MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski reached the highest ratings in their show's history Friday when they took to air to hit back at President Donald Trump's vicious Twitter attacks against them.

The Nielsen company said Wednesday that 1.66 million people watched the MSNBC morning show the day after Trump's twitter barrage against the cable news morning show hosts.

That narrowly beat the show's previous record, which came the day after Trump was elected last year. Trump, in denouncing the show last week, wrote that Brzezinski was 'bleeding badly from a facelift' when he saw them around the New Year.

MSNBC hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski hit back at President Donald Trump Friday, calling him a liar and questioning his mental health during their highest rated show ever

Donald Trump, pictured with wife Melania, unleashed a fury of tweets attacking Mika and Joe

Friday's 'Morning Joe' proved more popular than Trump's favorite morning show, 'Fox & Friends.'

Even Trump tweeted that he watched 'Morning Joe' on Friday.

So far this year, 'Morning Joe' is averaging 896,000 viewers, typically running second behind Fox News Channel's morning show. Scarborough and Brzezinski delayed a holiday vacation to address Trump's tweets on Friday.

Even the President himself made sure to tune into Friday's show which was focused on him

Willie Geist, one of the show's co-anchors called out the fact that there may be more viewers than usual Friday morning.

'I suspect we do have some new viewers this morning, so I'l just say what anyone who's watched even five minutes of this show over the last decade already knows: Mika's smart, she's strong, she makes people in power uncomfortable and she fears absolutely no one,' Geist said.

The couple wrote an op-ed piece for the Washington Post that was posted Friday morning before their show: '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.'

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.'

Having postponed a Fourth of July holiday by a day, the pair, who revealed their engagement last month, stopped by their show to rebut Trump in person on Friday morning.

Brzezinski says they met privately with Trump and his wife in a bedroom and were led out through the party. 'Talk about facelifts - woah, Palm Beach!' she said.

The 50-year-old television host proudly talked about her chin tuck and declared: 'It looks awesome.'

They also claimed on the show, and in the Post, that senior Trump officials begged them to call the president and apologize for their coverage or have a nasty piece on them run in a tabloid that's owned and operated by the president's friend.

Trump responded with outrage on Twitter more than an hour after they made the on-air claim.

'Watched low rated @Morning Joe for first time in long time. FAKE NEWS. He called me to stop a National Enquirer article. I said no! Bad show.'

Having postponed a Fourth of July holiday by a day, the pair, who revealed their engagement last month, stopped by their show to rebut Trump in person on Friday morning

Brzezinski proudly talked about her chin tuck and declared: 'It looks awesome' as 1.66m viewers looked on

Scarborough tweeted back at him: 'Yet another lie. I have texts from your top aides and phone records. Also, those records show I haven't spoken with you in many months.'

'Why do you keep lying about things that are so easily disproven? What is wrong with you?' he asked in a follow-up.

The MSNBC host previously revealed, in the opening minutes of he and Brzezinski's on-camera appearance, that he has friends in the White House telling him they have grown increasingly concerned about the president's erratic behavior.

'We're OK. The country's not,' he said.

The Morning Joe hosts assessed that Trump that has a 'fixation' with women, and he insults Brzezinski - with whom he has 'a disturbing obsession' - more ferociously than Scarborough.

'He appears to have a fragile, impetuous child-like ego that we've seen over and over again, especially with women. It's like he can't take it,' Brzezinski stated.

Scarborough tweeted back at him, furthering the feud that as on public display

The MSNBC host previously revealed, in the opening minutes of he and Brzezinski's on-camera appearance, that he has friends in the White House telling him they have grown increasingly concerned about the president's erratic behavior

President Trump tore into the MSNBC hosts in Thursday morning tweets for trash talking him on their show - prompting a huge backlash, with his own party speaking out against him.

'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!'

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.

Revealed: CNN's senior media correspondent Brian Stelter posted this picture of the MSNBC Morning Joe host from New Year

Brzezinski suggested that Senate Republicans should find it easier than working with President Trump. 'Who undermines them, slams them, says bad things about them. Just for fun. To bully them, throw them under the bus, make up new plans, have Rose Garden ceremonies, humiliate them. I mean, could it be worse?' she said.

'Why don't you work with Democrats,' she insisted.

Scarborough then added that Trump 'doesn't understand any of the policy.'

Brzezinski was tossing to MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle, who hosts a show in the 9 am hour on the network last Thursday, when Trump tweeted about her 'face lift'

'No clue,' Brzezinski said.

Scarborough suggested that Trump simply wanted a health care bill that he could pass, and didn't care about any of the details.

'It doesn't line up with anything he promised on the campaign trail and he just doesn't understand the basic concepts,' the former GOP House member added.

Scarborough used the word 'mean' to describe the bill, a word that Trump reportedly assigned to the House's version of the Obamacare repeal.

Brzezinski was alone on air when Trump sent the tweet about her 'face lift'

Brzezinski again brought up the celebration Trump hosted in the Rose Garden when a bill had passed only in the House was months to years away from receiving the president's signature.

'There was a Rose Garden ceremony where the president made everybody look like fools,' she said. 'A proven liar and they went to the White House to be made to look like fools. It's amazing.'

Her counterpart then pointed out that on health care there were real opportunities for conservatives, as both Medicaid and Obamacare needed to be fixed, and free market principles could be used.

'That would take real leadership,' Brzezinski said.

However, the ex-congressman noted, his party was focused on giving tax cuts to its donors.

'At a time when the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer at a faster rate than ever before in our nation's history this is the point where Republicans say, 'Hey, we've got a great idea, we're going to cut a trillion dollars of benefits from the poorest Americans and we're going to give it to the wealthiest Americans,'' 'Scarborough said.

Brzezinski piled on: 'And this was the president who was going to change Washington.'

'What a populist,' Scarborough added.

He then looked directly into the camera.