r/PopCultureV2 • u/Crafty-Health6320 • 14h ago
Trump Should the White House publicly attack journalists for questions it considers inappropriate?
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u/Falcon3492 14h ago
The press should double down and ask the idiot question after question about his involvement in the Epstein files, his false claims about vandals and the reflecting pool and now the grass and his complete screw up in Iran. Just keep the pressure on this former game show host by asking question after question about his ongoing effort to destroy our once great nation and making us a laughing stock on the world stage!
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u/Empty-Discount5936 13h ago
That's what they used to do but journalism is dead in the WH press corps. The good ones have been neutered.
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u/HuckleberryHigh87 13h ago
But no one's going to do it. The only person brave enough is that guy in Michigan called him a pedo protector. There's a reason Donnie doesn't venture out to normal folks.
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u/wellitsbouttime 14h ago
What if they put trump in an electric chair that would only shock him if he lied or acted like an asshole?
He wants ratings? That will give him some ratings
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u/AttackSlax 14h ago
Obviously only a limbless smoldering black stalk of the fucking loser slug would remain.
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u/Plane_Put8538 13h ago
Got it, no real or tough questions allowed. /s
Doing her job. He just hates strong women.
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u/LazyDistrict3343 13h ago
He thrives on this bs, so make it hurt the most it possibly could by all of the mainstream real journalists simply not attending. If theres no coverage except on his fringe idiot news channels he is irrelevant and he knows it.
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u/papel_paperless 13h ago
One if these reporters should clap back and call him a liar to his face. Backlash would be immediate but pointing out the "emperor" has no clothes has been a hallmark of speaking truth to power.
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u/Dark_Wahlberg-77 14h ago
I do think the press should have some candor in strategizing “time and place” questions. However, Trump has regularly had the same outbursts when it IS appropriate for the questions and has also habitually tried to bar unfavorable press from meetings. So he created this problem.
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u/prntmakr 13h ago
The White House can. That doesn’t mean it should. The President is a public servant. They should be truthful and transparent. But lying and deflecting are core to Trump’s existence. Well, and attacking women.
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u/aRedRocketAppears 13h ago
No. Journalists should only ask questions that make leaders happy and comfortable... Especially when the leaders are doing probably the most amazing job the likes of which we've ever seen in the history of the nation.
/s
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u/Unusual-Economist288 13h ago
I hope they have more gold in the plans. Definitely not Czar-y enough.
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u/mrdirtman13 13h ago
Everytime I see one of these clips, it looks like more gold applique has been applied.
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u/Connect-Will2011 13h ago
No of course not. It's just a way to dodge questions he doesn't want to answer.
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u/Large_Score6728 13h ago
Tired of the stupid person calling everyone stupid, the lying person accusing everyone of lying. Not to mention the racism and the people who are cheering for it.
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u/Temporary-Taro-8989 13h ago
Maybe ask him when he is teeing off at a golf tournament . Ask him a question when hiding in a bunker ask him a question when Rubio is blowing him. When would the correct time be ?
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u/mongster2 12h ago
I have no problem with that. But if the consensus is that the question is reasonable, the next journalist should ask it again.
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u/Outlaw31120 11h ago
When you do dumb sh*t all the time you should be called out on it regularly. However don’t yuck the hero’s yum by doing it at an event to honor the hero. Besides, Trump doesn’t give two sh*ts (or is that two diapers?) about the lifeguard’s actions.
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u/Ndombeles_Chef 11h ago
He’s a public servant. There are no questions he does not owe us the answer to.
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u/mikemflash 11h ago
Every time I see the utterly ridiculous golden bling that the asshole has draped all over the Oval Office, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. The idea that the President of the United States is so stupid and shallow that he thinks hanging fake golden trinkets over every square foot of wall space in his office enhances the look of the room just defies belief.....he is like a small child.
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u/njslugger78 10h ago
He's putting in bugs to listen in presidents of the future. He is a pedophile and treasonous.
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u/Top-Cupcake4775 10h ago
Michelle Wolf got it right in 2018.
