A Jewish Reporter Got To Ask Trump A Question. It Didn't Go Well.

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(02-17-2017, 01:07 PM)CageTheBengal Wrote: Did anyone else see this? I got the pleasure of watching it live and it was pretty ugly to see Trump silence reporters as soon as he saw the direction the question was going. It wasn't that way with just Turx it happened throughout the whole press conference, as soon as he got wind that the question wasn't "friendly" he'd interrupt them and "answer" the question with mindless non-sense rambling that made zero sense. Multiple times during the press conference he is talking about Hillary Clinton and the election still, it's absolutely pathetic.

It was literally impossible for him to understand what these people were asking because he hardly let them finish a question.

Can anyone find a legitimate reason to excuse this?






https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/us/politics/trump-press-conference-jake-turx.html?ref=politics

I didn't see the encounter in question, but based on this article, it sounds as if Trump thought the reporter was asking a loaded question or one that was implying Trump was anti-Semitic. On one hand, can you blame him for responding that way, if he did? Trump has been accused of just about every -ism short of ageism, none of which have been proven definitively, so you can sort of understand him not wanting to go there.

On the other hand, Trump should really wait until at least one question is asked before jumping in and not answering it.

To be fair, most politicians and presidents don't really answer the questions they're asked. They dance around the answer, particularly the more difficult to answer ones, and make it seem like they're answering when, in fact, they're just trying to obfuscate things so you'll forget the question they were asked. Clearly something Trump does not know how to do.