said that president Trump was merely punching back, fighting fire with fire since the hosts of Morning Joe have attacked President Trump. And this is indeed how President Trump sees that it. That criticism from the media or anyone needs to be fought back. It's been very clear ever since the Trump campaign banned reporters from the Des Moines Register back in 2015, because Mr. Trump didn't like some of the editorials the newspaper wrote that he has a problem with criticism. This president, who first came to political prominence, by the way, by questioning whether the first African-American president was born in Africa and thus ineligible for president, he wasn't. He's made it clear that he'll do everything he can to undermine anyone seeking to hold him accountable whether it's the FBI director or the media. Since Monday, the president on Twitter has attacked CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, The New York Times and The Washington Post. They are all fake news, he tweeted. That's just since Monday. Now the White House today complained that we in the media focus too much on his tweets, suggesting that we cover them disproportionately, citing a conservative organization study of how many minutes have been spent covering different topics.

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TAPPER: Now viewers of this show know that we focus quite a bit on policy. We, of course, cannot ignore wild statements being made by the president of the United States. So as long as [Deputy press secretary] Sarah Huckabee Sanders was talking about numbers, we thought we'd look at the president's tweets since he became president. Now this is an unscientific analysis, but in our analysis of the 770 tweets from the president's personal account since his inauguration, we found the plurality of them were general political comments or arguments and many of them that were benign presidential tweets about meetings or the like. Or exaltations to make America Great Again, but in terms of specific issues, specific issues, roughly 85 tweets were attacks or complaints about the press. This compares with about 67 tweets specifically about jobs, using the word “Jobs.” And roughly 27 tweets about veterans or the military. Those are the numbers in our analysis. Our best good faith effort to categorize all of the president's tweets. About his tweets this morning, the White House today said the personal attack on the appearance of Mika Brzezinski is exactly why he's a president.