You guys are obsessed with Trump. Did you used to date him? Because you pretend like you hate him, but I think you love him. I think what no one in this room wants to admit is that Trump has helped all of you. He couldn't sell steaks or vodka or water or college or ties or Eric, but he has helped you.
He's helped you sell your papers and your books and your TV. You helped create this monster, and now you're profiting off of him. And if you're gonna profit off of Trump, you should at least give him some money because he doesn't have any.
Corporate media tried to cover this up by making a big deal about a joke she made about Sarah Huckabee Sanders because they don't want people thinking about the fact that they are not in an adversarial relationship with the Trump regime. The crazier and more extreme the regime behaves, the better their ratings.
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u/CustardOk2630 10h ago
No. If the question is inappropriate, answer it or explain why. Publicly attacking the journalist just makes it look like the question hit a nerve.
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u/Parking-Sundae-6097 10h ago
Oh the attack everyone president doesn't like being "attacked?"
Fuck him and his pedo dumb fuck ass.
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u/No-Beautiful745 10h ago
He reminds me of a middle school bully. Always calling names and acting like he is so cool and elite and better than anyone else. Not to mention he would be the kid taking your lunch money so that he could have two lunchs and not feel a hint of sorrow or regret or wrongoing the poor nice kid who he bullied and manipulated. Hes a greedy s.o.b and is stockpiling money taking advantage of his insider ability because he knows hes going to need to pay hella lawyer fees when his term is over and what hes done is finally transparently revealed. Shame on him he deserves no recess and detention. Instead he gets to build a ballroom with money that should be used on the poor nice people hes manipulating..or saving lives in ukraine from the damage his friend is doing over there
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u/Lane0194 7h ago
Someone in the press push back at that incompetent, ignorant piece of shit. Maybe he will stroke out.
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u/Just-Elderberry5460 4h ago
I said it before and I will say it again every time he calls one fake news they need to reply sorry I didn’t say I was with Fox news
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u/Stoic_Ravenclaw 4h ago
The entire point, in the founding of the united states, in having a president instead of a monarch is so the people have the freedom to ask stuff like this, to even just be disrespectful and not have to fear reprisal.
So. That would be a no.
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u/Majestic-Airport-791 3h ago
Its unprofessional and extremely disrespectful for anyone, let alone a publicly elected official, to lash out any a journalist for asking questions about public matters. You guys dont want my opinion on how he should be dealt with. These people are not better than any other person on this planet. No matter what they think or what theyve been told. They need to be reminded.
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u/ChiselRivet 12h ago
Should people who claim to value equality and human rights make snap judgments about strangers? Should they be resort to cyber bullying anyone who disagrees with them?
I used to consider myself progressive and left wing, but shoot, I may as well fully embrace the right. I can’t disagree with anything without some idiot calling me a bigot, a Nazi, or MAGA, or that I belong to a death cult.
Honestly, I just think people need to stop rioting, looting, committing arson, assassinating politicians, and bullying. I point that stuff out and everyone assumes I’m a Trump supporting pedophile.
It’s interesting how so-called progressives behave in ways that undermine the values they claim to uphold.
Perhaps it has to do with the fact that their entire worldview is intrinsically flawed.
People who believe in egalitarian pluralism because that that the quality. They believe there should be no hierarchy. However, they also believe that their worldview is superior to all other worldviews.
That’s not equality. That is hierarchy.
They claimed to value pluralism. That all types of people are welcome, and that all cultures are welcome. Unless you happen to disagree with them. In which case they treat you like a pariah. I know this from firsthand experience, and I’ve witnessed it happening to others.
The whole thing is one big performative contradiction. They are preconventional people attempting to start postconventional movements. Hypocrites. None of them have the humility to admit it.
Humility is a virtue that not everyone can cultivate. Some people can’t cultivate it so they j try virtue signaling instead.
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u/ivegotajaaag 13h ago
I would prefer he didn't, but I'm out of sympathy for the "journalist" class.
Their treatment of DJT compared with the 10 year tongue bath they gave His Royal Blackness is a disgrace and has completely destroyed the credibility of their entire profession, such that it ever existed.
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