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The lowest moment of Donald Trump’s press conference
When he questioned April Ryan, it showed how he really thinks about people of color.
Updated by German Lopez@germanrlopez german.lopez@vox.com Feb 16, 2017, 5:32pm EST tweet
President Trump’s bizarre, rambling news conference hit an unrivaled low at the mention of an issue that’s continually defined the president down: race.
April Ryan, a black reporter with American Urban Radio Networks in Baltimore, asked Trump if he plans to meet and work with the Congressional Black Caucus — a perfectly legitimate question from a political reporter. His answer was not so legitimate.
Immediately, Trump treated Ryan as if she were personally aligned with the Congressional Black Caucus — even as she insisted that she’s “just a reporter.”
The moment is just one example of a critique Trump has faced repeatedly: He genuinely seems to view black people as a monolithic “other” — a group of people who work and behave in exactly similar ways. Not only does this seem to define an entire group of people down to a lowest common denominator, but it’s also simply dehumanizing to treat individuals as only part of a bigger group.
In the press conference, Trump was generally combative with reporters, patronizing reporters with bizarre comments about nuclear weapons (“You know what uranium is, right? It’s this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things.”) and calling reports about his ties to Russia “fake news.”
But the exchange with April Ryan is different. It fits a pattern he’s demonstrated multiple times since he launched his campaign for president. For example, he repeatedly referred to black people with a “the” before he mentioned them — saying “the African Americans” and “the blacks.” As linguist Lynne Murphy of the University of Sussex explained at Quartz, there is a purpose, albeit one Trump may not be totally aware of, to this:
“The” makes the group seem like it’s a large, uniform mass, rather than a diverse group of individuals. This is the key to “othering”: treating people from another group as less human than one’s own group. The Nazis did it when they talked about die Juden (“the Jews”). Homophobes do it when they talk about “the gays.” …
I doubt it’s an accident that Trump talks about ethnic groups in the same way that we talk about foreign governments and armies. If that “the” treats ethnic groups as some monolithic cabal, that might ring true with the conspiracy-theory mind-set that characterizes some of his core audience — the audience that Trump has been priming to see and make trouble at polling places “in certain areas.”
Trump also seems convinced that all black people live in inner cities, which, despite living in an inner city himself, he has constantly described as hellholes. In his pitch to black voters during the campaign, for instance, Trump said, “You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?”
And he argued, “Our inner cities are a disaster. You get shot walking to the store. They have no education, they have no jobs. I will do more for African Americans and Latinos than [Hillary Clinton] can ever do in 10 lifetimes. All she has done is talk to the African Americans and to the Latinos.”
What Trump is doing here is transcribing coded language — a dog whistle — in a literal manner. Time and time again, politicians have used “urban” and “inner city” as code for black people — and particularly when addressing black crime. Trump has simply mixed all of this code into a very literal interpretation, treating black people as a monolithic group living in cities riddled by crime and devoid of jobs and good schools.
While it is true that black Americans do disproportionately face economic hardship and higher crime as a result of centuries of systemic racism, pointing out such inequality is very different from saying that literally all black people face the exact same problems today.
Only by lumping all black people into this kind of monolithic group can one make sense of how Trump seems to think it’s okay to ask any random black person — even a reporter whose profession fundamentally demands some impartiality — to set up a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus.
Never mind that black people of course live in rural areas, suburbs, exurbs, and, yes, cities, just like everyone else, and they are obviously a diverse group of people with different life experiences and beliefs. In the world of Trump, black Americans can be lumped into a few descriptors — “inner city,” “urban” — and maybe even all work for the Congressional Black Caucus.
When he questioned April Ryan, it showed how he really thinks about people of color.
Updated by German Lopez@germanrlopez german.lopez@vox.com Feb 16, 2017, 5:32pm EST tweet
President Trump’s bizarre, rambling news conference hit an unrivaled low at the mention of an issue that’s continually defined the president down: race.
