Wiejia Jiang and Kaitlan Collins bore the brunt of Trump's ire, but their backbone scared the pathetic toddler away.
By
Aliza Worthington
Once again, Trump showed that he is a thin-skinned, racist,
misogynistic bully. For some reason, he felt the need to hold a press
conference declaring we're leading in a metric that does not exist
(lives saved, which is not a thing you can measure...) and when
reporters challenged him on his myriad lies and double standards, he
went into familiar Defensive Donny mode.
He turned particularly disgusting and abusive at the end, towards
CBS' Weijia Jiang, when she asked him why he continues to present
COVID-19 information in competitive terms with other nations.
JIANG: You've said many times that the U.S. Is doing far better than any other country when it comes to testing.
TRUMP: Yes.
JIANG: Why does that matter? Why is this a global competition to you
if every day Americans are still losing their lives and we're still
seeing more cases every day?
TRUMP: Well, they're losing their lives everywhere in the world. And
maybe that's a question you should ask CHINA. Don't ask me. Ask CHINA
that question, okay? When you ask them that question you may get a very
unusual answer. Yes, behind you, please.
JIANG: Sir, why are you saying that to me specifically? That I should ask China?
TRUMP: I'm telling you. I'm not saying it specifically to anybody. I'm saying it to anybody that asks a nasty question.
JIANG: That's not a nasty question. Why does it matter?
TRUMP: Okay. Anybody else? Please, go ahead in the back. No, it's okay.
COLLINS: You pointed to me. I have two questions.
TRUMP: Next.
COLLINS: You called on me.
TRUMP: I did, and you didn't respond, and now i'm calling on the young lady in the back.
COLLINS: I just wanted to let my colleague finish.
TRUMP: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much, appreciate it. Thank you very much.
BLITZER: Very, very ugly ending to that one hour appearance by the
president in the Rose Garden, refusing to answer our own White House
correspondent Kaitlan Collins' question and going after another
reporter, several reporters in the press in that one-hour exchange.
The indomitable Jiang was absolutely right to challenge
him, and kudos also to Kaitlan Collins for allowing Jiang to follow up
in order to be able to call Trump out. That is the sort of solidarity
the press pool needs to be showing one another all the fucking time
against this monster.
And of course because he cannot handle one woman standing up to him,
let alone two, he tries to punish Collins by not letting her ask her
questions. When she insists, he crumbles like the weak-ass,
paper-thin-skinned coward that he is and ends the presser right there.
This is what happens when you stand up to a bully and an abuser in public. They cower and retreat.
