Trump storms off after question from AP reporter:

[Kingofalldems]

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[Marcuse]

1. He can't handle the truth.

[mitch96]

34. Yup, why tell the truth when a lie will surfice.......... nt

[brush]

46. He tops his own ineptness everyday. We have no president. We have a surly bully pretending to be one

[marble falls]

2. Truth hurts.

[Ford_Prefect]

15. What you said !!!!!!!

[Mr. Evil]

30. Right you are but, it's still the truth.

Which is something else we've been dangerously in short supply of with President Covidiot and his republican ass-kissers.

[MythosMaster]

3. How can anyone look at this dotard

And say"yeah he is a true leader".

[Celerity]

75. look at THEM

[MythosMaster]

84. I try not to

Those images remind me why I got rid of my tv and cable.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. We found the weak spot!

[Grasswire2]

68. yep nt

[Grasswire2]

69. the solution is for reporters to address all questions to Pence and ignore Trump.

"My question is for the vice president."

"My question is for the vice president."

"My question is for the vice president."


See how long it takes for him to wig out.

[spudspud]

76. LOL.

That would be hilarious.

[muntrv]

79. Or Dr. Fauci.

[SidDithers]

5. Keep asking....nt

Sid

[bluestarone]

6. PLEASE ask lots of this type of questions

He needs to be VERY UNCOMFORTABLE all the time!! HIT HIM WITH THE TRUTH!!!

[Kitchari]

14. Yes, these questions MUST continue

Keep him uncomfortable, maybe then he will either stop these pointless spectacles or snap completely on live television

[thecrow]

53. Note to reporters:

All of you should ask the same question. Each day.
Then he’d walk off sooner.

[lark]

7. Because drumpf had either stolen the supplies for profit or had never replaced missing/bad products.

I personally believe it was the primarily first and was done when we shipped a whole plane of supplies to China while Americans are dying and first responders totally overwhelmed.

[Cracklin Charlie]

9. I think he gave away the strategic reserves.

Thinking we could just quickly make more at the companies that he and the GOP quickly invested their money.

They had planned to acquire a fortune from our misery.

Inhuman.

[RVN VET71]

47. The sad thing is they didn't "plan" anything

The GOP doesn't plan ahead, they just make use of any crisis, any tragedy, to line their "sweaty and enseamed" pockets. It matters not the suffering that they exacerbate (witness the profiteering in the selling of protective masks and gloves and antibacterial gel, the cancelling of a buyer's order so that the same product can be put back out for sale at a higher price).

GOP stands only for greed and power, power that ensures the door is open to satisfy higher levels of grosser and more despicable greed.

[ZZenith]

70. I completely reject your premise.

The GOP expends a great deal of energy preparing themselves to profit off of disasters they then enable. We do ourselves no favors denying this simple fact.

[RVN VET71]

85. I reject your rejection -- because, actually, I think we are in agreement mostly

The GOP is ever ready to profit from disasters and will, as you say, work to make a disaster worse when they can -- if it means profit to them.

The GOP didn't destroy the WTC (although conspiracy theories abound) but they profited mightily from it, using it to falsely justify a war against a nation not involved in 9/11 to increase the profits of private, right wing leaning and operated contracting companies, via non-competes, to fatten the already swollen purses of Dick Cheney, to enable Eric Prince to make millions of dollars via Blackwater's marauding mercenaries. They didn't cause Katrina, but they made sure one of their own would profit hugely by selling the Cheney/Bush administration those thousands of poisoned trailers that made so many people sick, not to mention the overpricing of reconstruction, etc.

I don't know if the GOP profited from the AIDS epidemic. But I do know that they sold their souls for their smug refusal to do anything to stop its deadly spread.

I'm a subscriber to Naomi Klein's "Shock Doctrine" wherein she points out that big corporations, Republicans, and capitalists in general are ever ready to pounce on a chance to squeeze profit from others' suffering.

