A Rose Garden Rant Exposes Trump's True Nature

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Jul 16, 2020 7 min read

Babbling buzzwords and railing against the usual suspects, Trump’s appearance left the impression of an unwell cartoon villain

Written byBRIAN KAREM

For 40 minutes on Tuesday afternoon two dozen reporters in the White House press corps waited for Donald Trump in the Rose Garden.

It was over 90 degrees, muggy and there were enough mosquitoes in attendance that some blades of grass looked black.

Finally Trump came out to speak, and for about an hour what was billed as a news conference became a campaign rally speech. There was little news. Just the president using the White House press corps as props while he ranted about Joe Biden, the European Union, China and coronavirus. He praised the stock market and what a great job he’s doing and complained that Democrats want to tear down our statues and the Great Wall of Trump.

Trump said he might take questions and, friends, he did—a few of them. He took one from Steve Portnoy at CBS Radio about the presidential race, one about China and one from One America News Network about what a great job Trump’s doing. I sat in the third row. CNN’s Jim Acosta sat directly in front of me. ABC’s Jon Karl was ahead of me and to my left; Jeff Mason of Reuters ahead and to my right. Yamiche Alcindor of PBS sat directly to my right, as did Weijia Jiang from CBS. It was a “murderers’ row” of reporters. We’ve all been known to ask Trump pointed questions. He stared at us individually during his rambling tirade and winked at me but never called on me. He didn’t call on anyone who might push back hard against him.

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1. an unwell cartoon villain

This

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2. There was applause and cheering at some of his bizarre remarks. Utterly baffling.