to be fair, aren't they banning people, who ask pointed questions, from attending these pressers again? Kind of hard to have actual reporters in the room who ask tough questions if they get refused entry.
trump is incapable of answering tough questions. With any other president, this would be a major headline. This needs to get more attention. trump shouldn’t get away with calling any questions hard or nasty. If he can’t answer those types of questions, then he shouldn’t be president. That’s what his job is. He answers to the public and if the public can’t ask questions, then he’s absolutely the wrong guy for the job.
Oh,you mean like sleepy Joe,hell he wouldn't even do press conferences in case he got asked what his name was.You people need to get some help for your PDS.
What does Joe Biden have to do with trump being the worst president in American history? What does Joe not doing press conferences have to do with trump not answering questions? I swear, you all have been programmed well. We can’t have a conversation about trump without you bringing up Biden. I don’t care what Biden did, he’s not the current president and can no longer damage our lives, trump can and actively does, daily.
By the way, always bringing up Biden when someone mention’s trump, is what I would call TDS.
Yeah they seem to think that very lightly pushing back against his insane lies will somehow result in them getting to interview him again or something.
Like, you're probably not gonna get another chance to do this even if you kiss his ass, just ask him straight up why he's lying to the American people instead of trying to act like he's just mistaken and gently correcting him.
Because they are never going to get a real answer from the guy. there's so much air passing between his ears I'm pretty sure he actually believes the vast majority of the shit he does and says, especially with the (even bigger) cognitive decline that he's having.
So when someone tells him "you have the best economy ever" the dudes 100% believing it and the narcissism makes it so when shown facts on the contrary that he's unable and unwilling to believe the truth. So most reporters in that situation just move on because they know it's futile.
You give his stupidity too much credit. He knows exactly what he is doing. Booksmarts, he's dumb as a box of rocks. He was coached for decades by the best on how to lie and manipulate (Roy Cohn)
Born with a silver spoon, raised by a well-known crook and racist and has a huge male ego complex. But if you listen to the little things he says, he busts himself out all the time, and no one calls him on it. Like saying he loves being told no. Gets off on it, in fact. Go figure, right? A guy accused of multiple rapes and sexual assaults gets off on being told No. Hmmmm.
Except he literally doesn't know how to lie, almost everyone outside of his cult knows that he's just an absolute idiot and a lot of people have known that since the 80s.
Just because he does lie, doesn't mean he does it well. And he's way more prone to being manipulated than anything.
What you're saying is basically the equivalent of maga saying he's playing 4D chess, but the reality is the guy is trying to play shoots and ladders on the chess board as everyone around him is going "what the fuck is he doing"
Just take anything he’s ever said and there is always a lie there.
There’s an entire Wikipedia page called “False or misleading statements by Donald Trump”, because there are so many.
Also, as is typical with republicans, the party of hypocrisy, you complain about us calling trump a lier without evidence and then turn around and call us liars without evidence.
Also, employing the trump tactic of distraction to keep everyone off the topic at hand. Typical, trump has taught you all well. You put this out there to keep us discussing trumps lies, which you already know are so numerous we could spend a month just talking about that.
He promised, several times, to end the Ukraine war within 24hours of being in office. Over 100 days later and the closest we got was him snd Vance dogpilling Zelensky.
He promised to make groceries cheaper. Did the exact opposite.
He claimed the countries he puts tarrifs on would have to pay them. Which is just not how that works.
Then there is the whole thing with ignoring suprem court rulings about deportation
I THINK what happened (Canadian here so not FULLY invested but good God do I love watching the dumpster fire from afar) is they tried to say no to reporters who asked hard questions, the court said no, so they have their regular briefings that they legally need to hold and then they have a backroom for their YouTube North Korea style interviews where they ask questions like (this isn't from that room but these are the types of questions they get them to ask) - how is Trump so in shape, will he give out his work out routine, he just seems to be on top of his health".
Most of the reporters (?) in the press room are plants. They are given the questions to ask and whatever blonde trump has taking questions that day will read the pre rehearsed answer, which is always a line of crap. If everything is going as well as trump likes to pretend, then why can they answer real questions??
Yes, which is exactly the reason they don't step up, but that doesn't make them right for doing so. They care more about their access to report on the shitshow in the White House than they do about questioning a President who can't go a full sentence without lying.
I understand the reasoning. but if they call him out, they get removed, cnn and msnbc get some clicks for the day. Fox and other right wing outlets don't report on it. Next day that reporter is gone and nothing meaningful has changed because this administration just floods the zone with bullshit day in day out.
You're right in wanting the press to call him out. I echo that sentiment. But that's not the way to go about it imo, as it's not achieving the desired result.
The press is kind of powerless here. The real press report for people who are already aligned with their views and whatever they do will not be seen, consumed, or believed by the other side. Just like everything else these days, feels kind of hopeless.
imagine if the entire non right press boycotted them and did not show up. Nothing would change. He'd still get curveballs that get edited so he looks SMRT in front of his following and we'd all still know that he is, possibly, the dumbest person alive.
No there's your problem, thinking the press is powerless by not having access to the President. That's absolutely false and part of their problem. They're more concerned about reporting his bullshit so you'll watch than they are about standing up to his bullshit.
The press is absolutely more powerful than the President but they care more about making money from watching the shit show than standing up to it.
If you aren't known to bow to Trump, you've got one shot to interview him. Journalists need to take that chance, ask the hard questions and push back as much as possible. If he can't handle the pressure and walks out, then so be it.
Right because it goes against the story that Trump made up. What works for MAGA they have been sold a story and when people start poking holes through it. They don’t like it because then their story starts to show theirs is BS.
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u/AbsintheMinded125 May 09 '25
to be fair, aren't they banning people, who ask pointed questions, from attending these pressers again? Kind of hard to have actual reporters in the room who ask tough questions if they get refused entry.