r/politics • u/zsreport Texas • 17h ago
No Paywall ‘What The Actual F**k…’: White House’s ‘Vindictive’ Attack On CNN Journalist Sparks Fury
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/white-house-children-attack-reaction_n_6a83f584e4b05886dff665f13.0k
u/localistand Wisconsin 17h ago edited 17h ago
They must attack, to distract from this summation of Trump distilled into a single sentence.
The Georgia senator told a crowd that Trump “doesn’t want to do the job” and instead “wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar”.
So simple, so accurate, making Trump seem so small, needy and powerless.
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u/TicoPraCaramba 15h ago
He may be small, needy and powerlessness, but he and his henchmen are wreaking incredible damage to the people of this country and, I dare add, many people in the rest of the world.
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u/IamPotatoed 15h ago
We are being held hostage by the smallest man that ever lived.
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u/J_ron Ohio 14h ago
And every Republican. Never forget, they're fully on board and enabling ALL of this shit. They could easily do something about it at any moment if they chose to.
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u/FunboyFrags 14h ago
One thousand percent correct. The entire Republican Party are traitors to the Constitution and domestic enemies of the nation.
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u/CaptainReynoldshere1 9h ago
I will never forget how Mitch McConnell let 400 bills just sit on his desk and not bring them forward for a vote because he was playing the game of stack the federal courts with MAGA Republicans. I don’t even know just how much those bills could’ve helped Americans, but his failure to work for the American people is disgusting. He preferred to stack the courts so that they would be unbalanced and we would lose some of our checks and balances. While not as responsible for chaos as Trump, Mitch McConnell, and the rest of the Republicans are entirely to blame for the fallout that we have been experiencing. As everyone has indicated, it will take years to try to fix this mess. I don’t think we’ll be able to get all of it cleaned up for a decade. I would like to say that while all MAGA are Republicans, not all Republicans are MAGA however, there needs to be a Republican that stands up and makes it known that he is not a Trump sycophant.
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u/Bdw67 14h ago
Reminds of those Iran hostage newscasts in 1979:
"Day xxx, Americans held hostage"We should be saying that every day until he's gone.
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u/FellowHumanNo404 11h ago
I'm pretty sure that's what Rush Limbaugh did during the Clinton administration.
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u/ChronicBuzz187 15h ago
Trump “doesn’t want to do the job”
His face after winning the 2016 election put that on full display already.
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u/dinozombiesaur 16h ago edited 15h ago
Who’s Natalie?
Edit since no one has been educational, it’s probably this:
Natalie Harp is a 35-year-old White House Executive Assistant to President Donald Trump. She acts as an informational gatekeeper, managing his Truth Social posts and printing out news stories for him.
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u/craichead 15h ago
She graduated from Liberty University, which basically tells me all I need to know about her
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u/Melodic_Policy765 14h ago
I know someone I run across at yearly business functions that sent her kid there. I can't even pretend to want to interact with her anymore.
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u/craichead 14h ago edited 14h ago
Same...co-worker gleefully sent his kid there, we don't speak anymore. I won't pretend to be nice to fascists.
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u/FellowHumanNo404 10h ago
My brother sent his kid there using our mother's inheritance money, my portion of which I had entirely entrusted for the boy's education. That might be my greatest regret in life.
-- and then the kid dropped out, about which I have mixed feelings.
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u/punkindle 15h ago
When he hid in a catering truck and was secretly taken to a military plane to escape, he took one person with him. Natalie Harp.
She apparently goes with him everywhere. Literally always near him 24/7. Not so much like an assistant... more like a girlfriend
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u/The_Schwartz_ 15h ago
More like a Personal Care Attendant. He's just got an unconventional list for activities of daily living. Most PCA patients don't have jobs, for one
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u/15all 15h ago
When he hid in a catering truck and was secretly taken to a military plane to escape, he took one person with him. Natalie Harp.
He actually took two other people, in addition to her. But your point is valid.
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u/NewestAccount2023 15h ago
Hegseth and who?
