Posted on 04/20/2020 10:47:05 AM PDT by sickoflibs
On Sunday, Trump made an announcement about CNN
Let it be known: The network is “pathetic.”
One thing you can say about the guy is he’s not especially vague.
During Sunday’s Coronavirus Task Force press briefing, a CNN reporter queried:
“On President Xi, you now talk about the missteps that China made early on in this crisis and how it put the United States behind the curve. So, when you repeatedly praised Xi in January and February, you said he will solve the problem, you said he was doing a great job. Were you duped by President Xi?”
Press Pause.
It seems to me that so many of the media’s questions for Trump, particularly during this pandemic, are aimed at creating “Gotcha” moments.
“Many” = Any more than the appropriate number, which would be none.
(((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio ✔ @jasonrantz CNN reporter Jeremy Diamond does his best to shill for communist China with a lame gotcha question that @realdonaldtrump bats away easily.
As for the circumstance with China, The Daily Wire offers two interesting points:
[T]he Trump administration banned travel from China and created a Coronavirus Task Force in January to deal with the outbreak, which came as the U.S. had cases in the single digits and had no reported deaths until late-February.
And:
[T]he Trump administration, which tried to get the CDC into China in early January, might have had a significantly harder time getting information out of China about the outbreak and critical supplies that were needed to fight the outbreak had the administration openly started criticizing the communist party.
But suggesting the President was “duped,” in my opinion, sounds as if the Collusion News Network’s asking, “Would you say you’re a dope?”
The reporter perpetually interrupted, and the Commander-in-Chief eventually dropped the hammer:
“You people are so pathetic at CNN.”
Clear.
The Prez also correctly noted that, after he’d banned travel, Nancy Pelosi was telling people to gather in Chinatown.
Oh, and just to drive it home, once again, CNN’s a turd:
“Listen, long before Pelosi, she was having parties in San Francisco, ‘Let’s go to Chinatown,’ and that was a long time after I closed up the country. That’s why your ratings are so bad because you’re pathetic. Your ratings are terrible, you got to get back to real news.”
Here’s a reminder of just how pitiful politics can be:
Tom Elliott @tomselliott · Mar 29, 2020 .@SpeakerPelosi blames Trump for Coronavirus deaths: "The president, his denial at the beginning, was deadly. His delaying of getting equipment to where it — his continued delay in getting equipment to where it’s needed is deadly … as the president fiddles, people are dying."
Tom Elliott @tomselliott Pelosi, touring San Fran’s Chinatown Feb. 24: “We do want to say to people, come to Chinatown, here we are … come join us”
Back to the news briefing brawl, we’ve come to a place where it seems the Trump administration’s primary adversary is the press. Listen to news reels from the days of World War II — journalists were banded together with America, White House and all. These days, some in the media appear more ready to side with China than us, if it means going against that orange guy.
Such a penetration of partisanship and lack of national unity is…what’s the right word? Oh, yeah — a bit pathetic.
C’mon, folks!
Find the transcript below:
CNN: Mr. President, on President Xi, you now talk about the missteps that China made early on in this crisis and how it put the United States behind the curve.
TRUMP: Well, based on an investigation, we’re going to find out. Yeah, sure.
CNN: So, when you repeatedly praised Xi in January and February, you said he will solve the problem, you said he was doing a great job. Were you duped by President Xi?
TRUMP: No, no, no, no. I made a deal that’s phenomenal for the United States. You know who was duped? You. You and the Obama Administration were duped for years because China was ripping off this country like in the history of any country, nobody’s been ripped off like the United States by China and many other countries, and we stop it. And we’ve done a deal where they are paying us 250 — they are buying…they didn’t do anything for us. You know, we didn’t even have a deal. It was so bad … It is about a deal. Because the deal started a long time ago before anybody heard about this — the deal was finished a number of months ago…I was very happy. I hope they were happy. Billions of dollars came in in tariffs. Billions of dollars. They’re going to be purchasing billions. And then all of a sudden, long after that, I find out about this. And I told you —
CNN: [Interrupting]
TRUMP: Listen, CNN. Listen, CNN. I told you, I’m not happy about it. And this was after the deal. So we have this wonderful deal, and I was very — nobody‘s been tougher before the deal ever on China than Trump. Then I made a deal, was very happy with the deal. It’s a great deal, great for our farmers. The farmers have been paid a fortune already. Then what happened…now I find out after the deal, after the deal…I find out that I’m not happy.
CNN: [Interrupting]
TRUMP: You people are so pathetic at CNN. … I was very happy with the deal. Very happy with everything. Then we find out about the plague, right? The plague. And since we found out about that, I’m not happy. But I closed it up long before Pelosi —
CNN: [Interrupting]
TRUMP: Listen, long before Pelosi, listen, she was having parties in San Francisco. ‘Let’s all go to Chinatown’, and that was a long time after I closed up the country … That’s why your ratings are so bad because you’re pathetic. Your ratings are terrible, you gotta get back to real news
“TRUMP: Listen, long before Pelosi, listen, she was having parties in San Francisco. ‘Let’s all go to Chinatown’, and that was a long time after I closed up the country … That’s why your ratings are so bad because you’re pathetic. Your ratings are terrible, you gotta get back to real news”
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in other words, FU Fake News
They forgot Trumps “you don’t have the brains you were born with” moment.
“Hammer of Thor” huh? CNN is getting exactly the response from Trump that they’re hoping for with every question they ask.
Finally a president that speaks the truth - finally - and the media hates him for it.
CNN's constituents want to hear the gotcha questions every bit as much as the President's constituents want to hear him slap them around.
He was completely off point. His hostility came off as mere petulance. He could have made himself look a lot better if he'd just addressed China's duplicity and thrown the blame back where it belongs.
Of course, it's easy to second-guess when I'm sitting at home instead of facing a firing squad of biased "news" drones.
Trump is appealing to his base when he slaps the media around, energizes the other base when he slaps the media around, and the reaction of those in the middle is probably mixed when he slaps the media around. Day after day the media goes out to get under Trump's skin and day after day he lets them.
With airports mostly empty, who is actually watching CNN? Nobody.
Does that include hoping for crappy ratings, because that's what the Trump era brought them, as Trump rings their bell with nearly every question.
You best stay far away from the political consulting biz.
Um...this is not Democratic Underground. Just a friendly reminder.
“President Xi”..., President? He is a party chairman dictator for life. He has no voters, he stands for no election. There is no check on him beyond the approval of fellow communist party gang members.
That’s like calling Pablo Escobar a “President”.
According to the graph from the Wall Street Journal. the CNN ratings, never high to begin with, are up during the Trump years: Link
Looks like they're hoping that Thor gives them a boost by causing him to lose his temper?
If he let the task force answer questions, we’d be left with Fauci thinking we should stay closed till 2025 until everyone on the planet had been tested for a virus that everyone is going to get anyway making the testing frankly meaningless except to drag out this nonsense into the far future. At least here he gets to get his points in regardless of how is approach looks filtered by the media. These questions are like when did you stop beating your wife?
You don’t get it. The only reason CNN rating would up is it’s human nature for people to gawk at disasters. Like driving by an accident, everyone slows down and looks at the ugly spectacle.
Again, do yourself a favor and stay far away from the political consulting biz.
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