President Donald Trump asked his staff for feedback on his controversial tweets about MSNBC Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, a source claims.

Trump viciously tore into the Morning Joe hosts on Thursday for trash talking him on their show, but his tweets sparked huge backlash after he referred to them as 'low I.Q. Crazy Mika' and 'Psycho Joe'.

A White House source told the New York Post that Trump asked his staffers for feedback soon after.

'He said to everyone, "I know it wasn't presidential, but what did you think?"' the source said.

'He wanted to get people's reactions and sense what the fallout might be.'

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The tweet appeared to be in reaction to the hosts calling him 'a proven liar', and came after a series of clashes between him and Scarborough and Brzezinski, to whom he had previously been close.

'I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came...to Mar-a-Lago 3 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!' Trump tweeted.

The twitter rant appeared to be prompted by the content of Thursday's Morning Joe.

During the first few minutes of Thursday's show, Scarborough had called out Trump for being a fake populist, and pointed a finger at Senate Republicans saying their health care bill gave tax cuts to their donors at the expense of robbing the poor.

Brzezinksi chimed in and said the president, 'a proven liar,' made House Republicans 'look like fools,' by making them celebrate their bill's passage in a Rose Garden ceremony last month.

She also made fun of the size of his hands, calling them 'teensy!' with glee.

Trump tore into the hosts on Thursday for trash talking him on their show, but his tweets sparked huge backlash after he referred to them as 'low I.Q. Crazy Mika' and 'Psycho Joe'

A White House source said that Trump asked his staffers for feedback soon after he posted the original tweets on Thursday

Since then, Trump has blasted the TV hosts again on Friday, saying on Twitter that he watched the 'low rated' show 'for the first time in long time'. He also called the show 'FAKE NEWS.'

The TV hosts wrote a column for the Washington Post on Friday morning calling Trump a liar and questioning his mental health, after their former friend claimed the duo relentlessly pursued him at Palm Beach property while Mika was recovering from a facelift.

'We are both certain that the man is not mentally equipped to continue watching our show, 'Morning Joe,' they said.

According to their account in the Post, Trump invited them to Mar-a-Lago for dinner. When Brzezinski didn't show, he asked them back the next night on, New Year's Eve.

They went - but did not attend the party he was having that night, they maintained.

'Mr. Trump also claims that Mika was 'bleeding badly from a face-lift.' That is also a lie,' the op-ed says. 'Putting aside Mr. Trump's never-ending obsession with women's blood, Mika and her face were perfectly intact, as pictures from that night reveal.'

Mika Brzezinski waits for an elevator in the lobby at Trump Tower in November. Brzezinski was at the president-elect's residence and office that day to meet with his daughter, Ivanka

While Brzezinski 'never had a face-lift' they admit that she did 'have a little skin under her chin tweaked, but this was hardly a state secret.'

Brzezinski also came under fire from First Lady Melania Trump on Friday after the host suggested she wanted out of her marriage to the president.

Brzezinski had put some oomph behind unsubstantiated rumors that Melania wants out of her marriage during an interview with InStyle that appeared on the magazine's website.

'I know Melania. I haven't talked to her in months, but if my gut is right, I don't think she's going to put up with it much longer,' Brzezinski said. 'I know nothing. That's just my instinct and I go with my gut and my gut's always right.'

Then, in a startling suggestion she claimed her 'gut' was telling her that the first lady was only doing 'the worst job in the country' for the sake of her young son, Barron.

Later in the day the first lady's office hit back – hard – issuing a statement for Mrs. Trump.

'It is sad when people try to further their own agenda by commenting on me and my family, especially when they don't know me,' she said.