Trump Staff Laughed, Clapped Along During Adversarial Press Conference

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NEW YORK -- Donald Trump was met with a rousing round of applause when he exited the elevators Wednesday at Trump Tower for his first press conference in 167 days.

But that enthusiastic greeting came from supporters and members of his own staff, not the estimated hundreds of reporters who gathered to ask him questions.

Trump's family waited in the wings of the stage to his right, while senior advisers including Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway, Sean Spicer and Steve Mnuchin stood to the left, out of view of the cameras. A small, vocal group clustered near Trump's family by the elevators acted as cheerleaders for the President-elect for the duration of the hour-long event, laughing heartily at his jokes and responding aloud to his rhetorical questions.

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[Tanuki]

1. He has quite a history of paying people to do things to give him pleasure.

I'd say the staff were fortunate that this time he only wanted people to applaud and not urinate on one another while he watched and choked his chicken.

[Stellar]

2. I was asking all day yesterday about the clapping and cheering

that I heard at the news conference, now it comes out. It was exactly as I thought it was. Just a confidents booster for Trump. He love the adulation and being stroked by loving admires. Osswipe!

[Gothmog]

3. Any one working for trump would have to be an asshole

[Vinca]

4. Did they have matching brown shirts?

[JenniferJuniper]

5. The clown needs a laugh track

[Bengus81]

6. Pretty soon before they laugh and applaud........

They'll have an arm outstretched and raised first. Heil Drumph!!