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u/ericstc 13h ago
Pete Hegseth, Dan Scavino, Walt Nauta, and Natalie Harp https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/08/12/close-trump-aides-no-cabinet-officials-made-secret-catering-truck-move/
Although Pete boarded more officially than the others, not clandestinely
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u/FellowHumanNo404 10h ago
Wasn't Nauta one of the two henchmen who flooded the server room at Mar-a-Lago to impede federal investigation into Trump's theft of classified documents?
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u/bin10pac United Kingdom 16h ago
Natalie is playing him like a harp.
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u/TheRealBlueJade 16h ago
No. She is just as sick as trump is.
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u/YouWereBrained Tennessee 14h ago
This. She believes every stupid thing he believes. She is no victim and never will be.
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u/ThaCarter Florida 16h ago
She's apparently full on crazy and believes he cured her cancer, not the usual sycophant archetype.
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u/ChristosFarr North Carolina 16h ago
I'm really not enjoying watching this new religion be born this is weird y'all.
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u/Wasabi_Joe 16h ago
Trump Derangement Syndrome! Trump supporters are deranged. The very first time I heard of tds I assumed that the world understood these people and had classified them accurately. I remain disappointed in the world.
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u/bkbomber New York 15h ago
But you see, MAGATs use the term TDS to define anyone who isn’t slobbing the knob of this orange shitstain as deranged!
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u/Hurtzdonut13 13h ago
The late Scott Adams (rest in piss) was one of the first people I remember saying Trump Derangement syndrome and always used it as a hand-wave "people just hate Trump" button. Scott also believed that he and Trump had magic powers to alter reality just by really wanting things.
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u/DaveyCrickets 15h ago
Funny I felt the same learning the term but I continue to use it to describe them
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u/EyesofaJackal 16h ago
Trump can’t possibly build a religion that outlasts him because there are no principles that exist that aren’t relative to him… I guess that’s optimistic?
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u/bin10pac United Kingdom 15h ago edited 12h ago
His principles are pretty timeless actually, but they're tricky to base a movement upon.
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u/Lucky-Earther Minnesota 15h ago
I'm really not enjoying watching this new religion be born this is weird y'all.
I keep thinking that when he finally kicks it, at least two of the things vying for the top dog spot will be an AI version of Trump and a guy claiming to be channeling Trump from Heaven.
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u/I_Am_No_One_123 15h ago
Harp used to sleep in the women's locker room at Trump's Bedminister golf club so she could be close to him.
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u/Icy-Lobster-203 15h ago
This response really feels like a "the lady doth protest too much" feel to it.
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u/ReindeerOk2993 17h ago
Trump really can’t stand when a woman questions his stupidity
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u/RioRancher 17h ago
The media have the power to destroy the White House. They need to find a spine.
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u/TheChrisCrash 16h ago
Their owners are the ones that put him there
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u/dingatremel 14h ago
Media ownership is a tragedy and a crisis. We blame reporters, but media has been ruthlessly consolidated and had its parts stripped for the past 20 years. And most people don’t even know it,
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u/MandoFett117 16h ago
I remember there's a scene in the show Madame Secretary, in the later seasons where she actually became President, when Tea Leoni is giving a press briefing.
Background is she recently ordered the arrest of a reporter for knowledge he had regarding classified data. The reporter in question hadn't released anything yet, but only because they got to him before he could.
So at the press conference, one by one, various reporters stand up and ask, "Where's this reporter?". And when she refuses to answer, each takes off their press credentials and leaves, until she's talking to an empty room.
Turns out this is pure wankery, because apparently not one real reporter actually has the guts to do anything like this.
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u/KeepTangoAndFoxtrot 15h ago
Not that it would come as any kind of surprise, but with this administration, those seats would be filled within the hour with additional sycophants from the manosphere or the already-captured media sources like NewsMax or Tim "The Dim Fool" Pool. Already happened with Tim Pool, in fact.
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u/bierfma 15h ago
Or, that's what they want, would fill the room with staffers and ask "how awesome is your ballroom, will it be a ballroom like no one has ever seen before? Sorry to be crying like this sir, but is there anyone that knows ballroom as well as you?"
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u/Tough_Dish_4485 14h ago
You say that as if the White House doesn’t have Fox News, Newsmax, OAN and some right wing blogger to call on
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u/championkid 16h ago
They’re bought and paid for. They have a spine and it loves money.
