A toddler threw a self-pitying tantrum on live television on Monday night

[kpete]

Unfortunately he was 73 years old, wearing a long red tie and running the world’s most powerful country.

Donald Trump, starved of campaign rallies, Mar-a-Lago weekends and golf, and goaded by a bombshell newspaper report, couldn’t take it any more. Years of accreted grievance and resentment towards the media came gushing out in a torrent. He ranted, he raved, he melted down and he blew up the internet with one of the most jaw-dropping performances of his presidency.

This was, as he likes to put it, “a 10”.

Trump’s Easter had evidently been ruined by a damning 5,500-word New York Times investigation showing that Trump squandered precious time in January and February as numerous government figures were sounding the alarm about the coronavirus.

With more than 23,000 American lives lost in such circumstances, some presidents might now be considering resignation. Not Trump. He arrived in the west wing briefing room determined to tell the world, or at least his base, that he was not to blame. Instead it was a new and bloody phase of his war against the “enemy of the people”: the media. Families grieving loved ones lost to the virus were in for cold comfort here.

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The thin-skinned president lashed out at reporters, swiped at Democrat Joe Biden and refused to accept that he had put a foot wrong. “So the story in the New York Times is a total fake, it’s a fake newspaper and they write fake stories. And someday, hopefully in five years when I’m not here, those papers are all going out of business because nobody’s going to read them,” Trump said.


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[voteearlyvoteoften]

1. Keep him on defense

He looks worse than usual when he has his little blame shifting pity parties.

[niyad]

4. I keep hoping one of his tantrums will result in a serious stroke.

[voteearlyvoteoften]

5. One that keeps him from talking nt

[niyad]

6. What is that medical condition where one is aware, but can neither move nor speak?

[Marcuse]

10. Republicanitis.

[FailureToCommunicate]

23. No, "Republicanitis" is where you blather ALL the time and are completely UNaware.

[llmart]

15. Locked in syndrome.

I've been praying for that for him since 2016.

[niyad]

20. Thank you. I kept thinking "walled-in", but knew that was not correct.

[llmart]

25. That would work too.

We could wall him in a six-foot cement wall cell then he'd have his freakin' "wall" he's always wanted.

[tblue37]

26. Locked in syndrome? nt

[niyad]

27. Yes, thank you.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. I do not want tRump sanctified by becoming a "martyr". He never gave anything to the country. . . nt

[niyad]

21. Not wishing him a martyr. Just no longer a danger.

[barbtries]

17. i just want to see him fall down.

just drop. he doesn't have to die, he doesn't have to have a stroke. just let me see him fall fucking DOWN.

[trueblue2007]

31. He looks worse than usual when he has his little blame shifting pity parties.

[niyad]

2. O"in five years, when I am no longer here"!??? Pretty sure vlad has this in hand, you murderer??

[BComplex]

3. "in five years when I'm not here"....no way.

If you're in for another 4 years, there won't be any united states left, you wrecking ball.

[dalton99a]

7. Not a toddler. He is worse than any human being.

In fact, worse than shit.

[MuseRider]

8. I should not have watched that.

If that had been me I would have shot right back at him with what I thought of him the moment he called me a fake. They are better than me at holding their tempers but at this point a well aimed shoe would be the least of what this asshole deserves.

5 more years? He had better be gone long before that or there will be no more country. We need to become the land of the free and the home of the brave again. We have waited out some lousy and criminal presidents but this one needs to be gone, never should have been allowed the stage.

[2naSalit]

11. If I were there and he called me fake,

I suspect my immediate response would be, "And you're illegitimately holding office!"

Of course I'm sure I would be hustled out and forced to the ground immediately thereafter.

[LakeArenal]

9. My question is why the media taking it.

Leave. Call him out. Don’t ask another question until he answers the last.
What if he gave a rally and nobody in media showed?

[NoRoadUntravelled]

22. That's been my hope since the beginning of this poorly scripted reality $h*t show.

If journalists chose 3 to 5 questions among themselves and were determined to get answers.
Journalist #1 asks the question. Trump rants.
Journalist #2 picks up the question and asks again. Trump raves.
Journalist #3 does the same thing.
Each one follows on until he either answers or melts down.

We could also start contacting the news sources represented by the WH press corps and make it known what kind of journalism we want to see and what questions we want answered.
Journalists could then preface their questions with, "An overwhelming number of our viewers/readers have let us know they want the answer to the following..." or, "The American people are demanding to know.."Then go for it.

Until we hear otherwise, let's go on the assumption that this is still a government by, for and of the people. And then let's insert ourselves into these Propaganda Pressers via the journalists of the news agencies who really, really want to count us among their viewers.

[ChazInAz]

12. A cream pie

I keep hoping that there will be someone in the front row with a cream pie.
I know it's juvenile, but the thought makes me smile a sinister smile.

[AtheistCrusader]

13. Aw man, I thought this was going to be some cute working from home snafu.

This reality sucks.

[spike jones]

14. Positively 4th Street-Bob Dylan

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[Mc Mike]

18. Hey, didn't the fake failing Times run that story about how great your ratings were?

[NoMoreRepugs]

19. I keep musing - what would Dan Rather say if he was there?

His back n forth with Nixon should be mandatory reading for every journalist in America.

[Duppers]

24. It's shoe throwing time.

Re: Shrub

[niyad]

28. As much as I would love to see that (high heels, anyone?), thos brave souls would be arrested.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

29. Can't arrest 'em for all laughing at the Grotesque Orange Pustule.

The WH press corps should all share some joints before his tv rally, then start laughing and pointing at him. Continue until he strokes out.

[niyad]

30. That would be fun to watch.

[JudyM]

34. Oh, yeah!!

That would be great entertainment.

[Blue Owl]

32. K&R

[Initech]

33. I've been going stir crazy and throwing fits since the lockdowns began.

Only difference? I'm not the fucking president. My pouting and anger doesn't affect 320,000,000 people!