Reporters attempt to pose questions to Donald Trump during the press conference. “Tell you what, do you want to set up the meeting? Do you want to set up the meeting? Are they friends of yours?” the president asked the reporter about an influential bloc of lawmakers. He later suggested to an African American reporter who had asked about whether Trump had consulted with the Congressional Black Caucus about his plan for inner cities that she should organize the meeting.
Trump told an Orthodox Jewish reporter who asked him about an upsurge in antisemitic incidents that he had asked “a very insulting question”. At times, reporters couldn’t help but laugh at the president’s jabs despite their best instincts, simply because Trump’s comments were just that wacky and bizarre.Īt times, the interactions with reporters went beyond combative into a Twilight Zone. It was more comedian Henny Youngman than President William Henry Harrison as Trump needled reporters and engaged in a brand of insult comedy that was familiar from the campaign trail. The result was a spectacle that was sheer entertainment if not terribly presidential.
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Watch the press conference in full Guardian Often, Trump seemed to be in a time capsule, railing against Hillary Clinton and reusing entire paragraphs of rhetoric that he had once directed against her while campaigning for the White House. In fact, at times, it felt that the press conference focused more on the CNN correspondent Jim Acosta than on Alexander Acosta (Trump even made sure to check with the CNN correspondent that the two weren’t related) as the president prosecuted his case against CNN.
Trump responded by focusing on the real enemy – the media.
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The press conference, nominally called to announce the nomination of Alexander Acosta to be secretary of labor, represented the first opportunity for reporters to ask the president about a series of stories about his administration’s ties to Russia and Vladimir Putin. The president was confidently unhinged as he spent more than an hour berating the press and boasting without any real basis that “there has never been a presidency that’s done so much in such a short period of time”. Trump said he wasn’t “ranting and raving” during his press conference, and that was correct.
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