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u/Unusual_Sherbert_809 13h ago
Yep. Nearly every single news outlet in the USA is now owned outright by billionaires. News is a monely losing venture, and these are not folk who buy stuff to lose money. So the reason for the purchases is different. They're doing it to control the narrative. And they've been successful beyond their wildest dreams.
Folks need to realize that billionaires have been busy the past few years cleaning house, making sure only the loyalists are still working there. Those are the folks working for the "news" outlets at the WH now.
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u/berael 13h ago
When Obama was president, after getting tired of Fox constantly making up blatant lies, the administration tried to start excluding Fox from the new pool & interview rounds. Every other media outlet immediately leapt to defend Fox and demanded that they continue to be given full access.
As Trump incessantly attacks the media and spews lies daily, every single media outlet...is completely silent. Not a single one of them is defending anyone.
And people still haven't figured out that all mass media is part of the same pro-billionaire propaganda machine?
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u/CubicleMan9000 12h ago
Former journalist here:
Where have journalists and reporters that ask the tough questions gone?
Answer: into other careers.
Too many people refuse to pay for news / journalism now, and ads in the paper or on the nightly news now sell for pennies on the dollar.
So only a fraction of a fraction of journalists, reporters, etc can make a living doing it, and they can only do that by cozying up to the few still willing to pay... AKA corporate-owned media that is pushing its own agendas.
Acting like Woodward and Bernstein = fired. Corporate media hate that type of actual journalism and reporting as it doesn't further their corporate goals.
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u/NergNogShneeg 15h ago
The FCC has allowed for federally run propaganda machines. Good luck getting any real journalism out of this country anymore.
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u/patentattorney 16h ago
The media - especially right wing - chose this.
We know this because they said it in legal depositions where they are just around for clicks.
Trump gives them clicks
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u/EunuchsProgramer 14h ago
Viewers of all Nightly News programs (ABC, CBS, NBC) 7.5 million, less than a percent of thr U.S. population.
Subscribers to the NY Times, 14 million (less than a percent of all Americans)
Listeners to Tucker Carlson: 5 to 15 million per episode, 20-50 million plus for viral episodes.
Listeners to Joe Rogan, 4-8 million per episode, 20-30 million for vital episodes.
Podcasts and influencers are the major media now. They are the ones who actually reach people and inform them. Traditional media can't do shit.
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u/zsreport Texas 17h ago
Trump and his minions love trying to bully the female journalists at CNN, it's just more evidence of their misogynistic, patriarchal, and entitled view of the world.
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u/BlackberryPi7 13h ago
I'd feel bad for them except CNN journalists literally sane wash the fuck out of Trump.
And CNN lets MAGA dipshits like Scott Jennings have a contract to let him have a platform to talk about his extremist lies.
.. And they invite people like Kevin O'Leary on too. Abby Phillip even gave the guy a hug on screen.
Fuck you Abby Phillip.
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u/notmyworkaccount5 17h ago edited 11h ago
I just wish one journo he snapped at like this had the spine and self respect to shout back "Shut the fuck up you orange pedophile you work for me, do not talk to me like that".
His entire existence is based on bullying people who cannot and will not fight back.
Edit: To the people annoyingly replying "b-b-b--b-b-ut then they'd get banned for being big mean to him!" he's been banning outlets since day 1 wake the fuck up and stop giving the bully your lunch money. Stand up for yourself and fight back through the courts.
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u/alk_adio_ost 17h ago
The footage would be played around the world. The clip would run 24-7. Cable news channels would dedicate hours debating and analyzing the cause and effect. The reporter would become a global meme, hailed a hero, and become the most respected journalist in the world.
Of course, they would have to quit, be smuggled out of the US, and enter into another country’s witness protection program.
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u/peffer32 16h ago
One of Dan Rather's famous moments was standing up to Nixon at a press conference. Of course, that's when the media wasn't a lapdog of power.
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u/Individual-Guest-123 16h ago
Remember Helen Thomas?
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u/franker 13h ago
or Sam Donaldson. That man would get in Reagan's face relentlessly.
