Looks like Trump was right. Good for him. Yet he also was wrong, in the sense that he unfairly attempted to use Scarborough and Brzezinski's relationship status to discredit their political commentary.

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Recall that Scarborough and Brzezinski, after maintaining a friendly rapport with Trump early in the primary season, turned sharply critical when Trump failed during a memorable interview on CNN to disavow the support of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, in February 2016. Though Trump rejected Duke later, Scarborough called the billionaire's provably false claim that he did not “know anything about David Duke” “disqualifying.”

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By the time he tweeted that Scarborough and Brzezinski were dating, Trump had stopped appearing on “Morning Joe” and had mounted a Twitter campaign to undercut their coverage of him. Trump's posts about Brzezinski were particularly nasty.

Trump's argument wasn't very subtle: Brzezinski is “crazy,” “neurotic” and “very dumb.” She's probably only on TV because she is Scarborough's “long-time girlfriend.” So, no one should listen to what she says.

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Being right about the existence of a romance between Scarborough and Brzezinski does not make the way Trump discussed it any less wrong. Yet the president consistently values correctness over propriety.

At a September campaign rally in Colorado Springs, for example, Trump told his crowd that “a bomb went off in New York” before the cause of an explosion in Chelsea had been determined. Political commentators hammered him for making an uninformed declaration, but he ended up being right about the bomb. In his mind, that was all that mattered.

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“I was criticized for calling it correctly,” Trump said on Fox News, two days after the bombing. “What I said was exactly correct. I should be a newscaster because I called it before the news.”

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At another rally, about a month into his presidency, Trump seemed to refer to a phantom terrorism event when he said “look at what's happening last night in Sweden.” Nothing had happened in Sweden.

“But the following day, two days later, they had a massive riot in Sweden — exactly what I was talking about,” Trump boasted in a March interview with Time magazine. “I was right about that.”