[ April 23, 2024 ]
President Donald Trump, in a take-no-prisoners tone of voice, ordered one of CNN’s biggest names, Jim Acosta, from an Oval Office press gaggle after the reporter peppered him with racially charged questions — which were more like accusations.
Acosta’s known for his grandstanding and rude behavior. But this time, he was put in his place.
Watch the moment here:
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And then Fox News has more of the story:
Acosta yelled, “Mr. President,” three times before finally getting Trump’s attention.
“Did you say that you want more people to come in from Norway? Did you say that you wanted more people from Norway? Is that true Mr. President?” Acosta frantically shouted.
“I want them to come in from everywhere… everywhere. Thank you very much everybody,” Trump responded as Acosta continued to bark questions.
“Just Caucasian or white countries, sir? Or do you want people to come in from other parts of the world… people of color,” Acosta shouted.
Trump then pointed directly at Acosta and simply said, “Out!”
A Trump staffer in the background can be heard saying, “Jim, thank you,” before the CNN star presumably exited the room. Acosta then took to Twitter, accusing White House aides of obstructing him from asking questions.
Acosta has been among the most outspoken critics of President Trump and is a significant part of CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker’s apparent anti-Trump programming strategy. Trump has famously dubbed CNN “fake news” and pointed directly at Acosta and called him by the disparaging moniker in the past.
Last December, Acosta was shut down by White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders when the liberal reporter tried to hijack a press briefing. Acosta told Sanders that journalists make “honest mistakes” but that doesn’t make them “fake news” before attempting a question. Sanders quickly cut him off.
“When journalists make honest mistakes, they should own up to them. Sometimes, and a lot of times, you don’t,” Sanders said as Acosta tried to interrupt.
“I’m sorry, I’m not finished,” she said. “There is a very big difference between making honest mistakes and purposefully misleading the American people… you cannot say it’s an honest mistake when you’re purposely putting out information you know is false.”
Acosta has also gotten into combative arguments with other members of the administration including Senior Policy Adviser Stephen Miller. Meanwhile, CNN has been mocked for a variety of anti-Trump segments, such as focusing on the president’s soda intake amid unfolding breaking news related to a terror attack in New York City.
Acosta’s colleague, fellow CNN star Chris Cuomo, apologized on Tuesday after he referred to Principal Deputy White House Press Secretary Raj Shah as “Raj whatever-his-name-is.”
CNN has also aired the uncensored version of the word “s—hole” on a regular basis since Trump reportedly used the term to describe certain African countries. CNN anchors and guests said the profanity 195 times in one day last week, according to the Media Research Center.
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69 Comments
6 years ago
CNN a continuous problem during briefings, afterwards reports fake news. Ban both CNN and their reporters, allow them a script report if they wish to report on the story.
6 years ago
Reply to
GrnBeretVet
The media has constructed an echo chamber for itself where they each feed off the others’ idiocy. It is like that old book by Gordon Allport called “The Psychology of Rumor” where he states the amount of rumor about at any given time depends on the interest in the subject matter multiplied exponentially by how little is known about it. Case in point and CNN, a.k.a. Counterfeit News Network, is the prime example.
6 years ago
Reply to
GrnBeretVet
Why let them in at all. They make up whatever they want to report anyway.
6 years ago
Reply to
GrnBeretVet
Why even that courtesy? Life is a two way street. They can get their news from responsible and legitimate news sources. Purveyors of fake news should not be subsidized by the government. at all.
6 years ago
Acosta is just a total Onanist. Can’t someone have a full and frank word with him. He is a pseudo human in desperate need of attitude adjustment.
6 years ago
Reply to
munchenfez
Dorothy Parker named her parakeet ‘Onan’ for ‘he scattereth his seed upon the ground.”
6 years ago
Reply to
munchenfez
The only thing that works is to take away their press pass….permanently. Then all they can do is rail and scream on CNN…..which is a failing new organization. At some point he’ll stroke out.
6 years ago
Trump, the absolute boss.
Acosta, the menstrual weasel.
It was glorious!
6 years ago
Reply to
RCQ_92130
Not really.
Acosta should not have been allowed in the room in the first place.
6 years ago
Reply to
Michael Garfinkel
Acosta needs a great, thundering fist into the fact that splits his nose, and then dragging out by the feet like a sack of potatoes. That little boy was not ‘brought up’, he was thrown up without discipline or manners and now needs to be banned from the WH for his gross ignorance and disrespect. His side did not get Hillary Clinton and now this disgusting rudeness time and again. America missed the bullet by inches.