April Ryan, a black reporter with American Urban Radio Networks in Baltimore, asked Trump if he plans to meet and work with the Congressional Black Caucus — a perfectly legitimate question from a political reporter. His answer was not so legitimate.
Immediately, Trump treated Ryan as if she were personally aligned with the Congressional Black Caucus — even as she insisted that she’s “just a reporter.”
The moment is just one example of a critique Trump has faced repeatedly: He genuinely seems to view black people as a monolithic “other” — a group of people who work and behave in exactly similar ways. Not only does this seem to define an entire group of people down to a lowest common denominator, but it’s also simply dehumanizing to treat individuals as only part of a bigger group.
In the press conference, Trump was generally combative with reporters, patronizing reporters with bizarre comments about nuclear weapons (“You know what uranium is, right? It’s this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things.”) and calling reports about his ties to Russia “fake news.”
But the exchange with April Ryan is different. It fits a pattern he’s demonstrated multiple times since he launched his campaign for president. For example, he repeatedly referred to black people with a “the” before he mentioned them — saying “the African Americans” and “the blacks.” As linguist Lynne Murphy of the University of Sussex explained at Quartz, there is a purpose, albeit one Trump may not be totally aware of, to this:
“The” makes the group seem like it’s a large, uniform mass, rather than a diverse group of individuals. This is the key to “othering”: treating people from another group as less human than one’s own group. The Nazis did it when they talked about die Juden (“the Jews”). Homophobes do it when they talk about “the gays.” …
I doubt it’s an accident that Trump talks about ethnic groups in the same way that we talk about foreign governments and armies. If that “the” treats ethnic groups as some monolithic cabal, that might ring true with the conspiracy-theory mind-set that characterizes some of his core audience — the audience that Trump has been priming to see and make trouble at polling places “in certain areas.”
Trump also seems convinced that all black people live in inner cities, which, despite living in an inner city himself, he has constantly described as hellholes. In his pitch to black voters during the campaign, for instance, Trump said, “You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?”
And he argued, “Our inner cities are a disaster. You get shot walking to the store. They have no education, they have no jobs. I will do more for African Americans and Latinos than [Hillary Clinton] can ever do in 10 lifetimes. All she has done is talk to the African Americans and to the Latinos.”
What Trump is doing here is transcribing coded language — a dog whistle — in a literal manner. Time and time again, politicians have used “urban” and “inner city” as code for black people — and particularly when addressing black crime. Trump has simply mixed all of this code into a very literal interpretation, treating black people as a monolithic group living in cities riddled by crime and devoid of jobs and good schools.
While it is true that black Americans do disproportionately face economic hardship and higher crime as a result of centuries of systemic racism, pointing out such inequality is very different from saying that literally all black people face the exact same problems today.
Only by lumping all black people into this kind of monolithic group can one make sense of how Trump seems to think it’s okay to ask any random black person — even a reporter whose profession fundamentally demands some impartiality — to set up a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus.
Never mind that black people of course live in rural areas, suburbs, exurbs, and, yes, cities, just like everyone else, and they are obviously a diverse group of people with different life experiences and beliefs. In the world of Trump, black Americans can be lumped into a few descriptors — “inner city,” “urban” — and maybe even all work for the Congressional Black Caucus.
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Does Donald Trump Hate His New Job?
In his first extended press conference at the White House, the president railed against his critics and unspooled a series of bitter complaints.
Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
Have you ever had a job you loved, but one where you felt like you’d achieved everything you could? So you looked for a new job, went through a fairly grueling application process, if you do say so yourself, got the offer. Then you started the job, and you hated it. Worse, all the tricks you’d learned in your old job seemed to be pretty much useless in the new one. Did you ever have that experience?
The president of the United States can sympathize.
Donald Trump held the first extended press conference of his presidency on Thursday, and it was a stunning, disorienting experience. He mused about nuclear war, escalated his feud with the press, continued to dwell on the vote count in November, asked whether a black reporter was friends with the Congressional Black Caucus, and, almost as an afterthought, announced his selection for secretary of labor.
