LOL!- Donald Chump's “Morning Joe” MELTDOWN
MUST-SEE: Voices get raised and frustration follows as the debate turns to Mexico, crime and immigration
Donald Trump’s appearance on “Morning Joe” turned testy this morning, as the Republican presidential front-runner in many polls clashed with Mika Brzezinski over immigration, Mexico and crime. The transcript of the key section is below. And so is an embed of the entire phone interview, which opens with Trump complaining that the American negotiators of the Iran nuclear agreement evidently did not read his book “The Art of the Deal.”
Transcript courtesy MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”:
This exchange begins at 9:00 of video
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: What do you — what do you regret about anything that you’ve said or done or how you’ve handled a situation? What are you learning? Because this is the first time you’ve actually been on the campaign. It’s been talked about for years, you’ve done a lot of things in your career, but this is something you’ve never done. There must be something that you think, ”I’ve got to change my — my ways here, I’ve got to make a change in strategy.” What regrets do you have along the way?
DONALD TRUMP: Mika, I’ve been very truthful. I — I tell you one thing I have learned is how dishonest, really dishonest, the media — some of it. Some is fantastic and some I have great respect for, but some of the political media, I’m used to dealing with the financial media and I get along with them very well, some of the political media really is very dishonest. They don’t want to print the truth, they don’t want to say what you said, they don’t want to say what you mean. They know what you said, they know what you mean, and they put it in totally different words. It’s like you didn’t say it and it’s incredible to me.
So, I’m very much more careful when I’m dealing with certain people and, frankly, certain people you don’t want to deal with. I mean, I’ve had meetings with some of the various reporters that absolutely have taken what I’ve said and turned it to a point where they know it’s dishonest and they actually smile about it…
BRZEZINSKI: So we know — I know what you’re talking about…
TRUMP: … I just don’t know, but I think it’s important for people to know and I find that the public doesn’t trust the media. It’s almost as bad as not trusting Congress, frankly.
BRZEZINSKI: OK, I totally understand what you’re tapping into there, but let’s just go there, since you’re going there, because I don’t think it was just the media that misunderstood your words, if that’s how you put it. I think some people really understood what you were saying to be Mexican immigrants are rapist and murders.
So let me ask you the question…
TRUMP: No, I didn’t say that, because you didn’t…
BRZEZINSKI: … so let me ask you the question.
TRUMP: You didn’t — Mika, Mika, don’t fall into the other category.
BRZEZINSKI: I’m not falling into it Donald, I’m asking you…
TRUMP: You didn’t — you didn’t read my words…
BRZEZINSKI: I didn’t…
TRUMP: … it says Mexico is sending, the government of Mexico — it says Mexico is sending, it doesn’t say what you said.
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