You Will Anyway: Reporters: enemy of the people

Friday, February 2, 2018

Reporters: enemy of the people

President Trump mocked Democrats and "the resistance" at the Republican National Committee's (RNC) winter meeting at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Thursday night.

In brief remarks broadcast by Fox News, Trump said that his administration has been able to pass major legislation, including an overhaul of the tax code, despite Democrats' call to "resist" his presidency.

"You know, the name is resist," Trump joked. "That's the name of their movement. 'Resist.' That's all they do is resist. I don't know if they're good at it, they can't be too good at it because we're passing a lot of things."

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Trump made the remarks after speculating that congressional Democrats would be unwilling to work with his administration on a fix for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) recipients, accusing the party of just wanting to "talk" about immigration reform.

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Trump's comments came during a brief portion of the event that was open to the press before members of the media said reporters were escorted out of the room.

The Hill

Here's Breitbart on the event:

President Donald Trump ridiculed the opposition in the media after his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, before sending them out of his speech to the Republican National Committee.

The president made his remarks at the Winter Republican National Committee meeting that was hosted at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C.

Trump boasted that media coverage of his State of the Union address was positive at first, but that it quickly turned negative.

“Even the haters back there gave good reviews on that one,” he said, referring to his speech. “It’s hard for them.”

Trump boasted that even the “fake polls” on his speech turned out positive, and suggested that the media was upset by the results.

“Took them a couple of hours to figure before it went negative,” he said. “They got calls from the bosses.”

The White House press pool was escorted out within five minutes of his speech, cutting the broadcast coverage of his speech short, according to the reporters present. CSPAN noted “technical difficulties” before abandoning the event. Fox News quickly turned to regularly scheduled programming.

Breitbart

I wonder why The Hill didn't include the media knock. Maybe only Breitbart was allowed to stay for that part.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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GUILDENSTERN: What a fine persecution---to be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened.

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GUILDENSTERN: But for God's sake what are we supposed to do?!

PLAYER: Relax. Respond. That's what people do. You can't go through life questioning your situation at every turn.

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