One of the few continuous themes through the otherwise disjointed performance was how little fun Trump is having. “As you know, our administration inherited many problems across government and across the economy,” Trump started in, continuing:
Much of the press conference proceeded as an airing of grievances, as Trump unspooled his frustrations—principally with the press, but also quite clearly with the federal judiciary, the Senate, the Democratic Party, the intelligence community, ISIS, and whoever else came to mind.
The litany of misery wasn’t always consistent. On the one hand, “Jobs have already started to surge,” he said. On the other, “Jobs are pouring out of the country.” Trump’s doomsaying on the economy cut directly against a triumphant tweet Thursday morning, in which he boasted, “Stock market hits new high with longest winning streak in decades. Great level of confidence and optimism - even before tax plan rollout!”
There’s been a boom in the cottage industry of diagnosing the president’s mental health from afar these days, the kind of thing that shouldn’t even be done by licensed professionals, much less amateurs. But it’s hard not to suspect that Trump isn’t having a lot of fun. He’s eyed the presidency for decades, and now that he’s in the White House, he seems deeply unhappy.
And who can blame him? The administration is plagued by leaks, from rival factions sniping at each other within the West Wing to intelligence officials speaking for stories that have damaged the administration and brought down National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. (Yes, Virginia, that was this week, even though it feels like forever ago.) Trump’s signature immigration executive order has been halted by federal courts. The storied wall isn’t under construction, and Mexico still won’t pay. Several Cabinet spots remain unfilled. There’s little progress on repealing and replacing Obamacare. He is beginning to learn just how slowly the wheels of action turn in politics. Meanwhile, congressional Republicans have slowly begun to agitate for investigations into various questionable Trump moves.
Trump tried to insist everything was fine. “I turn on the TV, open the newspapers and I see stories of chaos. Chaos,” he said. “Yet it is the exact opposite. This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine, despite the fact that I can’t get my cabinet approved.”
He argued that, in the face of the evidence, he had already accomplished much. “In each of these actions, I’m keeping my promises to the American people. These are campaign promises,” he said. “Some people are so surprised that we’re having strong borders.”
His mood and words suggested otherwise. “I’m not ranting and raving,” he ranted and raved. There are other signs of frustration. Rather than spend weekends at the White House, he has made a habit of going to Mar-a-Lago, the Florida resort where he apparently feels more comfortable. On Saturday, he’ll hold what his aides have described as a campaign rally, effectively starting his 2020 reelection race. These are excuses to leave Washington, but they also point to a president who misses the presidential campaign, when he was an underdog who kept beating expectations, and before he had to wrestle with the work of governing. That nostalgia manifested itself in a reverie about the election, and how no one thought he could win.
“We got 306 because people came out and voted like they’ve never seen before so that’s the way it goes,” he said. In fact, he got 304. “I guess it was the biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan,” Trump said, again falsely.
Trump is not alone in encountering some challenges in his early presidency. John Kennedy joked to Robert McNamara, “I'm not aware of any school for presidents.” After receiving his first classified briefing as president-elect, in 2008, Barack Obama quipped, “It’s good that there are bars on the windows here because if there weren’t, I might be jumping out.”
Nor is Trump alone in his battles with the press. “I'm kind of sitting back and enjoying Trump's war with the press,” Leon Panetta, the former White House chief of staff, CIA director, and defense secretary, told me recently. “I've worked in one way or another under nine presidents. There isn't one of them that had a loving relationship with the press. The nature of it is presidents hate bad stories.”
But Trump seems to take this unusually personally, perhaps because he has always recognized the power of the media to craft his image, and so masterfully manipulated it in building his business legend and his presidential campaign. Now he can’t seem to catch a break from the press.
