On Monday's Morning Joe, MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski made a remarkable comeback performance after being away both Thursday and Friday of last week. Somehow, in her obsessive ranting centered around Trump’s retweet of a random Twitter user’s joke and another tweet that called Kim Jong Un “Rocket Man,” Brzezinski managed to fit in enough nonsense to fill at least three days of normal MSNBC content.

Just as with the media’s outrage over Trump’s tweet of a WWE wrestling meme showing him “beating up” CNN, Morning Joe began by overreacting to the retweet by mischaracterizing it as some kind of incitement to violence:

JOE SCARBOROUGH: It's a bad joke. When you have the president of the United States in that position talking about knocking over a woman, his former opponent. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Jeez, no, it’s bad on so many levels, I couldn't think on one way in which anybody would be overreaching or getting over their skis by saying that this is just abonable [sic], rude behavior that is beyond unpresidential. [...] You wrote in August of 2016, after then candidate Trump “suggested that one way to keep a conservative Supreme Court after Hillary Clinton got elected would be to assassinate her or federal judges” and Joe wrote in The Washington Post: “Trump and his supporters have been scrambling wildly all day to explain away the inexplicable, but they can stop wasting their time. The GOP nominee was clearly suggesting that some of the ‘Second Amendment people’ among his supporters could kill his Democratic opponent when she [sic], were she to be elected.”

The article that Mika read from was written by Joe at a time when the media’s propaganda campaign against Donald Trump was in full swing, and the truth value of its assertions was as dubious then as it is now. Even at the time, Politifact had a correspondent look at Trump’s statement about Hillary Clinton, the Supreme Court, and “Second Amendment people” in context and he meekly concluded that: “Trump’s rather elliptical words certainly left room for interpretation.” Of course, Trump did not say anything about assassinating or killing anybody, leaving this interpretation of Trump’s words in serious doubt, but this didn’t stop Mika and Joe from recycling their disingenuous interpretation of Trump’s comments as some sort of obvious truth about what he meant.

Brzezinski and regular MSNBC guest Donny Deutsch were not finished though, as, of course, they needed an explanation for Trump’s behavior. Unsurprisingly, they settled on mental illness:

DEUTSCH: And to have the cognitive disability to tweet him doing, hitting Hillary on the head with a golf ball, I mean, you know, you never let me diagnose, and I understand, on this show, but he's not a well guy. I mean, there's no other, you do the dance and, it is, there is the presidential Tourette’s of, that, we, nothing shocks us anymore. SCARBOROUGH: Yeah, David Ignatius- BRZEZINSKI: [interrupting] Well we should be shocked. This is wrong.

Just to be completely clear, Mika wasn’t saying that calling people mentally ill is wrong. She’s saying that tweeting a joke meme is wrong.

About an hour later, after kvetching about Trump’s tweets off-and-on for about an hour, Brzezinski brought the discussion back towards calling Trump mentally ill and dangerous:

No I’m, I’m actually gonna go on [sic] a limb and say that we have become desensitized to these tweets and that they are dangerous. And that if General Kelly wants to, like, work on saving this country from the frailties of this President's ability to process information and handle it like an adult and not lead us either marching into war or cause some sort of unrest, he needs to take his phone away from him.

In a brief moment of sanity, Deutsch suggested a more reasonable response to Trump’s tweets before backtracking and equivocating between Trump and Kim Jong Un:

Mika, it’s interesting you were desensitized. My reaction when I saw it was, for, I, I, I’m ashamed to say this because it's disgusting, I kind of giggled for a second. I said: ‘Oh, that's silly.’ [...] But that may be some good news to that. Take aside your, the madman with your hand on the button over in North Korea, but to most logical thinking people, [Trump and Kim] are dismissed at this point, they are just completely dismissed.

Mika couldn’t help herself but try to one-up Donny. She responded that her real concern was not the Communist dictator flouting international law by developing nuclear weapons and threatening to use them on multiple countries, but our own president using Twitter: “It's not the madman with his hand on the button, it’s his, it’s the madman with his finger on his Blackberry.”

Since Mika Brzezinski thinks that Kim Jong Un is less of a threat than Trump, perhaps she would enjoy a quick trip to North Korea so that the Dear Leader Himself can hear some of her mild criticisms of Him? Maybe some crowdfunding is in order? It would certainly make for some exciting TV.

The following is an extended transcript of the segments discussed above: