11mo ago

Trump tells Adin Ross he wants to ‘fire’ Black journalist who grilled him onstage

www.independent.co.uk

Donald Trump said he would “fire” the ABC News journalist who grilled him about his past comments during a panel at the National Association of Black Journalists convention on July 31.

During his appearance on Adin Ross’s livestream on Kick on Monday, Trump was asked for his reaction to the event, which his campaign appeared to cut short by 30 minutes when it was clear that he led the session off the rails.

“This woman starts talking … about racism, and I said, ‘You didn’t even say hello to me,’ and I’m doing them a favor by doing this,” Trump told Ross on Monday. “I’m doing this out of respect to the Black community.”

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I love how he feigned outrage at being asked about his own actions and words, and they let him go without answering the question.
If journalists had any integrity they would all band together and ask that same question first until he answers it without deflecting.
- Not very far down the “why is the US so fucked up” list is the abandonment of journalism.
  
  Is it abandonment if it’s being intentionally suppressed, suffocated, and murdered by billionaires? Real easy for a bezos/musk/gates type to buy up something like, say, the Amazon-owned Washington Post, and then only publish what is favorable to the rich
- I give them props for asking in the first place. Most journalists would never think of asking hard hitting questions because that would post them access in the future. This journalist realized that there was no possibility of her having access in the future anyway and went with it.
- This is the part I always find infuriating, regardless of who is being interviewed.
- But he did answer the question. It was a bad answer, but after the journalists pressed him, he did give his answer.
  
  Well, first of all, I don’t think I’ve ever been asked a question so — in such a horrible manner, the first question. You don’t even say, hello, how are you? Are you with ABC? Because I think they’re a fake news network, a terrible network. And I think it’s disgraceful that I came here in good spirit.
  I love the black population of this country. I’ve done so much for the black population of this country, including employment, including Opportunity Zones with Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, which is one of the greatest programs ever for black workers and black entrepreneurs. I’ve done so much. And you know, when I say this, historically, black colleges and universities were out of money.
  They were stone-cold broke. And I saved them, and I gave them long-term financing, and nobody else was doing it. I think it’s a very rude introduction. I don’t know exactly why you would do something like that.
  And let me go a step further. I was invited here, and I was told my opponent, whether it was Biden or Kamala, I was told my opponent was going to be here. It turned out my opponent isn’t here. You invited me under false pretense.
  And then you said, you can’t do it with Zoom. Well, you know, where’s Zoom? She’s going to do it with Zoom, and she’s not coming. And then you were a half an hour late.
  Just so we understand, I have too much respect for you to be late. They couldn’t get their equipment working or something was wrong. I think it’s a very nasty question. I have answered the question.
  I have been the best president for the black population since Abraham Lincoln. That’s my answer. That’s my answer. For you to start off a question-and-answer period, especially when you’re 35 minutes late because you couldn’t get your equipment to work in such a hostile manner, I think it’s a disgrace. I really do.
"i'm doing them a favor" LOL
fucking idiot can't even comprehend that anyone giving him a platform to flap his greasy jowls is literally them doing him a favor. fuck, i can't wait until i never hear about this incompetent shitheel ever again
What an insecure weirdo.
- All narcs are like this. Form over subtance, all projection, any excuse they can death-grasp to weasle out of any committment or obligation.
- Like is he aware that she’s not one of his employees? This just seems like such an out of pocket thing to say
Wow. Dementia Don the RACIST rapist with 34 felonies that can't complete a coherent sentence is really a special snowflake isn't he? He's very fragile, maybe it's because he's sooo old. He needs to drop out, it's embarrassing.
- Yeah that shit is fuckin weird
- He really hates it when a woman is anything but completely deferential to him.
As if Trump does anything out of respect for anyone.
If anything, this is a sign that Rachel Scott is highly employable to make that insecure orange wanker go off the rails! He's a weirdo who desperate cultists want to get elected. Not worthy of being handled with kid gloves, grill his ass!
- They hate it so much when they can't take away ur toys and necessaries. I love it!
  
  Same, I truly love to see these weirdos getting destroyed on TV. It won't sway the cultists overmuch but general population will likely be, "I don't wanna vote for that."
- Rachel Scott for debate host tbh
and I said, ‘You didn’t even say hello to me,’
It's a media interview, you're not coming over to her house for a friendly chat.
- I didn't watch but based on Donald claiming she didn't say hello I assume that she did say hello.
  
  I don't remember what she said, but it was a basic cordial welcome a journalist would give.
  Edit: I can't find exactly how he was introduced, but this is what he said after she asked him her first question:
  “I don’t think I’ve been asked a question in such a horrible manner,” Trump replied. “You don’t even say hello, how are you.”
  She didn't say that to you because she wasn't having a friendly chat with you, dumbfuck.
He later said that “if I owned that network I would fire her so fast.”
Aww, poor widdle baby doesn't own all of the media. 🥺
This may be a ridiculous statement, as are most he makes, but it's still vital to recognize that what he's saying is, should he make it back into office, he would do whatever he could to control the press. He's already been on that since the beginning with his "fake news" bullshit.
Don't get complacent. He's dangerous.
- He later said that “if I owned that network I would fire her so fast.”
  "won't someone rid me of this troublesome reporter?"
- But we are lucky he's so, so dumb.
Retribution. He's obsessed with it. I want to say it's weird but it's actually scary.
- It's scary weird.
Ross — a 23-year-old streamer with a mostly young male audience of more than 1.4 million Kick followers and 4.4 million YouTube subscribers — fawned over the former president during a 90-minute stream and gave him a Rolex and a Tesla Cybertruck wrapped in images of the former president.
A dumpster for a dumpster fire.
- This kid gave Trump a Cybertruck? That's wild
  
  Cue campaign finance violations and ensuing endless litigation and appeals that ultimately goes nowhere slowly. Sigh
  
  trump can't even drive.
  
  A Cybertruck with a special wrap that showed Trump right after he was shot.
  Because that's totally what I'd want, a Cybertruck with a picture of me bleeding on it.
Trump thinks she was 'Uppity' I'll bet.
Adin Ross usually sniffs the farts of the people he interviews. For real. That's his thing. He interviews someone well-known, then he asks them to fart in his face as the finale to his live stream. I am not making this up.
I think the Trump camp only agreed to an interview with the king of live stream fart-sniffing because they are desperate to energize younger voters the way Kamala does.
I am deeply disappointed they cut him off before the end, where he would absolutely have asked Trump if he could smell his fart. Someone must have realized who Adin Ross was at the very last moment and panicked.
Then Adin smelled Trump's chair.
- Step aside, J.D. Couch-fucker, and make way for Chair-Sniffer.
  
  Starting to think Trump has a furniture fetish.
  
  They are so fucking weird...
Man, that thumbnail looks like a miserable time.
- Looks like a SNL skit
Freeeeeedom of speeeeeeech for me, not for thee
These two weirdos are definitely banging eachother
Does he know that not everyone is working for him? Is this dementia or delusions of grandeur?
- Yes
her name is Rachel Scott
Okay Grampa let’s get you to bed
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