What about the problems he identified—ISIS, the economy, and so on: Did Trump not expect them to be intractable, thorny problems? After all, his campaign was predicated on a dark vision of America coming apart at the seams. On stumps from Arizona to Appalachia to Akron, he warned of the evils of the establishment, the threats of ISIS, the struggles of the economy. “I alone can fix it,” he pledged. Did Trump not believe his own rhetoric, or did he imagine that these problems would melt away simply by virtue of his inauguration?
The early Trump presidency has been more chaotic than any other recent launch, even the hectic first days of the Clinton administration. It’s hard to know what to make of Trump’s jeremiad, which, beneath the bluster and fury, telegraphed a plaintive frustration that he had been unable to accomplish more, and perhaps moreover to convince the press and the public that he was accomplishing more. The catch-22 for Trump is this: As his ratings obsession shows, he desperately wants to be loved. Yet that desire for approval is leading Trump toward campaign events, to Mar-a-Lago, to searingly weird press conferences—all things that distract him from getting down to the real work of governing, without which his performance and approval are unlikely to rise.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/the-president-hates-his-new-job/517029/
In his first extended press conference at the White House, the president railed against his critics and unspooled a series of bitter complaints.
Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
Have you ever had a job you loved, but one where you felt like you’d achieved everything you could? So you looked for a new job, went through a fairly grueling application process, if you do say so yourself, got the offer. Then you started the job, and you hated it. Worse, all the tricks you’d learned in your old job seemed to be pretty much useless in the new one. Did you ever have that experience?
The president of the United States can sympathize.
Donald Trump held the first extended press conference of his presidency on Thursday, and it was a stunning, disorienting experience. He mused about nuclear war, escalated his feud with the press, continued to dwell on the vote count in November, asked whether a black reporter was friends with the Congressional Black Caucus, and, almost as an afterthought, announced his selection for secretary of labor.
One of the few continuous themes through the otherwise disjointed performance was how little fun Trump is having. “As you know, our administration inherited many problems across government and across the economy,” Trump started in, continuing:
Much of the press conference proceeded as an airing of grievances, as Trump unspooled his frustrations—principally with the press, but also quite clearly with the federal judiciary, the Senate, the Democratic Party, the intelligence community, ISIS, and whoever else came to mind.
The litany of misery wasn’t always consistent. On the one hand, “Jobs have already started to surge,” he said. On the other, “Jobs are pouring out of the country.” Trump’s doomsaying on the economy cut directly against a triumphant tweet Thursday morning, in which he boasted, “Stock market hits new high with longest winning streak in decades. Great level of confidence and optimism - even before tax plan rollout!”
There’s been a boom in the cottage industry of diagnosing the president’s mental health from afar these days, the kind of thing that shouldn’t even be done by licensed professionals, much less amateurs. But it’s hard not to suspect that Trump isn’t having a lot of fun. He’s eyed the presidency for decades, and now that he’s in the White House, he seems deeply unhappy.
And who can blame him? The administration is plagued by leaks, from rival factions sniping at each other within the West Wing to intelligence officials speaking for stories that have damaged the administration and brought down National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. (Yes, Virginia, that was this week, even though it feels like forever ago.) Trump’s signature immigration executive order has been halted by federal courts. The storied wall isn’t under construction, and Mexico still won’t pay. Several Cabinet spots remain unfilled. There’s little progress on repealing and replacing Obamacare. He is beginning to learn just how slowly the wheels of action turn in politics. Meanwhile, congressional Republicans have slowly begun to agitate for investigations into various questionable Trump moves.
Trump tried to insist everything was fine. “I turn on the TV, open the newspapers and I see stories of chaos. Chaos,” he said. “Yet it is the exact opposite. This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine, despite the fact that I can’t get my cabinet approved.”
He argued that, in the face of the evidence, he had already accomplished much. “In each of these actions, I’m keeping my promises to the American people. These are campaign promises,” he said. “Some people are so surprised that we’re having strong borders.”
