General Discussion

Nj.com, is it that hard to quote the pertinent statements and questions that led up to the rip or blast? Without the actual text it’s hard to say if Trump was reacting to the content or the manner in which the question was asked. The rest of the exchange is quoted. I guess they got their clicks and the only info I got was that either Newsmax is starting to ask pointed questions or that Trump is still petty in his beefs with the press. If Newsmax’s reporting is drifting from restating Whitehorse talking points, that is news. If Trump is having a hypersensitive reaction to a mere statement about deploying ICE to airports when he seems elsewhere to be proud of that, that is also news. Of course, maybe he was just angered that his friend’s employee wasn’t helping propagandize his message for the day and that is probably not news or at least new.

It seems that Mike Carter first said “Mr. President, Iran's foreign ministry says you're not telling the truth when it comes to productive conversations”. Trump responded, “Well, they’re gonna have to get themselves better public relations people.” Trump got testy and cut the reporter off after Carter prefaced his next question with “Mr. President, you deployed ICE agents to American airports today—”. I’ll leave it up to you whether Trump’s retort “You know, you’re not doing a very good job” is a rip or a blast or both. But if I got it right, it seems at least one reporter at Newsmax wasn’t totally lofting softballs today. Isolated incident or trend? The way our various media sources interact with Trump is important, so I hope for more detailed retelling of both his kudos and adversarial exchanges in the future.