President Donald Trump cheered on Sebastian Gorka on Friday after the fired White House aide tried to start a fight with reporters at a Rose Garden news conference.
"Gorka Wins Big, no contest," Trump tweeted.
The presidential attaboy came hours after Gorka lost his cool at Trump's news conference announcing his reversal on adding a citizenship question to the census.
Gorka, who was invited to a White House social media summit, was spewing vitriol at "asshat" reporters, witnesses said.
He then faced off against Playboy scribe Brian Kerem, calling the reporter a "punk."
The stand-off nearly came to blows as fellow right-wing bloggers cheered on Gorka.
Gorka was fired from his anti-terrorism post in a purge of allies of former White House strategist Steve Bannon. He has been accused of being a member of a nationalist group that was allied to the Nazis in his native Hungary.