His mood and words suggested otherwise. “I’m not ranting and raving,” he ranted and raved. There are other signs of frustration. Rather than spend weekends at the White House, he has made a habit of going to Mar-a-Lago, the Florida resort where he apparently feels more comfortable. On Saturday, he’ll hold what his aides have described as a campaign rally, effectively starting his 2020 reelection race. These are excuses to leave Washington, but they also point to a president who misses the presidential campaign, when he was an underdog who kept beating expectations, and before he had to wrestle with the work of governing. That nostalgia manifested itself in a reverie about the election, and how no one thought he could win.
“We got 306 because people came out and voted like they’ve never seen before so that’s the way it goes,” he said. In fact, he got 304. “I guess it was the biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan,” Trump said, again falsely.
Trump is not alone in encountering some challenges in his early presidency. John Kennedy joked to Robert McNamara, “I'm not aware of any school for presidents.” After receiving his first classified briefing as president-elect, in 2008, Barack Obama quipped, “It’s good that there are bars on the windows here because if there weren’t, I might be jumping out.”
Nor is Trump alone in his battles with the press. “I'm kind of sitting back and enjoying Trump's war with the press,” Leon Panetta, the former White House chief of staff, CIA director, and defense secretary, told me recently. “I've worked in one way or another under nine presidents. There isn't one of them that had a loving relationship with the press. The nature of it is presidents hate bad stories.”
But Trump seems to take this unusually personally, perhaps because he has always recognized the power of the media to craft his image, and so masterfully manipulated it in building his business legend and his presidential campaign. Now he can’t seem to catch a break from the press.
What about the problems he identified—ISIS, the economy, and so on: Did Trump not expect them to be intractable, thorny problems? After all, his campaign was predicated on a dark vision of America coming apart at the seams. On stumps from Arizona to Appalachia to Akron, he warned of the evils of the establishment, the threats of ISIS, the struggles of the economy. “I alone can fix it,” he pledged. Did Trump not believe his own rhetoric, or did he imagine that these problems would melt away simply by virtue of his inauguration?
The early Trump presidency has been more chaotic than any other recent launch, even the hectic first days of the Clinton administration. It’s hard to know what to make of Trump’s jeremiad, which, beneath the bluster and fury, telegraphed a plaintive frustration that he had been unable to accomplish more, and perhaps moreover to convince the press and the public that he was accomplishing more. The catch-22 for Trump is this: As his ratings obsession shows, he desperately wants to be loved. Yet that desire for approval is leading Trump toward campaign events, to Mar-a-Lago, to searingly weird press conferences—all things that distract him from getting down to the real work of governing, without which his performance and approval are unlikely to rise.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/the-president-hates-his-new-job/517029/
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18 WTF Moments From Trump's Unhinged Press Conference
"Russia is fake news," said the president of the United States, before musing about nuclear holocaust
Tessa Stuart
9 hours ago
Donald Trump took questions from the media on Thursday afternoon. The hastily called press conference came as a surprise to reporters, who would typically have had a briefing with White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer during that time. (According to reports, Trump walked into the Oval Office earlier that morning and said, "Let's do a press conference today."
The event was ostensibly meant to roll out his new labor secretary nominee, Alexander Acosta. (Previous pick Andy Puzder bowed out Wednesday after it became clear to Republican Senate leaders they did not have enough votes to confirm him.) But the event had little to do with Acosta, and quickly devolved into one of the most remarkably incoherent spectacles in recent memory.
Here are some of the most noteworthy moments.
That time he batted back reports of chaos in the West Wing
"I turn on TV, open the newspapers and I see stories of chaos – chaos – yet it is the exact opposite. This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine."
That time he confirmed the veracity of the leaks that lead to Michael Flynn's resignation
"The leaks are absolutely real. The news is fake because so much of the news is fake."
That time he couldn't say Flynn lied
"The thing is, he didn't tell our vice president properly, and then he said he didn't remember ... that just wasn't acceptable to me."
