Posted on 11/07/2018 11:08:31 AM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: 'Sit down. You are very rude. You are FAKE NEWS': Trump goes to war on the media and has shouting match with CNN's Jim Acosta as White House intern tries to grab the reporter's microphone
President Donald Trump and CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta got into a heated verbal back-and-forth at the White House on Wednesday that resulted in the president telling the reporter to 'sit down' and aides wrestling with the reporter to try and get the mic out of his hands.
'CNN should be ashamed of itself having you work for them. You are a rude terrible person. You shouldn't be working for CNN,' the president said to Acosta.
'When you report fake news, which CNN does a lot, you are the enemy of the people,' he told him.
The shocking exchange came as Acosta was asking the president about the migrant caravan.
Trump and Acosta have long have a contentious relationship as the CNN reporter often asks the president questions that seemed designed to illicit a reaction from him.
And the president snapped at other reporters in the room and told them to sit down, including Urban Radio's April Ryan, not letting her ask a question.
'Sit down please. Sit down. I didn't call on you. I didn't call on you,' Trump said when Ryan tried to get in a question.
'Excuse me I'm not responding to you. I'm talking to his gentleman. Would you please sit down,' he said after calling on Daily Caller correspondent Saagar Enjeti with Ryan attempting to ask a question instead.
And when Ryan attempted to keep asking, the president said: 'It's such a hostile media. It's so sad.'
'You rudely interrupted him,' Trump told Ryan.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
acosta is an embarrassment to civil humanity. What a base putz.
Good for Trump.
CNN is still sore about losing the 2016 election.
What do you want to bet that every time Trump confronts Asscota, he gets a bonus in his paycheck.
Let CNN send somebody else to the White House
When the fake news media reporters ask Trump a question it is always in the form of an accusation, such as do you really believe it is all right to molest children.
Trump holds his temper much better than i could ( and i have no doubt he has one ) i would want to take a base ball bat to the sobs.
Trump should let the journalists police their own - next time Acosta or his ilk act out, simply end the press conference and leave - his brothers in the trade love these chances to be on stage with the president so much that they’ll soon pressure the thugs to shape up or else......
The only thing "illicit" here is the author's inability to understand the difference between "ELICIT" and "illicit."
Unbelievable. Don’t these people go to elementary school?
How far we've fallen as a society...
Why doesn’t he do CNN a favor and pull Acosta’s White House Press credentials?
On a thread a while back a “journalist” wrote, “eluding to” instead of “alluding to”.
Quite discouraging. Par-for-the-course in contemporary society, however...:-(
Trump was a boxer BITD. He’d make that pussyman’s eyes
light up like a tilted pinball table with a shot to the labonz’
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