Of course and without question they will chip away and chip away at the social safety net to cause anger and anguish among the poor. There probably are profits to be gleaned by doing this, but I really think the prime motivator there is the infliction of more and more suffering, pain, and despair for its own sake on those unfortunate enough to be born without silver spoons in their mouths. I remember the so-called "moderate" Republican, Mitt Romney, referring to the poor sneeringly as "takers" and "useless eaters."

[ZZenith]

86. I completely accept your revised premise.

But please know, they have their next year’s worth of fuckery all ready to roll out.

”People like you are still living in what we call the reality-based community. You believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality. That's not the way the world really works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you are studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors, and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.“ - Karl Rove

[Captain Zero]

78. not gave away, SOLD THEM OUT THE BACK DOOR

like a mobster.

[live love laugh]

83. 2-7-20 shipped 17 tons of PPE to China after golf 2-6. nt

[aeromanKC]

8. Well, we know what the first question today should be

[Dirty Socialist]

12. "Why are you such an asshole?"

Americans want to know

[Rorey]

20. That's the one I'd ask

Of course I already know the answer. It's because he's an insecure narcissistic jerk. Always has been.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

42. "What the actual fuck is wrong with you?"

[Marie Marie]

67. I vote for this question.

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. Gotta wonder why the real media keep showing up at these campaign events. Trump

keeps hijacking the "news" and the Media follow along like the children after Pied Piper.

[sprinkleeninow]

19. That's my deduction in a previous post of mine.

Why are they showing up and participating in this horror show. They keep making it possible.

Let's see * talking to empty chairs.

One thinks to themselves, "Alright. That's really bad. [His current egregious stunt.] The last straw. Can't get any worse than that."

Yah well, think again, self.

[yellowdogintexas]

27. empty chairs worked for Clint Eastwood..right?

I would really love to watch him implode when he walks into an empty room

[tblue37]

64. Remember when Avenatti gave a presentation as conference & nobody came?

[Nay]

29. I would like all the news outlets to get together and agree that:

--only one lone reporter would attend each session, chosen in any manner agreed upon
--that reporter's outlet would share the video with every other outlet, free
--a list of pointed questions would be given out so that day's reporter could get in a jab

[DUar17]

65. If they all stopped showing up then the MSM will put his largeass in front of a green screen

and just put in digital reporters. I'm really shocked that they haven't done this yet!

[DanieRains]

11. Nevermind That Pile Of Bodies Over There And The 100,000 Body Bags On Order

Cuz we're doing a FANTASTIC job.

[bluescribbler]

13. trumplethinskin shows his true colors.

He cannot stand to have his ego questioned.

[Texaswitchy]

16. Keep it up.

Do not back down.

[Stuart G]

17. This is totally brilliant. It totally defines who and what Trump is in 52 seconds.. That is it!!!

..52 seconds..

..52 seconds...



Someone disagrees with him, or argues with him..he stops, and puts that person down. (in this case, walks away, the put down is that he doesn't answer..and walks away)

He always does that..You got to ask the question correctly. or not at all.

[spanone]

18. the ultimate mother effer.

[Dukkha]

21. What a thin skinned crybaby

Tell tale sign he's ALWAYS in over his head: just strings together nonsensical superlative adjectives.

[NoMoreRepugs]

22. Who has the stones to ask - "president tRUMP, after telling

15000 lies as president, why should anyone believe ANYTHING you say??”

[OMGWTF]

24. Shitler was up to 16,000 documented lies MONTHS ago -- it's got to be about 20,000 by now.

[COLGATE4]

23. He's quite the pouty little shit, isn't he?

[Stuart G]

26. ...Yes, he is..and that 52 seconds proves it to everyone...

[COLGATE4]

28. Any quasi-sentient being would think so, but

I can just imagine the hordes of his Maga-morons cheering him 'showing that goddam fake news what's what'. You can't fix stupid.