That time he characterized the rollout of his travel ban as "smooth"
"We had a very smooth rollout of the travel ban; we had a bad court."
That time he called the country of Russia fake news
"Russia is fake news. Russia – this is fake news put out by the media. The real news is the fact that people, probably from the Obama administration because they’re there, because we have our new people going in place, right now."
That time he denied knowledge of whether anyone from his team colluded with the Russian government during the campaign
"Nobody that I know of. How many times do I have to answer this question? Russia is a ruse. I have nothing to do with Russia. Haven't made a phone call to Russia in years."
That time he bragged about not being a bad person
"And I'll tell you what else I see. I see tone. You know the word 'tone'? The tone is such hatred. I'm really not a bad person, by the way. No, but the tone is such – I do get good ratings, you have to admit that – the tone is such hatred."
That time he compared the price of drugs to that of candy bars
"We've ordered the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice to coordinate on a plan to destroy criminal cartels coming into the United States with drugs. We're becoming a drug-infested nation. Drugs are becoming cheaper than candy bars."
That time he promised America and Russia would have a nuclear holocaust "like no other"
"We're a very powerful nuclear country and so are they. I have been briefed. And I can tell you, one thing about a briefing that we're allowed to say, because anybody that ever read the most basic book can say it, nuclear holocaust would be like no other. They're a very powerful nuclear country, and so are we."
That time he mused about attacking the Russian vessel lurking off the coast of Connecticut
"The greatest thing I could do [politically] is shoot that ship that's 30 miles offshore right out of the water."
That time he conceded his oft-repeated line about having the "biggest electoral margin since Ronald Reagan" is a lie
NBC reporter Peter Alexander: "You said today that you had the biggest electoral margin since Ronald Reagan – 304, 306 electoral votes. In fact, President Obama got 365 in 2008."
Trump: "Well, I'm talking about Republicans."
Alexander: "President Obama 333, George H.W. Bush 426 when he won. So why should Americans trust..."
Trump: "I was given that information, I was just given it. We had a very big margin."
Alexander: "I guess the question is: Why should Americans trust you when you accuse the information they receive as being fake, when you're providing information that is not accurate?"
Trump: "Well, I was given that information. I was, actually, I've seen that information around. But it was a very substantial victory. Do you agree with that?"
Alexander: "You're the president."
That time he explained uranium
"We had Hillary Clinton give Russia 20 percent of the uranium in our country. You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons, and other things. Like, lots of things are done with uranium, including some bad things. Nobody talks about that."
That time he offered a nuanced critique of Hillary Clinton's record as secretary of state
"Hillary Clinton did the reset, remember? With the stupid plastic button that made us all look like a bunch of jerks. Here, take a look. He looked at her like, 'What the hell is she doing?' With that cheap plastic button. Hillary Clinton. That was a reset. Remember it said 'Reset'? Now if I do that oh, I'm the bad guy."
That time he offered a nuanced assessment of his own performance at said press conference
"I'm not ranting and raving. I'm just telling you you're dishonest people."
That time he grew tired of all the tough questions
"I want to find a friendly reporter."
That time he was asked about Melania's role as first lady
"That is what I call a nice question. ... She – like others, like others that she's working with – feel very, very strongly about women's issues, women's difficulties."
That time he responded to a question – from a Jewish reporter – about the uptick in threats against Jewish organizations
"OK, sit down. ... So here's the story, folks. Number one, I am the least anti-Semitic person that you've ever seen in your entire life. Number two, racism – the least racist person."
That time he assumed a black reporter would be friends with black members of Congress
April Ryan: "Will you meet with the Congressional Black Caucus?"
