Conway said 'I need to take a shower' after speaking for Trump, MSNBC says

The hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" said Monday that White House counselor Kellyanne Conway complained extensively about President Donald Trump in private conversations with them before he was elected.

Mika Brzezinski said during Monday's broadcast that she heard Conway denounce the candidate in private after promoting him on television.

"She would get off the air, the camera would be turned off, the microphone would be taken off, and she would say 'Blech, I need to take a shower,' because she disliked her candidate so much," Brzezinski said of Conway.

Joe Scarborough, Brzezinski's co-host and fiancé, echoed the statements, saying that Conway said after being interviewed that she had only taken the job for money and that she would soon be done defending Trump.

" 'But first I have to take a shower, because it feels so dirty to be saying what I'm saying,' " Brzezinski added, mocking what the hosts said was Conway's attitude at the time. "I guess she's just used to it now."

A White House spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Conway began the 2016 election working for a super PAC that supported Sen. Ted Cruz's presidential campaign, but she joined the Trump campaign after Cruz dropped out of the race. She became Trump's campaign manager in August, appearing frequently on television in support of him.

"Your hosts look pained when they interview her because they know they're just doing politics porn," Brzezinski said, addressing the rival network.

Conway has been a frequent target of media critics since she tried to justify the White House's reports about the size of Trump's inauguration crowd by calling them "alternative facts" in January. A clip of Anderson Cooper, the CNN anchor, rolling his eyes at her during an interview drew attention last week, and Conway later called the reaction "possibly sexist," and saying that it was typical of an anti-Trump bias in the media.

The hosts of "Morning Joe," fixtures of the same Washington punditry scene that Conway has frequented since the 1990s, have in the past enjoyed a congenial relationship with Trump, who reportedly offered to officiate their wedding. But they have criticized him more harshly in recent months, and Trump has said in interviews that he has stopped watching the network.