[RobinA]

55. Yes,

he's a pouty little third grade bully. Something happened to him about elementary school age and his development stopped there. I keep waiting to hear, "I know you are but what am I?" come out of his mouth. He's got the tone in place, just needs to utter the words.

[Ilsa]

25. Investigative journalists need to find documents

of trump and kushner that show they entered into partnerships with certain healthcare industry providers during the lag period of knowing about COVID-19 and finally acting on it.

I bet they delayed action, and to the public, delayed taking it seriously, until their deals were all set up.

[Chili Pepper]

50. I agree!!

That's what I've been saying all along.

I really don't think he was asleep at the wheel earlier this year. I firmly believe he saw this as an opportunity to make a profit (while not thinking COVID-19 would become this deadly) and began setting up his new profit strategy. He needed time to put everything in place … public health be damned.

I also think he's been working out deals with commercial suppliers that involved funneling products in the national stockpile to them and splitting the profits.

[McKim]

72. Brilliant Thinking!

Brilliant thinking, Ilsa! This would explain the delay, While no one on this board would think like the Trump family, we need to think like them to understand why they do what they do!
Money is their god!

[riversedge]

31. Toddler Trump having another temper tamtrum

[Laelth]

32. k&r for exposure. n/t

-Laelth

[3Hotdogs]

33. Aw fuck. Ya mean the A.P. has now gone done the shitter?

It ain't just CNN and MSNBC?

It must be a virus affecting these news outlets.

[Newest Reality]

36. Really.

It's like they have Fakitis or something.

When it's not approved by Dear Leader, it's just not news.

[3Hotdogs]

37. Thank dog for Pravda with Sean and Tucky-tuck.

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[Pepsidog]

35. Press harder Press. Speak louder! Don't let him push you around. Ask leading questions "Don't you

agree that your administration’s delay until mid-March in ordering supplies....”. Q. “By eliminating the Bush/Obama PREDICT program to help identify potential pandemic threats worldwide haven’t you crippled the United State’s ability to quickly identify and respond to potential pandemics”. Q. “Didn’t you waste valuable time and endanger the country by golfing and going to campaign events and tweeting for the last three months “. Q. By doing virtually nothing to help predict this pandemic, golding _____ times during the last 3 months, conducting campaign events and calling the pandemic a democratic hoax aren’t you responsible for the or rad of the virus and deaths to date”. Q. Isn’t it true that while Obama era pandemic experts who could greatly help are sitting home your appointment of Jared who has no experience in supply line logistics has caused many needless deaths and helped spread the disease? Q. Isn’t it true Jared is a real estate developer and has no experience in pandemic supply logistics? Q. Have you considered you and Pence resigning so that Nancy Pelosi can much more effectively run the country and the pandemic response?

[McKim]

73. May it Happen!!!!!

My it happen!!!! We need just one reporter willing to lose his/her job and do this. They would become a national hero/heroine! Remember how: “ Sir, have you no shame! Have you no decency?!!” Was the end of Joe McCarthy?

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

77. Seriously! Journalists can wield a lot of power to inform the public

rather than giving Pissolini yet another opportunity for self-aggrandizement with idiotic questions like, "How would you rate your performance on..." Gee, who could guess he'd give himself a 10???!!!

[yaesu]

38. There should be a reporter "pool", pun intended, to see who can piss off the man baby the most. nt

[Botany]

39. DUer neeksgeek nailed it Trump is Mr. Lundergard from Fargo, when the questions get tough he runs.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13236641

&feature=emb_logo

[Midnightwalk]

40. It's a horrible look

Question was a little hard to hear but simple enough

Records show.....interruption......federal agencies didn’t.....who you work for.....begin bulk purchases of .....talking over....respirators until mid march.

(Sorry for best attempt. I couldn’t listen another time)

Fema and the military are doing a wonderful job shpiel. Walks off in a huff without getting close to an answer.

