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Donnie Dirtbag Gets Softball Question--Responds with Yet Another Tantrum

Mycroft said:
Trump is right.

This reporter was trying to raise fears. Trump tried over and over to remain hopeful without us knowing if the drug will work or not. "We'll see what happens."

But the reporter wouldn't let it go. That's why Trump told him he was a terrible reporter.
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You don't think the pandemic has raised fears all by itself?
 
Stealers Wheel said:
No, listen carefully. The reporter asked "What do you say to Americans who are scared?"

Trump's response is "I say you're a terrible reporter."

That is what Trump says to Americans who are scared. Peter Acosta is a terrible reporter.

If that is an example of presidential leadership, the GOP has no chance in November.
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I dislike the way Trump presents himself as much as I dislike when only part of the reporter statement is posted. I don't disagree that Trump gave a terrible response to the reporter. Why didn't you post the complete dialog from the reporter that lead up to Trump's bad answer?
 
Tanngrisnir said:
Easily explained: he's a complete candy-ass *****, transparently unfit for the office, who can't even recognize a softball when it's pitched to him so that he could saying something inspiring.

Sad that we have such an easily triggered little bitch as POTUS.
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It was another bait question and Trump handled it perfectly.
 
apdst said:
It was another bait question and Trump handled it perfectly.
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Pence was asked the same question a little while later............
 
Stealers Wheel said:
No, listen carefully. The reporter asked "What do you say to Americans who are scared?"

Trump's response is "I say you're a terrible reporter."

That is what Trump says to Americans who are scared. Peter Acosta is a terrible reporter.

If that is an example of presidential leadership, the GOP has no chance in November.
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Not only are you dishonestly taking stuff out of context and spinning it into an attack on Trump, you mangled the name of the dirtbag reporter. (Who the hell is "Peter Acosta"?)

LOL!!
 
j brown's body said:
Pandemic, stock market crash, mass unemployment. Just business as usual.
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no, no, no
you don't get it
the reporters are supposed to spin it so those catastrophes appear to be fortunate events
NOT make them sound like the tragedies that they actually are
make the joseph goebbels school of journalism proud, you know
 
Tanngrisnir said:
His parents were terrible people.

His father and grandfather were mobbed up, and made their money by cons and fraud.
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and the dumb-ass is carrying on the family tradition very well
 
mike2810 said:
I dislike the way Trump presents himself as much as I dislike when only part of the reporter statement is posted. I don't disagree that Trump gave a terrible response to the reporter. Why didn't you post the complete dialog from the reporter that lead up to Trump's bad answer?
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First, the entire dialogue is available to anyone who wishes to hear it in the link on the OP.

You say Trump gave a bad answer. But somehow the 'complete dialogue' changes it? It changes nothing. The context doesn't change. The meaning of the question doesn't change. The pissy little answer doesn't change.

Trump is incapable of empathy. He doesn't give a tinker's damn about Americans who are afraid. That's why he answered the way he did.
 
Mycroft said:
Not only are you dishonestly taking stuff out of context and spinning it into an attack on Trump, you mangled the name of the dirtbag reporter. (Who the hell is "Peter Acosta"?)

LOL!!
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The context? Explain how Trump was right in his answer. Tell us why Trump's answer was appropriate.

And you LOL because I got the name wrong? Simple minds are so easily amused. I bet I could keep you busy for hours with just a laser pointer.
 
Stealers Wheel said:
The context? Explain how Trump was right in his answer. Tell us why Trump's answer was appropriate.

~snipped the trolling/flaming/baiting (don't test my limits, though)~
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Watch and listen to the entire exchange and you'll see why Trump came to the point of just slapping that guy upside the head. The guy deserved it.
 
Mycroft said:
Watch and listen to the entire exchange and you'll see why Trump came to the point of just slapping that guy upside the head. The guy deserved it.
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Is he the president or a F***ing street thug?

The thin-skinned one looked so incredibly petty.

~snipped the trolling/flaming/baiting (don't test my limits, though)~
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Oooh! Gee, I wonder might happen if I did test your limits? You might LOL again? I better be careful. Wouldn't want you to lose it in front of God and everyone. I understand you can be downright crotchety when someone pushes the right buttons.
 
apdst said:
It was another bait question and Trump handled it perfectly.
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How was it a 'bait' question?

Please be very specific and refrain from repeating talking points.

Sorry that you can't emotionally accept that twump pooped himself.
 
These Trump press conferences are meant to be a platform for a president who is out of his depth with the responsibilities of his job trying to look like he knows what he is doing. He is thin-skinned because he is a narcissist, unable to take criticism. The man is manifestly disordered and his election to such high office has exposed a weakness in the American system of democracy.
 
justabubba said:
that reporter was not making himself the story - tRump did that by using the reporter as a foil for his tantrum

hell, the guy tossed the president a softball question - at which tRump swung and missed (to no surprise of anyone)
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Peter Alexander claimed it was a "softball question" so you're simply repeating his own characterization.
It wasn't a softball question.
You can look it up.
 