Trump: "I would. You want to set up the meeting? Are they friends of yours?"
http://www.rollingstone.com/politic...from-trumps-unhinged-press-conference-w467518
"Russia is fake news," said the president of the United States, before musing about nuclear holocaust
Tessa Stuart
9 hours ago
Donald Trump took questions from the media on Thursday afternoon. The hastily called press conference came as a surprise to reporters, who would typically have had a briefing with White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer during that time. (According to reports, Trump walked into the Oval Office earlier that morning and said, "Let's do a press conference today."
The event was ostensibly meant to roll out his new labor secretary nominee, Alexander Acosta. (Previous pick Andy Puzder bowed out Wednesday after it became clear to Republican Senate leaders they did not have enough votes to confirm him.) But the event had little to do with Acosta, and quickly devolved into one of the most remarkably incoherent spectacles in recent memory.
Here are some of the most noteworthy moments.
That time he batted back reports of chaos in the West Wing
"I turn on TV, open the newspapers and I see stories of chaos – chaos – yet it is the exact opposite. This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine."
That time he confirmed the veracity of the leaks that lead to Michael Flynn's resignation
"The leaks are absolutely real. The news is fake because so much of the news is fake."
That time he couldn't say Flynn lied
"The thing is, he didn't tell our vice president properly, and then he said he didn't remember ... that just wasn't acceptable to me."
That time he characterized the rollout of his travel ban as "smooth"
"We had a very smooth rollout of the travel ban; we had a bad court."
That time he called the country of Russia fake news
"Russia is fake news. Russia – this is fake news put out by the media. The real news is the fact that people, probably from the Obama administration because they’re there, because we have our new people going in place, right now."
That time he denied knowledge of whether anyone from his team colluded with the Russian government during the campaign
"Nobody that I know of. How many times do I have to answer this question? Russia is a ruse. I have nothing to do with Russia. Haven't made a phone call to Russia in years."
That time he bragged about not being a bad person
"And I'll tell you what else I see. I see tone. You know the word 'tone'? The tone is such hatred. I'm really not a bad person, by the way. No, but the tone is such – I do get good ratings, you have to admit that – the tone is such hatred."
That time he compared the price of drugs to that of candy bars
"We've ordered the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice to coordinate on a plan to destroy criminal cartels coming into the United States with drugs. We're becoming a drug-infested nation. Drugs are becoming cheaper than candy bars."
That time he promised America and Russia would have a nuclear holocaust "like no other"
"We're a very powerful nuclear country and so are they. I have been briefed. And I can tell you, one thing about a briefing that we're allowed to say, because anybody that ever read the most basic book can say it, nuclear holocaust would be like no other. They're a very powerful nuclear country, and so are we."
That time he mused about attacking the Russian vessel lurking off the coast of Connecticut
"The greatest thing I could do [politically] is shoot that ship that's 30 miles offshore right out of the water."
That time he conceded his oft-repeated line about having the "biggest electoral margin since Ronald Reagan" is a lie
NBC reporter Peter Alexander: "You said today that you had the biggest electoral margin since Ronald Reagan – 304, 306 electoral votes. In fact, President Obama got 365 in 2008."
Trump: "Well, I'm talking about Republicans."
Alexander: "President Obama 333, George H.W. Bush 426 when he won. So why should Americans trust..."
Trump: "I was given that information, I was just given it. We had a very big margin."
Alexander: "I guess the question is: Why should Americans trust you when you accuse the information they receive as being fake, when you're providing information that is not accurate?"
Trump: "Well, I was given that information. I was, actually, I've seen that information around. But it was a very substantial victory. Do you agree with that?"
Alexander: "You're the president."
That time he explained uranium
"We had Hillary Clinton give Russia 20 percent of the uranium in our country. You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons, and other things. Like, lots of things are done with uranium, including some bad things. Nobody talks about that."
That time he offered a nuanced critique of Hillary Clinton's record as secretary of state
"Hillary Clinton did the reset, remember? With the stupid plastic button that made us all look like a bunch of jerks. Here, take a look. He looked at her like, 'What the hell is she doing?' With that cheap plastic button. Hillary Clinton. That was a reset. Remember it said 'Reset'? Now if I do that oh, I'm the bad guy."
