biochem wrote:gcomeau wrote:Watched it live, until I had to turn it off shortly after this because it was making me ill.
There was no misinterpreting what he did.
I watched the entire thing.
Trump basically quoted himself repeatedly condemning the KKK etc and complained that the news media was cherry picking quotes and using quotes out of context. It was clear he genuinely believed that he had repeatedly condemned white supremacists and that the news media was mid-reporting his beliefs. You may feel free to disagree with his belief.
If he genuinely believed he had said the right thing he wouldn't have edited his comments when he quoted them. He knows perfectly well what pissed everyone off and when he quoted that critical sentence he stopped it dead right before he got to "on many sides, many sides".
And then he just pretended his entire rant about the counter protesters being equally at fault that he made a few days after never happened at all.
Only one person there was misreporting what happened, and he was standing on the stage at the mic.
Given that the majority of the news media goes frothing at the mouth bonkers at pretty much every thing he says adds credibility to his accusations ( they'd actually be far more effective in their condemnations if they toned it down about 100x).
They do not go frothing at the mouth bonkers, but it is almost impossible to report what he says without a degree of concern and incredulity. Which happens to be entirely appropriate.
The media doesn't freak out about Trump, they report on him. They can't help that the subject they are reporting on is outrageous.
Trump on the other hand does freak out about the media. He repeatedly flat out lied about them turning the cameras off on him last night (they never did). Claimed they refused to show his crowd sizes (they showed it). Kept claiming CNNs rating s were plumetting (they just had their best performance in almost their entire history). Etc...
He is un-fucking-hinged.
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