SoCal said:
When Americans or anyone feel threatened, many start grasping at straws. So it's understandable why many Americans who're unaware of his pathological lying, feel assured by Don'n happy talk. And in many cases, polling results are determined by who's doing the polling;

"...An NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist survey published Tuesday [17th] showed that more Americans disapprove of the way Trump is handling the coronavirus than those who approve, 49 percent to 44 percent, and few trust in the information they hear from the president about COVID-19..."

And this change in his approval; ..."As a deepening public health crisis rocks the nation, a new ABC News/Ipsos poll released Friday shows a far different portrait of a country than from only one week ago..." So you can see how volatile and quickly Americans can change their minds.

Only one week ago, he had only a 43 percent approval and 54 percent disapproval. I am disappointed in the Americans who can look up to such an evil man to take care of them. I of course hope it never happens, but if this turns out to be as deadly as the 1918 pandemic and Americans start dying by the thousands, we'll see how quickly his approval changes...
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I guess not everyone sees things the way you do.
Are they evil too?
Or are you evil because you don't see things they way they do?
 
bubbabgone said:
I guess not everyone sees things the way you do.
Are they evil too?
Or are you evil because you don't see things they way they do?
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Clearly, it's a mutually exclusive proposition.

Or it could be that everyone is evil, and this scourge is divine retribution. Kinda like polio, but not as deadly or debilitating. I clearly remember the girl living in our neighborhood contracting polio, and while I was at a loss to determine exactly where the evil resided that was responsible for her suffering, surely it was there somewhere. I was just too young to fully appreciate Eisenhauer's complicity.
 
bubbabgone said:
Peter Alexander claimed it was a "softball question" so you're simply repeating his own characterization.
It wasn't a softball question.
You can look it up.
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Yet another example that if Dirtbag Donnie put a bowl of dog**** in front of one his cultists and told him it was ice cream, cultist would gobble it up and call it dee-lissshusssss.
 
humbolt said:
Clearly, it's a mutually exclusive proposition.

Or it could be that everyone is evil, and this scourge is divine retribution. Kinda like polio, but not as deadly or debilitating. I clearly remember the girl living in our neighborhood contracting polio, and while I was at a loss to determine exactly where the evil resided that was responsible for her suffering, surely it was there somewhere. I was just too young to fully appreciate Eisenhauer's complicity.
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It's rare here to find someone who identifies as conservative doing irony well, but here you are. So
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to you, sir.
 
Got to ask why some of the "progressive" left have to result to name calling. Are they not capable of debating or discussing a topic without it?
 
It wasn't a bait question at all. It was an opportunity for Trump to assure the public! He acted nasty instead. Pence did much better with the same question later.

It's trying for me is seeing Trump on the tube every morning. I want to know what they are doing. But, I can't believe much of what he says. I have found it interesting to watch the body language of Pence and the response team, while Trump is spewing out. Did everyone see the doctor cover his face the other day at what Trump was saying?
 
bubbabgone said:
Peter Alexander claimed it was a "softball question" so you're simply repeating his own characterization.
It wasn't a softball question.
You can look it up.
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If Chris Wallace of FOX News had asked Trump "What do you say to people who are scared?" it would be a softball question, but because it was asked by Peter Alexander of NBC, it was a GOTCHA! question.

The truth is, Trump is incapable of empathy, therefore the question infuriated him, simple as that.
 
bubbabgone said:
Peter Alexander claimed it was a "softball question" so you're simply repeating his own characterization.
It wasn't a softball question.
You can look it up.
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Asserting that it actually wasn't a softball question is the most twumpian possible reply: outright rejection of objective reality to defend the sniveling coward who's currently defaming the White House by his mere presence.
 
Stealers Wheel said:
If Chris Wallace of FOX News had asked Trump "What do you say to people who are scared?" it would be a softball question, but because it was asked by Peter Alexander of NBC, it was a GOTCHA! question.

The truth is, Trump is incapable of empathy, therefore the question infuriated him, simple as that.
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If that's all there was it wouldn't have been an issue.
But ... does this sound like softballs to you and were you aware there was more?

“Is it possible that your impulse to put a positive spin on things is may be giving Americans a false sense of hope and misrepresenting preparedness right now?”
“What do you say Americans who are scared, though? Nearly 200 dead, 14,000 who are sick, millions, as you witnessed, who are scared right now.
“What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now who are scared?”
 
bubbabgone said:
Peter Alexander claimed it was a "softball question" so you're simply repeating his own characterization.
It wasn't a softball question.
You can look it up.
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my observation has already been posted in this thread (first page) explaining why that question by the reporter should be found a softball question
and i was as puzzled by tRump's stupid response as alexander was, in real time, while watching the presidential stupidity unfold live for all to see
 
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