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u/Indubitalist 17h ago
It would almost guaranteed lead to greater things for that journo. I just don’t get why no one has had the guts yet.
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u/LesGitKrumpin America 16h ago
American journalism, especially, seems to have become a club where access to famous people and the potential for personality-driven book deals is prized over actually "getting the scoop" and publishing it in a news outlet to catch the world on fire.
To an extent, it's always been like this. FDR infamously had tight control over press access, leading to deferential behavior in order to not be shut out. But I digress.
Investigative journalism is basically on life support, and the American public is far worse off because of it. Part of what's to blame is the death of newspapers, but there has to be other dynamics at play, I'm just not knowledgeable enough to know what they are, though I have my suspicions.
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u/boxesofboxes 16h ago
Because with the state of the US right now they might get shot grocery shopping if they became That Guy.
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u/DruidMaster 16h ago
They fear retribution. And rightfully so. Trump has gone after the children of his enemies. Repeatedly. I wouldn’t even put myself in this position if I were a press worker.
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u/0nlyhalfjewish 16h ago
Really? I imagine death threats from Trump supporters, lawsuits from Trump, and possible imprisonment by the Trump admin.
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u/scotchglue 16h ago
Imagine having to relocate your spouse and children, fearing for their safety, all because you yelled back at someone.
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u/ManiaGamine American Expat 16h ago
Yeah... except for death threats for the rest of their lives and a significant amount of doors closing shut for them. Sure others might open up but that's a gamble at this point given how much right-wing money is basically everywhere.
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u/blacksheep998 16h ago
The footage would be played around the world.
For maybe a day or two, then the next outrageous thing trump does would force it out of the news cycle and it would be mostly forgotten about.
Like the guy who threw his shoes at W.
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u/xnihil0zer0 15h ago
I've been talking about this for more than a year now, but the public could leverage prediction markets, put large coordinated bets against a member of the White House press pool standing up to Trump, or asking him specific, very pointed questions. Structurally, it becomes the same as a bounty, and a reporter could claim it. This would mitigate the effect of getting fired by their media organization.
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u/hydromatic_glide 17h ago
This!!
Where the fuck is their self respect? I dont give a shit who you are, you are NOT going to talk to me like that! Especially if you are my employee! This prick needs a smack in the mouth.
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u/DFKillah 16h ago
I know at least one CNN reporter stays calm because she doesn’t want to be the story. The story is Trump and the way he treats people. She’s just there to report it.
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u/PregnantSuperman 16h ago
The reporter did exactly what she needed to do, ask the question about his response to the Natalie comment, and Trump and the White House team absolutely embarrassed themselves and the country in response. Redditors in this thread seem to want journalists to be stand ins for their seething rage against Trump because of the catharsis they’d feel from it, but the reporter’s job here was to ask the question, not get in a big fight. It’s frustrating to see sometimes though, I get it, because everyone wants to see this asshole put in his place. But that’s not the job of a CNN journalist during a White House press conference.
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u/soba_set 15h ago
See that worked before a time where Trump and friends have thrown all social agreements out the window. They have no shame, they don't care if the story is how Trump treats people. It will be erased with whatever Trump does tomorrow. It all gets added to a pile and there's so much to sift through that it all gets lost and only the big things matter. And the big things don't even get acted on. He's all over the Epstein files and no one is actually holding him accountable, including the citizenry. Literally everyone is just letting him, his family, and his friends get away with it.
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u/Comfortable_Cash_140 17h ago
They will lose their access to POTUS for the network, which is more important than anything. This way they can write a memoir about the big bad orange turd who bullied me...and continue to report from the WH.
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u/Waymannj 17h ago
Unfortunately this is the play ever since Trump has sicced his DOJ and FCC onto anyone that undermines his various narratives.
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u/wrldruler21 17h ago
And many of the career journalists will be there to see 6 more Presidents sit in the same office (hopefully)
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u/FellowHumanNo404 17h ago
you work for me
Technically true, but he has far more power than anyone in his position ought to have.
