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Respect is earned. Give respect, get respect. Pretty simple really. If Trump didn't lie every time he opened his mouth he may not be challenged so often.
Correct. The media has never shown POTUS repsect, they get what they give.
The press shows Trump no respect. Whatever happened to when the President points to and calls on someone else for the next question, the previous one sits down and shuts up? The press is there to ask questions and report the answers. They have no right to stand there and debate or debunk the answer. They have no right to keep asking additional questions.
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Originally Posted by oceangaia
When Trump said that's enough and pointed to another reporter, and Acosta refused to hand over the mike to the intern, Trump should have simply repeated over and over "give her the microphone". After 3 or 4 times, asked security to remove Acosta from the room.
Are the American people not entitled to the respect of being told the truth at least some of the time instead of being treated like customers on a used car lot? Acosta called the President on a lie. This caravan may exist, and may be moving through Mexico but are they a clear and present danger? The President sent 5200 troops to the border with 2000 national guardsman already there. Isn't that kind of mobilization considered DEF CON 2?
This is absurd and an election day lie.
The President is in over his head and should pass power to Pence as the Constitution requires.
As I say, respect has to be earned. Trump hasn't earned it nor does he deserve it. How many past presidents have castigated the press like this one has, calling them the enemy of the people? Moderator cut: language
No, just no, not at a Presidential press conference. You seem confused and mistake this for a courtroom testimony or a deposition or an interrogation. Trump is the host and the moderator. He doesn't have to answer a question to a reporter's liking. He doesn't have to answer a question at all. He doesn't have to let reporters ask additional questions. This is his show, his rules. He doesn't have to "earn" anything. That's like saying a CNN anchor isn't entitled to respect on his own show from an invited guest, because he has been critical of the guest in the past. Or that when he invites a panel of guests, he has to put up with one guest refusing to follow the rules and crowding out the other guests.
Throwing chocolate milk on another is battery. Do you find that to be "harsh?" The law matters. You cannot strike and shove another person to get your way. Period.
Throwing chocolate milk on another is battery. Do you find that to be "harsh?" The law matters. You cannot strike and shove another person to get your way. Period.
Ok, so what about when Trump shoved the Prime Minister of Montenegro at the NATO meeting? Or is that different?
The press shows Trump no respect. Whatever happened to when the President points to and calls on someone else for the next question, the previous one sits down and shuts up? The press is there to ask questions and report the answers. They have no right to stand there and debate or debunk the answer. They have no right to keep asking additional questions.
The members of the White House press corps have every right to ask questions, to persist when those questions aren't answered, and to follow up and/or ask for clarification after an answer is given. That's what being a member of the White House press corps entails. That's why they are in that room. That's what the president should expect when he hosts a press conference.
As for the press showing no respect: Respect is earned, not given. Trump spends a good chunk of his press conferences berating the press corps. His ignorance and lack of understanding of news media and how they work, along with his treatment of the individual members of the press corps, is embarrassing, bordering on mortifying.
Trump's trouble is that he thinks everyone should be in love with him, and he thinks that means everyone will throw him softball questions and blindly accept and approve of everything he says. That may be the case with the people who attend his ego-building rallies, but that is not the case with the White House press corps, and that has never been with case with any U.S. president. Ever. Nor should it be. The job of the White House press corps is to report on the White House staff and their activities, not to massage the egos of White House's current occupants.
Correct. Video of an actual incident is frequently slowed in court so the jury can see what actually happened. And it's perfectly legal to do so.
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