MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski made an explosive allegation about the first lady on Friday

Melania Trump issued a furious condemnation of Mika Brzezinski on Friday afternoon after the Morning Joe co-host suggested she wanted out of her marriage to the president.

The first lady issued a statement to DailyMail.com, claiming Brzezinski does not know her, hours after an explosive interview with the MSNBC broadcaster appeared online.

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.

'I'm just telling you, Melania's got the worst job in the country and I don't think she wants do it a lot longer. I think she will do it for as long as she has to for her son, and that's it,' Brzezinski said.

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.

Family together: The first lady left with her husband and son for the Trump Bedminster golf course, where they are spending the holiday weekend

United front: All three Trumps walked out shortly before the statement from her office which attacked Brzezinski

Slur: The first lady's statement suggested she saw Mika Brzezinski's claim she wants out of her marriage as an insult and dismissed her as somebody she does not know

The short statement directly contradicted Mika's claim to know the first lady – and came despite Melania's first interview after her husband announced he was running for office being with Brzezinski.

Ironically she said then: 'We have thick skin, and we know that people will judge him and people will call names.'

She gave the interview inside her lavish and very golden New York City penthouse.

Brzezinski had commented during her television show with Scarborough that she's fond of Melania as she gave her version of events on the night that's at the center of their dispute with the president.

On New Year's Eve she said that she and Scarborough stopped by Trump's Palm Beach club at the president-elect's request.

They were shuffled into a bedroom, she said, where they spoke to Trump and his wife - 'who I like very much' - for 20 minutes or so.

Scarborough and Brzezinski were on good terms with the Trumps at that time.

A few weeks later, the president offered to officiate their wedding, a Vanity Fair profile that was published as part of their engagement announcement in early said.

He even offered them the White House or Mar-a-Lago as venues.

Scarborough told the magazine that he and Brzezinksi visited the White House in late January, just after Trump's inauguration, and the president told them over a lunch with his daughter and son-in-law that they should hold their nuptials at a his Palm Beach estate or his new home.

'That's when Jared interrupted and said, 'Hey, you know what? I've got my license. I could marry you,' ' Scarborough told Vanity Fair.

The television host says that Trump jumped in and told Kushner, ' 'Why would you marry them? They could have the President of the United States marry them.' '

She told the publication that she wasn't interested, though.

Don't know her: Melania Trump gave her first interview when her husband was running for president to Mika Brzezinski, in the Trump Tower penthouse she shared with the then-candidate. The couple now live in the White House

Prophetic: Melania Trump told Mika Brzezinski in early 2016: 'He will not hold it back if you’re a woman. you’re human, a woman or a man, it’s no different.'

Night in dispute: This is the New Year visit to Mar-a-Lago which Mike and Joe have described in notably different terms to the president

Was she bleeding: Trump claimed Brzezinski was 'bleeding from a facelift' - but the MSNBC host says that is a lie. She says she did have plastic surgery to 'tweak' her neck

'The White House that I grew up in was an amazing place. If it weren't Trump, it might be something to think about,' she said. 'The mental picture is just fascinating, but the reality is just . . . no. No, no, no, no, no.'

Trump has blasted the pair on Twitter for the past two days in tweets that hit them both viciously.

They fought back on Friday, calling him a liar and questioning his mental health, in response to his charge that they 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 in a Washington Post op-ed on Friday morning.

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.'

IT'S ON: Trump responded with outrage on Twitter more than an hour after they made their on-air claims

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.'

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

'DON'T KNOW' WOMAN WHO INTERVIEWED ME - HOW FIRST LADY AND MIKA WENT HEAD TO HEAD IN 2016 Melania Trump sat down with Mika Brzezinski in February 2016, as it became clear that her husband was almost certain to win the Republican primary. Perhaps ironically given Trump's 'facelift' attack on Brzezinski on Thursday and the claims of sexism which followed, the interview covered topics including her family and her husband's attitude towards women. Brzezinski asked Melania about how women were treated in the Trump Organization given her husband's comments about women during the campaign, specifically then Fox news host Megyn Kelly. 'They're treated equal,' said Melania. 'I see him in life. He treats women the same as men. he will tell you what’s in his heart, what he thinks. 'He will not hold it back if you’re a woman. you’re human, a woman or a man, it’s no different.' When Mika asked again about how vulgar Donald can be at times, Melania responded; 'Well do I agree all the time with him? No, I don’t, and I tell him that, I tell him my opinions, I tell him what I think. 'Sometimes he listens, sometimes he don’t. I follow the news from A-Z. I know what’s going on. I’m on the phone with my husband a few times a day.' Advertisement

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

They claimed on the program, 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.'

Trump confirmed with the tweet that he spent his morning stewing ahead of a scheduled call with the Turkish president and a White House visit from South Korea's Moon Jae-in.

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.

Kellyanne Conway, the president's counselor, served at the White House's sacrificial lamb, appearing on as ABC on Friday morning as Brzezinski and Scarborough went to battle with her boss on MSNBC.

'I endorse the president's right to fight back when he is being mercilessly attacked,' she told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos.

Clarifying her remarks, Conway said, 'I didn't say I endorsed his attacks; I never said that.

'Bottom line: I endorse his ability to connect on social media with Americans.'