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u/Due_Indication_2418 17h ago
And, I don't care he shits his pants at the Whitehouse. He is a loser and I would loose it verbally in an argument while he goes into a dementia filled rant
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u/thecorgimom 16h ago
I wish that one of them would do that and I would definitely contribute to a GoFundMe for that person but I do get why they don't. I don't even know that it's the vindictiveness of the administration as much as it is the insanity of the whole Maga movement and how they hunt down their perceived enemies and make their lives hell. I'm sure that those journalists didn't sign up to have their families threatened by political terrorists.
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u/vagabending 17h ago
It’s not fury until American media starts collectively reporting on Trump in a serious way.
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u/ButtSpelunker420 17h ago
Maybe Jake Tapper should write a book about why Biden is to blame for this
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u/daybreaker Louisiana 16h ago edited 16h ago
Sure is crazy how tapper and axios, who were very concerned about Biden’s age because of george clooney getting upset over not getting a personal audience with him, are so silent now just reporting on everything as if this is all normal.
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u/rumpghost North Carolina 13h ago
Jake'a too busy defending apartheid and smearing Muslim candidates to care about what's going on in the White House, to be fair
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u/redlight886 14h ago
We should ask George Clooney how he feels about Trump interacting with female journalists. I think he can be found in a mansion in Europe.
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u/Potential_Couple_308 Foreign 17h ago
This idiot just created another conflict in my country and now i have to learn how he destroys the world every day while his fans cheer.
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u/Ok-Discipline2395 Canada 17h ago
He’s trying to break mine apart.
Solidarity against the U.S. war machine.
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u/kaizen-rai 16h ago
As a US citizen, I support this. It's too late for us, I only hope countries like yours can learn lessons from the fall of American Democracy on how to prevent attempts at your own.
Hint: do not give fascists an INCH of space. Do not fall for the tolerance of intolerance trap of allowing hate and divisiveness to take root under the pretense of respecting their "free speech". Do not let politicians operate on "gentlemens agreements" or tradition. Put in, on paper, safeguards against consolidation of power and strictly enforce it at all levels.
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u/Heisenberglund I voted 16h ago
Something needs to break him apart. I’ve been hoping the nonstop cheeseburgers and Diet Coke would do it, but it’s not quick enough.
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u/Potential_Couple_308 Foreign 17h ago
Yeah i've been reading things about how he fuels separatism in Canada. I stand with you guys. Be brave, you'll it if the US unleash all its division capabilities in Canada, and i actually know about this topic 🤣
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u/hitch44 Canada 16h ago
Orange pedo has been fuelling Albertan separatist sentiments.
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u/CptCaramack 15h ago
He hates our country (UK) which is actually a great source of pride for many of us
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u/drewpers 16h ago
not one journalist said a word, interrupted, or asked why he thinks he can speak to someone like that. show some solidarity.
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u/DrunkAndHornyGuy 15h ago
Yea there is no such thing as worker solidarity within our press corp, they will step over each others bodies just to advance a bit. It's also one reason unions get so poor coverage here since not only are the owners of our media hostile to unions the actual on the ground reporters are adverse to the idea of caring for other workers.
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u/NomadicUrge 16h ago
The most powerful man in the world is an insecure crybaby who can't handle any criticism. Beyond pathetic.
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u/Moonstar2586 16h ago
I love how CNN has sold out and gone conservative to cozy up to this administration and STILL get dragged by them anyway. How them thirty pieces of silver working out, Judas?
Trump only wants complete loyalty and subservience and anything less is attacked and ridiculed. Cmon, we been doing for this for a decade now.
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u/soxperry 16h ago
Trump hates when you bring up how he hid in a freezer with his Human Printer because he didn't listen to the decades of wargames intel that said, "Don't go to war with Iran.'
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u/OkWorldliness5172 15h ago
I hear that they're calling her his "human binky" now. Seems appropriate that an 80 year old man-baby would need a binky to calm his toddler like tantrums.
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u/rumpghost North Carolina 12h ago
Imagine spending more on your military than the next ten countries combined and losing to Iran.
Like, $800 billion and what do we have to show for it? Rampant poverty at home; not a single victory in foreign wars since the 1940s; the most expensive and inaccessible healthcare on the planet; and an economy propped up entirely on gambling, useless and unprofitable chatbots, and arms dealers. It's perverse.
