Trump Press Conference

Here Are Some Of The Puzzling Moments From Trump's First Solo News Conference

... Still, months after the results were final, he still routinely brings up and misstates the size of his win in the electoral college. In this exchange, a reporter points out that former President Obama won more electoral votes than Trump (Obama had 332 in 2012; Trump had 302). Oh, and George H. W. Bush had 426 electoral votes when he beat Michael Dukakis in 1988. The reporter asks why the American public should trust Trump when he provides inaccurate information. His answer: “I don’t know. I was given that information. I was given — I actually, I’ve seen that information around. But it was a very substantial victory, do you agree with that?”. Russia is fake news. Trump called the news media, in general, “fake” about 20 times during the course of his 90-minute presser. He also dodged the question about whether his campaign staff had connections to Russia, referring to the story as a ...

Watch President Donald Trump’s Most Unhinged Press Conference To Date

... press secretary Sean Spicer’s earlier statements — that Flynn had not done anything illegal, but rather that Trump was simply uncomfortable with “the way that information was given” to Vice President Mike Pence by Flynn. He then proceeded to repeatedly call the Russia story “ fake news ,” and things began to go off the rails. As for the recent leaks relating to Russia , Trump said that the leaks are real, but that “the news is fake.” When a reporter fact-checked him on his claim about his electoral college victory, Trump said, “I don’t know, I was given that information.” Trump tried to explain uranium, talked at length about his debates with Hillary Clinton and affected a silly voice while gifting us with this incredible quote. “Tomorrow, they will say, “Donald Trump rants and raves at the press.” I’m not ranting and raving. I’m just telling you. You know, you’re dishonest people. But — ...

Trump Voters, Pundits & Twitter Gauge Memorable Trump Press Conference

... the new administration. "He's doing what we want," said Busby. "He'll call people out. That may not be PC but I think it's tiem we don't have political correctness.". While Trump supporters were largely encouraged by his fiery performance, others found it disturbing. On Twitter, North Texans called it everything from "delusional," to "unhinged" to "out of control.". Assistant SMU public affairs professor Sam Martin said Trump's strategy of playing to his base may be part of a larger plan to keep them motivated and passionate to help push through his agenda. "Most presidents try to unify," she said. "In doing that unification thing [Obama White House], it also became very hard to enact the agenda. Hope doesn't legislate very well.". But she stressed Trump's chaotic approach may eventually prove a difficult way to govern, especially successfully, given that the very act of governance is far different than rallying a crowd, or even running a private company. "I'm not sure he knows how to deal with an organization that has an intractable structure," she said. ...

Trump, In Unprecedented Fashion, Airs Grievances In An Epic 77-minute Press Conference

... of all the pressure he’s got with this fake story.’ OK?”. Foto: Donald Trump.source Mark Wilson/Getty Images. Later, in an unrelated pair of separately jaw-dropping moments that happened minutes apart, Trump shut down a question from Jewish reporter asking about a rise in anti-Semitism before asking a prominent black reporter to help him set up a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus, asking if she was friends with its members. Trump saved his biggest complaints about his coverage for CNN, saying the network covered him with “hatred” and that anchor Don Lemon – not among the attendees – spewed “venom” when discussing the president on air. In an exchange with CNN’s Jim Acosta, Trump said he no longer called the network “fake news” – instead calling it “very fake news.”. Many, including Acosta, laughed. And amid his lengthy response to the controversies at hand, Trump said he was having a blast. “I’m actually having a ...

Ten Takeaways From President Trump’s Surreal And Insane Press Conference

... he is no longer running against Hillary Clinton and that she has no power at all to stop him from doing whatever he wants. He once again created the grossly inaccurate impression that Hillary had been given questions to their debates (it was for Democratic town hall events), seemingly because he is still smarting from having lost to her in those contests. He also laughably claimed that if he ever got questions for a debate, he would get the death penalty from the media. But according to Megyn Kelly’s book he may have been leaked the critical first question to the very vital first GOP debate and that has not gotten nearly the coverage that it deserves. #6 — It probably won’t get much attention, but in a side comment during his confrontation with a CNN reporter, Trump strongly implied that he had gotten that network’s boss, Jeff Zucker, a family friend, his job ...