That time he offered a nuanced assessment of his own performance at said press conference
"I'm not ranting and raving. I'm just telling you you're dishonest people."
That time he grew tired of all the tough questions
"I want to find a friendly reporter."
That time he was asked about Melania's role as first lady
"That is what I call a nice question. ... She – like others, like others that she's working with – feel very, very strongly about women's issues, women's difficulties."
That time he responded to a question – from a Jewish reporter – about the uptick in threats against Jewish organizations
"OK, sit down. ... So here's the story, folks. Number one, I am the least anti-Semitic person that you've ever seen in your entire life. Number two, racism – the least racist person."
That time he assumed a black reporter would be friends with black members of Congress
April Ryan: "Will you meet with the Congressional Black Caucus?"
Trump: "I would. You want to set up the meeting? Are they friends of yours?"
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President Trump follows up press conference with bizarre emai
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Feb 17th 2017 9:42AM
President Trump's press conference was a feisty and bizarre affair.
The New York Post went so far as to call it the wildest show on earth.
For an hour Trump sparred with the media, rejecting reports that his presidential campaign had been in contact with Russia and labeling the leaks real but the information fake.
Moments later, Trump's campaign sent an email to his supporters imploring them to fill out a Mainstream Media Accountability Survey to defend against the media's "hit jobs."
The 25 question survey asks things such as:
Did the media unfairly report on Trump's controversial travel ban?
Does the media properly fact-check before publishing their stories?
Was Trump's bombastic approach an effective way to, quote, "deliver our message straight to the people?"
Its unclear what the survey is actually meant to accomplish since the questions are framed in such a subjective light.
For example, one question asks: "Do you believe that if Republicans were obstructing Obama like Democrats are doing to President Trump, the mainstream media would attack Republicans?"
The survey does not mention the heavy media coverage of Republicans blockage of President Obama's Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.
AOL
Feb 17th 2017 9:42AM
President Trump's press conference was a feisty and bizarre affair.
The New York Post went so far as to call it the wildest show on earth.
For an hour Trump sparred with the media, rejecting reports that his presidential campaign had been in contact with Russia and labeling the leaks real but the information fake.
Moments later, Trump's campaign sent an email to his supporters imploring them to fill out a Mainstream Media Accountability Survey to defend against the media's "hit jobs."
The 25 question survey asks things such as:
Did the media unfairly report on Trump's controversial travel ban?
Does the media properly fact-check before publishing their stories?
Was Trump's bombastic approach an effective way to, quote, "deliver our message straight to the people?"
Its unclear what the survey is actually meant to accomplish since the questions are framed in such a subjective light.
For example, one question asks: "Do you believe that if Republicans were obstructing Obama like Democrats are doing to President Trump, the mainstream media would attack Republicans?"
The survey does not mention the heavy media coverage of Republicans blockage of President Obama's Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.
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Fox News’s Shepard Smith blasts Trump’s “fake news” attacks on CNN
Smith argued that, on Russia, “We’re not fools for asking these questions. And we demand to know the answer to this question.”
Updated by German Lopez@germanrlopez german.lopez@vox.com Feb 17, 2017, 10:00am EST
President Donald Trump’s rambling, off-the-cuff news conference on Thursday focused a lot on attacking the media, but it especially focused on attacking CNN, which Trump said was full of “anger and hatred” and “fake news” — largely because the cable news network had reported on Trump’s bizarre ties to Russia.
Shepard Smith, an anchor at rival media organization Fox News, was not having it. In a brief message to the president, Smith blasted Trump for his treatment of the media and specifically CNN reporters:
For Trump, this moment has to sting a bit. Although he has criticized CNN, he has said that Fox News is friendly and “very nice” to him. For a Fox News anchor to go out of his way to slam Trump’s reactions to basic questions, then, might carry more weight for the president.