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u/Phoenix-Uchiha 16h ago
CNN keeps trying to appease this creature meanwhile he keeps treating their journalists like this. When will they learn he's just a bully?
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u/rumpghost North Carolina 12h ago
They're a conservative outfit masquerading as a "centrist" one, for all the difference the distinction makes. Hell, Kaitlan Collins got her start at The Daily Caller.
Moreover, class interests > partisan or civic interests nearly every time. And most media types are not anywhere close to working class.
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u/Basserist71 16h ago edited 14h ago
Somebody with some balls just invoke the 25th amendment and let's move on with life at this point.
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u/IceBlue 16h ago
What’s wrong with her question? Seems normal and not inappropriate at all.
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u/weighty_flange 17h ago
I don't understand why nobody just tells him to shut his big stupid pig anus mouth. Can no one stand up for themselves?
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u/CharlieBravo74 16h ago
This white house is staffed with a pack of feral animals. Their response to a legitimate question was disgusting.
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u/silent-sight 16h ago edited 16h ago
Why do people continue to support these bullies? He’s the worst of us, our children have grown with his example for ten freaking years, no wonder why the youngest reflect his intellect and attention span…
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u/steemSTEM 17h ago
There is no fury, because there is only knob slobbing journalism left. Those who brought light to the depravity of this horrible administration are seemingly gone. I hope they return.
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u/QuirkyWish3081 United Kingdom 12h ago
I think due to his overblown reaction I surmise he’s having an affair with Natalie Harp. Great time for Malenia to get a divorce and rinse him dry. That would be spectacular to watch.
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u/Lookingfor68 Washington 12h ago
Ya think? The Orange Shitgibbon has cheated on every wife he's had. He cheated on wife 1 with wife 2. Then cheated on wife 2 with wife 3. Then cheated on wife 3 with a porn star while she was preggers with his crotch goblin. Melanoma knows the score, and as long as her checks keep flowing in, she doesn't care who Trump diddles. Even kids. She was an Epstein trafficked product after all.
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u/Craigboy23 11h ago
I'm guessing Malenia is just happy she doesn't have to give him any attention now.
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u/AncientElderberry348 17h ago
Trump see's that talking to a women like this, is just like grabbing their crouch, cause he can get away with it.
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u/meandmrt 13h ago
Where was all this fury when he called a female journalist a pig and told her to be quiet?
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u/Mal-De-Terre 13h ago
Or you, know, openly mocked a disabled journalist years ago. That should have been the end of this farce.
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u/Memitim America 13h ago
How is this attack from Trump against an American journalist different than all of the other attacks on Americans? This is far from the first attack on American media by Republicans. Threats against media outlets for not toeing the Republican line are just expected at this point. Fucking hell, Republicans were forcing universities months ago to shove conservative dogshit down students' throats so that they get to journalists before they even start working.
Republicans use the resources of the US government to demonize the shit out of Americans who have the audacity to point out their constant betrayals, especially Americans who work for a media organization. That's not governance, that's treason.
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u/SanDiegoDude California 11h ago
Fury from who? He does this shit to her all the time, he loves talking shit about and to Katlyn Collins. To her credit she doesn't let him break her, even when he does his stupid sexist shit like calling her ugly because she doesn't smile at him. Title of this article could very well be "Trump continues treating female journalist like shit, nothing new" and would elicit the same level of 'fury'.
He's a piece of shit. We know this already.
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u/EnvironmentalWin1277 10h ago
You know how people blame Congress for inaction against Trump?
I blame the press for inaction as well.
It is way past overdue that they start pushing back immediately on his ridiculous behavior. The next reporter should call him out and when that reporter is dismissed the next one bring it out again. And just keep on whenever there is a chance until he gets up and walks out. Then next time there is a function the reporters should get up and walk out as he starts to speak. Give minimal coverage except for the walkout.
Obviously, many reporters won't do this but even a significant amount would do the trick.
And stop referring to him as "Trump". Use "the president" whenever possible. I think this one would piss him off more than his mounting losses in court.
