Trump's press conference 2017/2/16 was the saddest thing

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While talking about Obamacare:
Trump said:
We’ve begun preparing to repeal and replace Obamacare. Obamacare is a disaster, folks. It is’s disaster. I know you can say, oh, Obamacare. I mean, they fill up our alleys with people that you wonder how they get there, but they are not the Republican people our that representatives are representing.

I guess you just govern for Republicans.
 
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The transcript is garbled for this question, and it is very important to read it:
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Some have tried to say that Trump was "defending" himself from unfair criticism. But no president has ever gone on these kinds of tirades when faced with criticism, fair or unfair. Trump is a snowflake — easily offended by the faintest suggestion that he is not as great as he has made himself appear. The irony is that many of his supporters on the alt-right are fond of using "snowflake" as an insult for liberals, apparently not realising that they are supporting a man that embodies the word.
 
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Plants and factories are already starting to move back into the United States, and big league — Ford, General Motors, so many of them. I’m making this presentation directly to the American people, with the media present, which is an honor to have you

We have had great conversations with the United Kingdom, and meetings. Israel, Mexico, Japan, China and Canada, really, really productive conversations.

We’ve even developed a new council with Canada to promote women’s business leaders and entrepreneurs.

We’ve withdrawn from the job-killing disaster known as Trans Pacific Partnership. We’re going to make trade deals but we’re going to have one on one deals, bilateral. We’re going to have one on one deals.

We’ve directed the elimination of regulations that undermine manufacturing and call for expedited approval of the permits needed for America and American infrastructure and that means plant, equipment, roads, bridges, factories.

We’ve imposed a hiring freeze on non-essential federal workers. We’ve imposed a temporary moratorium on new federal regulations.

We’ve issued a game-changing new rule that says for each one new regulation, two old regulations must be eliminated

And I want regulations because I want safety, I want environmental - all environmental situations to be taken properly care

We’ve stood up for the men and women of law enforcement, directing federal agencies to ensure they are protected from crimes of violence. We’ve directed the creation of a task force for reducing violent crime in America,

We’ve ordered the Department of Homeland Security and Justice to coordinate on a plan to destroy criminal cartels coming into the United States with drugs.

We’ve undertaken the most substantial border security measures in a generation to keep our nation and our tax dollars safe. And are now in the process of beginning to build a promised wall on the southern border

We’ve ordered a crackdown on sanctuary cities that refuse to comply with federal law and that harbor criminal aliens, and we have ordered an end to the policy of catch and release on the border. No more release. No matter who you are,

Jobs have already started to surge. Since my election, Ford announced it will abandon its plans to build a new factory in Mexico, and will instead invest $700 million in Michigan, creating many, many jobs.

Fiat Chrysler announced it will invest $1 billion in Ohio and Michigan, creating 2,000 new American jobs. They were with me a week ago. You know you were here.

General Motors likewise committed to invest billions of dollars in its American manufacturing operation, keeping many jobs here that were going to leave. And if I didn’t get elected, believe me, they would have left. And these jobs and these things that I’m announcing would never have come here.

Intel just announced that it will move ahead with a new plant in Arizona that probably was never going to move ahead with. And that will result in at least 10,000 American jobs.

Walmart announced it will create 10,000 jobs in the United States just this year because of our various plans and initiatives. There will be many, many more, many more, these are a few that we’re naming.​
 
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The transcript is garbled for this question, and it is very important to read it:
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Ah, that wasn't even from this particular conference, actually. I believe that was from this weekend.

In this one, when an ultra-orthodox Jewish reporter asked him what his plans were to deal with the rising anti-semitic attacks, he told the Jewish reporter to sit down (and to be "quiet"), and proceeded to go on a rant about how he was the least anti-semitic guy, and the least racist person (while in the same presser, telling a black reporter to set up a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus - who had already sent a letter requesting a meeting - when she asked if he was going to talk with them,as if all black people know each other and can set up meetings with each other) you could ever meet, and then called the Israeli PM "Betenyahu", and said that the reporter asked an "insulting question".
 
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Ah, that wasn't even from this particular conference, actually. I believe that was from this weekend.

In this one, when an ultra-orthodox Jewish reporter asked him what his plans were to deal with the rising anti-semitic attacks, he told the Jewish reporter to sit down (and to be "quiet"), and proceeded to go on a rant about how he was the least anti-semitic guy, and the least racist person (while in the same presser, telling a black reporter to set up a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus - who had already sent a letter requesting a meeting - when she asked if he was going to talk with them,as if all black people know each other and can set up meetings with each other) you could ever meet, and then called the Israeli PM "Betenyahu", and said that the reporter asked an "insulting question".
No actually, second incident.
 
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Plants and factories are...​

This thread is about the press conference. The press conference where (among other things) Trump asked a black reporter if she could set up a meeting between him and the Congressional Black Caucus.
 
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""We had Hillary Clinton give Russia 20 percent of the uranium in our country. You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons, and other things. Like, lots of things are done with uranium, including some bad things. Nobody talks about that."
 
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Trump is simply laying the ground work to be declared unfit. President Pence anyone?

Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
U.S. Constitution, 25th Amendment, Sec 4
 
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This thread is about the press conference. The press conference where (among other things) Trump asked a black reporter if she could set up a meeting between him and the Congressional Black Caucus.

Reading the links are so helpful

Those were DIRECT quotes from the press conference. The topic of this thread.
 
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Reading the links are so helpful

Those were DIRECT quotes from the press conference. The topic of this thread.

He does okay when he sticks to reading the script...which lasted all of 10 minutes...maybe.
 
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Trump has done and said a lot of crazy [staff edit] things that bear no relation to any known reality, but today is just, just... you have to go watch it. Or at the very least read the transcript.

I saw the whole thing today without reading any news commentary. [Staff edit].

Post your favourite excerpts below.
It was great all of it.

Mission accomplished. He got his message directly to the American people.

Holding the media accountable. Been waiting for a President to do this for a long time.
 
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It was great all of it.

Mission accomplished. He got his message directly to the American people.

Holding the media accountable. Been waiting for a President to do this for a long time.

Yeah basic raving at and being demeaning to reporters instead of answering their questions is exactly what we should want out of a President.
 
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It was great all of it.

Mission accomplished. He got his message directly to the American people.

Holding the media accountable. Been waiting for a President to do this for a long time.

Nothing says 'holding accountable' quite like constant interruptions and beration interspersed with lies and narcissistic grandiosity.

[Staff edit]
 
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