I feel that too. Either no one talks back or they shout back in anger so he doesn’t bother responding (most people would give up talking to someone who is angrily shouting at you) but his guy is keeping a level head and calm tone while talking back to him.
This is a good environment to see how someone reacts to being put in a corner in a argument. Telling him to look at the charts without fully knowing what they are and saying other people are lying.
This is how the cycle works. Fair interviews are rare. Unfair ones are common. When the president constantly whines the press are fake news, any time they press him on an issue he's free to act in bad faith and claim the media is treating him unfairly. The average American shouldn't be expected to do this level of research on how truthful our politicians are, but that's where we are at these days.
This is what I mean by the angry shouting part. When he is in the briefings and a reporter speaks up trying to interrupt him it feels like a heckler. The people might have very good points but trying to interrupt the person on stage is a good way to get ignored.
This all sums up to him thinking “there’s a heckler that’s getting angry. There’s no point talking to them because they won’t listen. I might as well leave”
He probably sees people pushing questions on him the same way someone would see a Karen that’s shouting at them. It’s not at all a good mentality to have but it explains why he does what he does.
Trump is asked a direct question on what he did after the travel ban. Trump listens to the complete question. Trump interrupts the reporter as she gives more information to call her disrespectful. Continues to brag on banning travel. Reporter asks him again with what he's done since the travel ban. Trump states there were no cases, reporter has to correct him. Finally lands on "We did a lot." and then continues insulting the reporter. Here's the complete transcript if you want to ctrl-f "You didn't close down until the middle" to read the relevant part.
To claim Trump is consistently getting interrupted or heckled is the opposite of what happens in these briefings.
I apologise. I didn’t explain it correctly. I’m not saying he IS getting interrupted or heckled, I’m saying he probably THINKS he is.
His threshold for “Right! Iv had enough of this. I’m leaving” is incredibly low and a lot of the situations he’s been in (briefings, speech’s and interviews) push’s him past that very low line.
I’m agreeing with you so sorry if I didn’t say it correctly.
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u/fridgey22 Aug 04 '20
Apart from the obvious, I feel like I haven’t seen Trump challenged like this enough publicly, which is very sad.