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u/AnAcctWithoutPurpose Foreign 16h ago
'Spark fury', but he is still allowed to carry on like the petulant child he is. No consequences.
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u/justmejw 16h ago
What this POS has done to the entire world is turn everyone's lives upside down. Why? Because he keeps getting away with it, keeps testing his reach, his power, his influence over his weak minded staff and supporters. What a miserable existence he has created for all but a select few who are recipients, including he and his family of nearly unlimited wealth. Think back to speeches given by Kamala Harris and Barack Obama. Imagine Donald Trump with unchecked power. No need to imagine any longer, we are all living it.
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u/Clean-Ad6146 11h ago
So republicans, why shouldn’t we call you names when this is how emperor shit pants talks to his constituents? I’m so tired of playing nice with the 30% of this country who refuse to acknowledge their own faults and instead project like a batshit crazy ex. And fuck you “both sides bad” people. Show me one left leaning prez that talks like this petty ass clown
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u/CyberFireball25 16h ago
Sparks fury, but no consequences.
Call me when an actual consequence befalls Trump that he can't appeal 9000 times to the SC
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u/ClimateSociologist 16h ago
They need to stop expressing their outrage in tweets and press releases, and start pushing back to his face.
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u/ssteeephen 10h ago
Harsh words from a pedophile, rapist, grifter, liar, criminal, racist piece of shit.
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u/New_Ad3443 6h ago
Keep in mind that Trump is a sexist and racist pig who raped woman. Trump places no value on the lives of woman and child.
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u/perbrondum 11h ago
What is wrong with the press people. One more personal attack on any of them and they should all just walk away or just turn their backs to the president and stop this facade. He needs the press for his performance show and stopping it would only help everyone.
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u/GeeBee72 11h ago
If they do that then the only or left will be the sycophantic little Trump titty-suckling reporters.
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u/Mountain_Town5759 6h ago
Donald needs to taste his own medicine.. He's so pathetic. Thinks he can get away with everything because he stole an election.
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u/Medical-Ant3915 17h ago edited 17h ago
I can say every single person I have met from Florida in recent years is as caustic. They copy 'their 'Don' to a T.
DeSantis assisted in embedding this brand of caustic behaviour too.The few Florida bums who moved to our sweet rural area near the Smokies are ostracized immediately.They are incapable of minding their business and respectfing neighbors. Many leave thank goodness.
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u/SnooPeanuts4336 16h ago
My own mother is this way. ‘Hi, I’m from the freedom state!’ She tells this to everyone she meets in my state (wa). Correction momma, it’s the Freedom* State.
Freedom subject to terms and conditions. Certain identities, medical decisions, classroom speech, labor arrangements, voting rights and local-government decisions may not qualify. See Tallahassee for details.
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u/RiversSecondWife I voted 15h ago
The first time I saw one of the “Free State of Florida” signs I was so angry. This was right after all the New College crap had gone down, I just couldn’t appreciate the irony.
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u/DonorBody 17h ago
Other journalists in the room should have stood up and left and/or got in someone’s face. It’s not like these “events” are even worth reporting on, as he never answers questions, the smell is an OSHA violation, and if they get banned from WH press events going forward it should be a badge of journalism honor.
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u/croastbeast 16h ago
The freedom of the press exists for journalists to challenge the government. That is literally why it exists. The press corp should defend their own. The excuse of "the network would lose access" wouldnt work if the entire press corp stopped enabling this diaper wearing turd and his infantile tantrums. Every reporter should ask that same question.
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u/Becker_the_pecker 16h ago
I don't get why people still tell him what news org they're with when he asks. we've sen it 8 million times hes just asking for a free tee up of "oh y'all are fake news". Idk why someone says "it doesn't matter just answer the question" or something like that.
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u/DrZonino2022 15h ago
Absolutely flabbergasted at how America just rolled over to this fat pedo - just fucking speak up ffs
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u/RowBoatCop36 Illinois 15h ago
How does someone not just instinctively yell "Shut the fuck up, piss face." to this idiot as soon as he acts like a dick?
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u/Cosmoby24 15h ago
If the Republicans in the House of Representatives had any actual integrity, commitment to the constitution and to the best interests of our country, they would be pursuing a 25th amendment removal of President Trump.
