I watched Cavuto for about 10 minutes this morning. I like him as long as he avoids politics, then he becomes your typical Fox host. Anyway he had a reporter on (I missed his name) who basically said that the WH press should change how it asks questions. Quit thinking he will actually give an answer and start asking him for specifics when he makes a claim. The example he used was about this being the “best economy on record”. He said reporters should ask him to explain that statement, to compare it with other good economic periods and to use specifics. He said Trump would make a fool out of himself if made to do that.
I would agree. Trump answers everything with one sentence sound bites that are based in emotion. request facts from him.
“That’s a stupid question. That’s such a stupid question.” More or less how he responded to a question he didn’t like today. That’s all he’ll do when asked to explain something he doesn’t want to explain (or most likely, can’t).
You both are right, he would most likely just say it was a stupid question. But how long do you think he can actually respond to legit questions that way? He does seem to be less and less able to hold a civil news conference.
The other thing the reporter mentioned was that Trump basically sets up the CNN guy by continuing to call on him. If he didn’t want to answer his questions he simply didn’t have to call on him.
Part of me would just love it if reporters would stop attending White House press briefings entirely, and go about reporting the rest of the news in the usual way.
CNN is making bank off this controversy. If they really cared they would boycott Trump coverage. Instead they stoke the flames and then feign outrage at the inferno.
True, but that isn’t the biggest problem here. A free press is actually a big deal, so it isn’t like this is a blown out of proportion nothingburger.
The real problem is that Trump’s playbook remains “do terrible/illegal thing to distract from all the other terrible/illegal things”, and that’s does always work, but it’s hard to form a credible alternative. Not impossible, but hard.
They can easily report on his official actions without attending his rambling incoherent personal appearances. And I don’t just mean the Nuremberg rallies.
An EU military. Good idea? Bad idea? Would the US finally have a strong partner, militarily? Or it would it provide yet another avenue for European conservatives to come into political power, like in the US? (The US military is mostly GOP I think.)
