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Coronavirus: 'The biggest meltdown ever' from a US president as Trump accused of trying to 'rewrite history'
SKY News ^ | April 14, 2020 | By Alistair Bunkall

Posted on 04/14/2020 2:16:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Donald Trump has used a daily White House COVID-19 news conference to launch a blistering broadside against the US media.

In a lengthy monologue the US president threw accusations against news organisations, reserving the majority of his criticism for The New York Times.

One television network described it as "the biggest meltdown from a US president" they'd ever seen.

At one point he played a video produced by White House staff which included a montage of select clips of state governors praising him for his handling of the crisis.

"You're a fake, you know you're a fake," he argued with one reporter when she asked him what the administration had done to stop the spread of COVID-19 during February. "You're disgraceful, you're so disgraceful."

Rather than using the platform to pay tribute to the hundreds of Americans who lost their lives to coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the president repeatedly listed what he'd done well.

"We've done this right, we've really done this right, the problem is the press doesn't cover it," he said.

CNN broadcast the news conference live but with accompanying graphics accusing the president of turning the briefing into "a propaganda session" and trying to "rewrite history".

Multiple news networks cutaway from the conference as it was ongoing, protesting that the president was wrongly using the session to campaign rather than update on the health crisis sweeping the US.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.sky.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bias; fakenews; journalism; media
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1 posted on 04/14/2020 2:16:42 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Presstitutes don’t like be called out, especially in front of their own cameras.


2 posted on 04/14/2020 2:18:16 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

He calls them fake, shows mountains of evidence that they are fake, and how do they respond? By reporting more fake news. You can’t change stupid.


3 posted on 04/14/2020 2:19:48 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

They really don’t like having it handed back to them, don’t they? It really is arrogance on the media’s part and very little else.


4 posted on 04/14/2020 2:21:16 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"One television network described it as "the biggest meltdown from a US president"

If that was a meltdown, it was the most laid back meltdown I ever seen. Trump was basically whispering the whole time which made me wonder if he had a cold or hadn't slept all week. The media in this country absolutely sucks sucks sucks. It's like having a North Korean misinformation network and you have to seek the truth out on the net. Thank God for the net otherwise we'd never know the truth!

5 posted on 04/14/2020 2:23:26 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

When they squeal, you know that POTUS is on target.


6 posted on 04/14/2020 2:29:29 AM PDT by TheConservativeBanker
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

LMAO *shakeshead*


7 posted on 04/14/2020 2:31:33 AM PDT by cranked
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To: cranked

Perfect execution of the OODA Principle used by the military; Observe, Orient, Decide and Act. DJT paints the target and takes them out.


8 posted on 04/14/2020 2:42:17 AM PDT by tenthirteen
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To: SkyPilot

It was a well-deserved exposure and the reacted like a monolith revealing the Dem .Media isnt competing but working together for a political objective: “Get Trump.”

They utterly expose themselves.


9 posted on 04/14/2020 2:42:24 AM PDT by romanesq (8Chan & its child porn are kaput & all the crap with it. Trump-Pence 2020! Magacoalition.com)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Declare martial law , Mr. President Millions will support you . Stand up a national civilian volunteer militia . Ban the Democrat Party


10 posted on 04/14/2020 2:44:18 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Best president ever.
Still not tired of winning.


11 posted on 04/14/2020 2:47:35 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

It wasn’t a meltdown. It was a laid back ass-kicking. I’d even say Fauci’s impromptu remarks to the press were another one, but the press still likes him enough that they didn’t realize it.


12 posted on 04/14/2020 2:50:26 AM PDT by FreedomForce
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Frauds, can’t even address the substance of the facts, video of your prevarications, proves you are liars and dissemblers...


13 posted on 04/14/2020 2:51:00 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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>> Rather than using the platform to pay tribute to the hundreds of Americans who lost their lives to coronavirus over the past 24 hour

FU, Alistair, you lying sack of crap.

And FU, Comcast

Sky is Comcast. That’s right — Comcast!!!


14 posted on 04/14/2020 3:01:32 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It was not a presidential meltdown.

The president administered a well deserved spanking on reporters who lie.

That’s not rewriting history. Its telling the truth to America.

And the President stayed until all questions were answered. No fading flower was he.


15 posted on 04/14/2020 3:05:38 AM PDT by Candor7 (Hydroxy-chloroquine, she isss jour fren ! Know the Zelenko Protocol)
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To: Candor7

The DNC Media (Ministry of Liberal Truth) not only rewrite history daily, they make it up and collude with foreign communists and socialists.


16 posted on 04/14/2020 3:18:51 AM PDT by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”

Harry S Truman


17 posted on 04/14/2020 3:20:03 AM PDT by shalom aleichem
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To: tenthirteen

Finally, a Rep President that does not take sh*t and fights back.

Best POTUS ever.
God Bless him.


18 posted on 04/14/2020 3:25:27 AM PDT by cranked
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To: Candor7

I LOVED the Clips he showed!!! HYSTERICAL!


19 posted on 04/14/2020 3:33:44 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I guess they never heard of Harry S Truman?


20 posted on 04/14/2020 3:34:10 AM PDT by steve8714
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