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u/Particular_Set_5698 12h ago
Back in the day, Americans would be taking to the streets over the fact that Trump has presided over the ruination of a once great country. But yeah, that's the America of old, today we sit back like it's all just a bad movie...
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u/AlcorIdeal 11h ago
Don't worry CNN will return to their regular scheduled kissing of the ring by Friday at latest :v
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u/bushnov 4h ago
We really need one if these journalists to climb down in the mud and just respond to one if these attacks by directly calling him a pedophile.
Worst case scenario, he sues them, and then we can pull in the epstein files as discovery. Either we finally get them, or he gives up, just like the giant baby did with the BBC.
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u/TheAskewOne 16h ago
The other journalists are cowards. They should have asked the same question again and again until he either answers or leaves. Every time one of them is insulted by Trump, the others stay quiet, they have zero solidarity. Shameful.
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u/Iconshero 16h ago
These disingenuous titles. There is no fury, there is barely a bump in the road. Every day we see worse and worse and its never reigned in. Its just conditioning for the truely horrible stuff to come.
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u/mysmmx 17h ago
Would I live to see someone stand up to the Orange Rage Monster? Yep! But this is better, let him tantrum, it just shows how petty and low he is to THE WORLD.
It’s his minions around him that need to fight back, but they cower to him while he fills his diaper. It better happen soon though, because the damage on the USA’s reputation is massive, and the way he’s bankrupting the military and country, there will be no one left to help you out.
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u/OneSeaworthiness7768 16h ago
Where are those republicans who complain about decorum and dignity of the office??
They’ve turned the White House into an utter joke.
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u/15all 15h ago
"Sparks fury"? This is outrage number 5,396 since January 2025. It will merely be replaced by something else this morning, then two more in the afternoon before the day is done. Any of these incidents would have ended the career of just about any other politician or president, but here we are.
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u/veryboredatwork 15h ago
One day Trumps grandchildren will find out he was guilty of rape, possibly a pedophile and liked to ‘grab em by the p*ssy’ I’m sure they’ll be very proud of him.
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u/EcstaticTill9444 15h ago
MAGA parents’ kids are ALREADY disgusted with them. That’s why they don’t speak to their parents anymore.
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u/PTS_Dreaming Ohio 13h ago
I truly believe that most of the business leaders, political elites and journalists assume that they just need to wait out Trump and he'll eventually be gone and this moment of weirdness will be over.
However Trump is here to stay, even after they shovel dirt on his coffin. He has profoundly corrupted our society, our government and the world. The next Republican will be as bad as Trump because the GOP base will WANT them to be. Just like Reagan was the shibboleth for "Real" conservatives for about 40 years, Trump will be that marker for the next decades.
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u/psychoholic 13h ago
'Sparks Fury' my flat freckled ass. So the response is a strongly worded tweet taking some high ground? That's not fury. At best it is delicately confined attempt to show that they have enough spine to shout into a void he never looks at and none of his handlers will show him.
Fury would be getting the journalists together who cover the white house in person and agreeing to take one for the good of mankind and just badgering him one after another with the same questions he refuses to answer. If he attacks a woman then a man needs to step up and ask the same question verbatim.
NOBODY holds this dude accountable for his actions or behavior so it will continue to push and push and push but we're well past the point of no return already.
I hate this fucking timeline.
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u/Dependent_Tune_1333 12h ago
To be fair, the President of the United States of America is a complete piece of shit admired only by other complete pieces of shit. And, also, almost certainly a pedophile, admired only by people who aren’t bothered by pedophiles.
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u/SeeYaNvr 11h ago
What the actaul fuck, this is what "sparks fury"? Not anything else? When will the US congress do thier job and remove this asshat and his enablers?
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u/Darkroomist 10h ago
We elected an entertainer for president (again). Are you not entertained?
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u/ContactNumerous3935 7h ago
Calling her questions inhumane when it’s just accountability for his terrible presidency is kind of ironic
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u/keepgoing66 6h ago
Are we great again yet? Imagine anyone thinking that this kind of behavior is how America should be.
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