Trump calls CNN 'fake news' after reporter asks him question at G-7

[turbinetree]

Source: The Hill

President Trump slammed CNN as “fake news” after a reporter with the news organization asked him a question during a press briefing at the Group of Seven (G-7) summit.

After the reporter asked Trump a question about tensions between him and other leaders at the G-7 summit, the president asked what network he was from.

“Who are you with out of curiosity?” Trump asked the reporter, who replied that he was from CNN.

“I figured,” Trump said. “Fake News CNN. The worst."

Trump then began to say that he “could tell by the question,” before clarifying that he did not previously know the reporter’s affiliation.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/391486-trump-calls-cnn-fake-news-after-cnn-reporter-asks-him-question-at-g7

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What a fucking pin head.......................if it had been me I would have said it really is none of your business, and two.............why do you lie, and sleep with the enemy of the press................like I don't know Russia, they go around and murder journalists


November 2018 cannot get here fast enough

[Still In Wisconsin]

1. Fucking tinpot tyrant Trump.

He probably has no idea the rest of the world sees right through him.

[RKP5637]

4. He's a joke to the world, I doubt he gets it at all. n/t

[busterbrown]

13. "He's a joke" is true..

But it's a very frightening joke!

[RKP5637]

19. Yep, like right out of a horror flick! n/t

[RKP5637]

2. Fake News Yelling as uttered by a fake stupid president! n/t

[quartz007]

3. After getting treated like a pariah at G7, I expected

Rump to be showing frustration and despair. Instead he was in a belligerent mood during the presser. Is he becoming senile?

[ggmac0427]

20. Can't get this tune out of my head...

Sung to the tune of "They call the Wind Mariah":

Pariah, Pariah, they call the Drumph Pariah

[CrispyQ]

23. Not senile -- emboldened.

Nobody's stopping him. The GOP congress has abdicated their responsibility of keeping a runaway executive in check. The dems have been neutered. The Mueller/Daniels/Zervos cases are being worked in the background, but everyday this fucker is in office he does more damage. He thrives on the chaos he creates.

[quartz007]

25. He has been planning this chaos for 10+ years

Have you by any chance seen some of his interviews on TV from long ago? And you are exactly right, he is getting bolder
by the week. Unless Mueller publishes some serious charges the GOP congress is not going to impeach.

[CatMor]

5. That fake news line of his is getting old...

he's too stupid to come up with something new. He knows damn well it's not fake news.

[Chickensoup]

6. Calling mainstream media fake news

Is not a different perspective or a debatable point of view. It goes counter to
To our values. Mainstream media,
time to take a stand against what Trump is doing. Time to call him out for what he is.
a closet dictator who should be given no respect at all.

[Backwoodsrider]

7. this Quebec and NK trip all about talking toward his 40% base

Trump team knows nobody else matters not democrats not other world leaders just his base. As long as Trump keeps that 40% base behind him he is staying in Whitehouse, Democrat super delegate revisions be damned. Oh and Putin too.

Those 2 are all Trump has to speak too

[George II]

8. It's more like 30%.

[Cosmocat]

9. No it isn't

If anything is on the upside of 40% ...

[mwooldri]

12. 87.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44324545

Yup, his base is much bigger than 40% of Republicans.

[Cosmocat]

16. It is that, and

our side wants to assume any non R hatse him, and that simply is not true.

I know a LOT of Is, and Ds for that matter, who like him just fine.

He has crossed that rubican, where there is almost literally nothing he can say or do that that these people will peel off on him, everyone I talk to, read a Facebook post or hear them talk about it, they think he is a victim ...

[CrispyQ]

24. Forty years of hate radio (& now Fox news) telling red states that dems are worse than Satan.

The dems want to take your hard earned money & give it to the lazy minorities, pay for abortions for uppity women, & give gay people the right to marry. That Jones/Moore race shouldn't have even been close. Trump ran one of the most vile, hateful campaigns & was within such close margins that the election could be swayed. That's how perverted GOP values are.

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. Fuck Trump.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Fake president

[Sneederbunk]

14. Illegitimate president.

[FakeNoose]

15. I wish the reporter would have said "Fox News"

... but ya know, that would have been lying. They're not allowed to lie.

One of these days a reporter is gonna give the right answer when Trump shouts "Fake News."
Somebody with brass balls will answer "Fake President!"

[SammyWinstonJack]

17. To which the reporter should have countered with, "sez you".

Just once I wish one would come back with a retort that would leave tRUMP speechless, red faced and completely humiliated. If only.

[Jedi Guy]

18. It'd certainly be nice to see it.

Unfortunately, the reporter who did such a thing would be barred from the news pool by Trump's handlers, or the reporter's news agency would be banned entirely so someone else couldn't take his/her place. That's just the kind of trick Trump would pull if a reporter annoyed him enough.

What the entire press should do is ignore him. If they absolutely must discuss him, avoid using his name. Refer to him obliquely. He'd blow a gasket if they did something like that because it's all about him, in his mind. If they delegitimize him into being a non-entity, he'd lose his shit in moments.

[GeorgeGist]

21. Reality Showman.

It's so fucking easy even Trump can do it.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

22. If I were covering IQ45, I wouldn't be a good reporter.

If Trump called me out as being "fake news," my reflex response would be, "Fake news, fake president."

There was another time when Donnie Two Scoops told a reporter, "I know what you're thinking." This was the free-for-all in front of the Trump Hotel when IQ45 said there were good people "on both sides" in Charlottesville. My knee-jerk response would have been, "No, you don't know what I'm thinking!"

I guess if my livelihood depended on taking whatever the asshole-in-chief handed out, I'd stand there and take it. Whatever I think about Katy Turr's interviewing skills, she hung in there during the MAGA rallies when Trump would call her out by name from the podium (she said in an interview on the Daily Show that there were times it was scary). She was brave enough not to leave the press pool, although I believe there was one time she had to be escorted to her car after Trump riled up the crowd against her.

I'm old enough to remember the following exchange between Nixon and Dan Rather, which occurred in the middle of the Watergate scandal (notice the boos when Rather introduced himself):

As corrupt as he was, Nixon didn't stop holding press conferences, unlike our current coward-in-chief, who hasn't held one in more than 500 days. I was in journalism school when the Nixon-Rather exchange happened, and as far as we were concerned, Dan was our hero.

After nearly 50 years Rather is still a force to be reckoned with.

[oberliner]

26. Which CNN reporter was it?

[madamesilverspurs]

27. Reporters should answer

Reporters should answer, "I'm with the Fourth Estate." Probably confuse the heck out of him.



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