Donald Trump’s Combative, Grievance-filled News Conference, Annotated

... it would be a positive thing, not a negative thing. QUESTION: Is tax reform on the line. QUESTION: Mr. President? Mr. President? Mr. President, since you …. TRUMP: Tax reform is going to happen fairly quickly. We're doing Obamacare. We're in final stages. We should be submitting the initial plan in March, early March, I would say. And we have to, as you know, statutorily and for reasons of budget, we have to go first. It's not like, frankly, the tax would be easier, in my opinion, but for statutory reasons and for budgetary reasons, we have to submit the health care sooner. So we'll be submitting health care sometime in early March, mid- March. And after that, we're going to come up, and we're doing very well on tax reform. QUESTION: Mr. President, you mentioned Russia. Let's talk about some serious issues that have come up in the last week that you have had to deal with as president of the United States. TRUMP: Okay. QUESTION: You mentioned the vessel — the spy vessel ...

Donald Trump's Press Conference

... and discussed cable TV ratings and panel discussions. Washington (CNN). President Donald Trump launched an extraordinary denunciation Thursday of his critics, complaining he inherited a "mess" and slamming stories that his campaign was constantly in contact with Russia as "fake news.". Most memorable lines from Trump's press conference. Trump held court during a news conference that lasted an hour and fifteen minutes, carving out a stunning moment in modern American political history. He displayed a sense of anger and grievance rarely vented by a President in public - let alone one who has been in office for just four weeks. "I have never seen more dishonest media, frankly than the political media," Trump said, later slamming leaks to the press from the intelligence community - some of which led to the resignation of ...

Trump's Jaw-dropping Lines From Wild White House Press Conference

... machine.”. “There has never been a president that has done so much in such a short period of time… And we haven’t even started the big work yet.”. THE MEDIA. “The leaks are absolutely real. the news is fake.”. “The press has become so dishonest, that if we don’t talk about it we are doing a tremendous disservice to the American people, a tremendous disservice, we have to talk about it … “The press is out of control … the level of dishonesty is out of control.”. Student suspended for recording professor’s anti-Trump rant. “Here’s the problem: The public, they read newspapers, they see television, but they don’t know if it’s true or false, because they’re not involved. I’m involved. I’ve been involved with this stuff all my life. But I’m involved, so I know when you’re telling the truth and when you’re not.”. “The tone is such hatred. I’m really not a bad person by the way.”. “Many of our nation’s reporters will not tell you the ...

A Guide To Trump’s Insane, Hilarious, Frightening, Bizarre Press Conference

... the president asked if those African-Americans were her “friends” and if she could set up a meeting. He ripped into CNN repeatedly, tweaking its White House correspondent, Jim Acosta, by saying he was very careful to make sure his new nominee labor secretary, Alex Acosta, was not a relative. The president also lashed out at “fake news” repeatedly, even while spewing falsehoods. He said he’d had the biggest electoral landslide since 1984. Not true, as New York Daily News editorial Writer Robert George tweeted. Trump was correct only “if you don't count Bush '88, Clinton '92, Clinton '96, Obama '08 and Obama '12.”  He then said he’d been given “misinformation” about the size of his electoral win. If you were in doubt about his TV viewing habits, he says he doesn’t watch CNN—but then proceeded to critique the network, especially the show’s 10 p.m. broadcast anchored by Don Lemon. The ostensible news of the day, the nomination of a respected ...

Trump Just Gave A Weapons-grade Crazy Press Conference

... standards. Below, we’ll go over the seven craziest moments at today’s press conference. Trump says that while the leaks coming out of his administration are real, the news stories being written about them are still fake news. When asked to explain the seeming contradiction in his desire to both crack down on leaks in his administration and to attack news stories based on those leaks, the president simply said the leaks from the administration were real, but the news they generated was fake.”The leaks are real,” Trump said. “The leaks are absolutely real. The news is fake because so much of the news is fake.”. Trump falsely claims that his electoral college victory this past November was the biggest since Ronald Reagan’s. With 306 electoral college votes, Trump’s margin of victory last year was smaller than not only ...

Trump Attacks Media In Lengthy, Combative Press Conference

... Oval Office Thursday morning and told his top aides: "Let's do a press conference today.". Related: An amazing moment in history: Donald Trump's press conference. During his remarks, Trump made several statements about the media that were either untrue or misleading. He claimed reporters at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal did not reach out to him before writing certain stories. Both stories he cited note that the reporters tried to get comment from the White House. The president also called recent stories about his campaign advisers' communications with Russia "fake news" and repeatedly said the New York Times was "failing.". "Russia is fake news," the president said. He went on to say "I've never seen more dishonest media than, frankly, the political media.". At one point, Trump was asked how the stories he condemned as "fake news" could in fact be fake if they were based on leaks he was slamming as illegal. "Well the leaks are real," he said. "You're the one ...