I wish that was the end of him saying anything but he probably puffed himself up for another answer.

He’s survived doing this ....you again....who do you work for....oh fake news....go ahead....nonanswer baloney.

I think even he realized that doing that daily is like watching a badly done magic trick. Even the rubes know every step. Worse doing the same bit everyday hasn’t worked since vaudeville

I’d love to have the time and video skills to make a montage of his bs trying to tell his 3rd grade teacher why he didn’t do his homework.

[stillcool]

54. not a montage, but I thought

a "Lie-A-Day" multi-year calendar might make a nice gift around the holdiays.

[Enoki33]

41. Think the reporters have figured that the way to puncture his bubble

of lies, fake empathy and playing doctor is to ask the hard questions he will try to deflect because he cannot ever be seen as the grifter he is. Psychologists tell us extreme narcissists fear anything that embarrasses them, as they have to be adored.

[mucifer]

43. You have to listen carefully to hear the reporter's question I hope people noticed the actual

question. It was really important.

[ihaveaquestion]

44. Maybe he'll stay away?

We can only hope.

[kentuck]

45. The truth makes him angry

and he starts acting all guilty and attacks the person asking the question.

Every time.

[geardaddy]

48. What an absolute baby.

[aggiesal]

49. We have an A$$ for a pResident ...

Wouldn't even let him ask the question.
Then once he finds out who he worked for, he says "... not so great. Not like it used to be."

He has a face, that you just want to punch.

[Jamastiene]

51. He is the biggest snowflake of them all.

They call us snowflakes as an insult, but their Dear Leader is the biggest snowflake of them all, in reality.

If someone with PhotoShop talents REALLY wants to piss all Trump supporters off in the most effective way, put a big ol' snowflake around his head in one of these clips and have a meme with a quote of him complaining about how the media is "not fair" to him under the picture. It would make their heads explode.

I wish I was good at it.

[barbtries]

52. they should stop taking his abuse.

he's not normal. people don't act this way.

the media really has to take their responsibility to the country and to the truth seriously, and stop giving him free campaign commercials every day. it kills me that they won't. for all i know it will literally kill me.

[bluestarone]

57. AGREE fully

Gotta be like a SHARK that smells blood!! Then take him under!!

[barbtries]

58. i wish they would

just persistently continue asking the same question until the steam comes out of his ears. in my fantasy he falls down.

i hate the way they take it. we're nation of abused people and it's being normalized by the media. that, to me, is their biggest failure. they have failed to maintain the fourth estate as it was meant to be, a safeguard for democracy.

[bluestarone]

60. MY biggest dream!

Reporters ask the SAME question until answered like you said!!! I would START watching his conferences if THIS happens!!!!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

56. Here we go again

[William769]

59. Please please please wake me up from this nightmare!

[lpbk2713]

61. "Whassamatter? Don't you see my new clothes?"

Some days it just doesn't pay to be emperor.

[BComplex]

62. Gawd! The bully is such a friggin' baby.

He stomped off because he needed his diaper changed.

[Blue Owl]

63. Sweeney Toddler

n/t

[tiptonic]

66. Poor baby

Was that nasty old reporter, mean to Benedict donald? Poor baby!!!

[SleeplessinSoCal]

71. Let us hope that his insistence on lying and being in our face 24/7

blows up in his face. He is now orally anger tweeting, not doing his job, and undermining those trying to do theirs We all see it.

[flibbitygiblets]

74. another day, another trumper tantrum

"you should be thanking me" said every dictator ever

[yuiyoshida]

80. I LOVE when they hold his feet to the fire....

He squeals like a stuck piggy.

[Trueblue Texan]

81. Nope...He just can't handle it...

...the truth or the responsibility of the Presidency and he certainly can't handle being held accountable. Your day is coming, prez... Justice is gonna get you!

[live love laugh]

82. "Who are you with?" That's street gang slang. nt