6 years ago
Reply to
Michael Garfinkel
It was much better that he allowed Acosta into the room and let him hang himself for being a two faced lying little dickhead than to just bar him. Had President Trump just barred him from the room he could have gotten alot of heat for Stepping on free press, this way CNN hoisted itself on it’s own Petard and they have no one to blame but Acosta.
6 years ago
Reply to
James
I am not persuaded.
CNN has ceased to be a news organization and has instead become a weaponized arm of the left, attacking the president and his family relentlessly.
I quote from a recent column by David Harsanyi:
“CNN’s Brian Stelter spent the last week baselessly speculating about the mental health, not the overall fitness, (of the president) based on their intuition and hopes, rather than any genuine evidence.”
Chris Cuomo of CNN referred to the president as a “sh*thole” on the air, and said that he wanted his children to watch the broadcast.
Do I need to go on?
I would pull that network’s press credentials for the duration of the president’s term.
Period.
6 years ago
Reply to
Michael Garfinkel
true and we don’t disagree on this I too believe they need to pull the press creds but we also both can Agree I believe that there are too many people out there who would LOVE to crucify him for Suppression of free press as they seem to just look for a reason to go off about him sadly.
6 years ago
The pathetic Left will undoubtably say this is evidence that Trump is hostile to press freedom or the “separation of powers” or who knows what other mistaken public virtue in their ignorance they rush to defend when THIS president acts in ways the fragile, coddled, naive snowflakes refuse to understand.
Nowhere has the hypocrisy and foolishness of the Leftist press been on such transparent display than Tuesday when some desperate tool stood up and asked the president’s doctor if Trump could not “follow the lead” of physical fitness set by his predecessor, obama — the pack-a-day SMOKER!!!
Imagine the lifelong smoker, drug-addict and muslim Satanist, obama, at Trump’s age. Ugh.
6 years ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
That’s not all. These same you-know-whats were silent to the point of crickets chirping when Obama targeted Fox News, barring their reporters from press conferences, and working to delegitimize them, even going so far as to engage in a fishing expedition against its parent News Corp. in the wake of the 2011 “hacking” scandal at the now-defunct British tabloid News of the World. That’s not counting Obama/Holder’s Justice Department subpoenaing reporters left, right, center, sideways and diagonal. One Times reporter who was such a target under Obama admitted that compared to such true threats represented by Obama and company, Trump’s complaints of “fake news” were more music to his ears.
6 years ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
You are correct and not to mention that many in the press are horrid drunks.
6 years ago
I believe it would be more fitting to place him, far into the back .. but not in the last row .. just buried with some local news, such as the Pioneer Republican weekly. That would simply humiliate that putrid little boy.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
Why not the last row? But for the outrage expressed by members of the press pool, the Obhammud administration was going to put Fox News back there but they don’t deserve that, CNN does.
6 years ago
Reply to
Drew the Infidel
The last row has a certain cache. Second to the last row, that’s simply putting him in his place.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
I would prefer he be put out on the lawn…..in 2 feet of snow. Let him report how cold he is and how all this snow is Trump’s fault. These people are disgusting…..and they reproduce and breed….Lord help us.
6 years ago
Would someone from security please escort the clinton news nitwit from the white house?
6 years ago
Oh,so he wants to behave like that not only in the white house, but in the Oval office. Next time he wants to come, perhaps security can drag the process in letting him in. Then, require him to recite the Pledge of Allegiance at the front door. And as he’s walking in, be required to salute every photo of previous presidents (excluding Obama’s).
6 years ago
Here’s a pretty picture…
6 years ago
Imagine the MSM response to Obama being talked to like that?. The jerk should be WH banned.
6 years ago
Reply to
Michelle
And Lois Lerner of the IRS would have made sure they spent the next 3 years in audit and their bank account seized……
6 years ago
What a punk.
6 years ago
The Trump Effect:
6 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
So awesomely pathetic…..someone get that guy a one way ticket to Iran….
6 years ago
Haul Ass and Bypass: Stocks Go Up $7.8 Trillion with Trump
6 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Trump is NOT a professional politician. He is a businessman and patriot. What we should be putting in office since day one, instead of fatherless MORONS, lieberals, and communist.
6 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
So many ‘professional politicians’ are lawyers and a lawyers’ tool of trade is words, consequently that is what they produce in copious quantities instead of getting down to the business of doing what is in the best interests of ‘we the people’.
Some time ago I came across something on the internet which I found very interesting, a little of which is below.
Missing 13th Amendment Found: “No Lawyers In Public Office”
by Jean
Related: The State of West Virginia REFUSED a Write of Habeas Corpus for Thomas Deegan!
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States has been altered from its original in order to fool the American public into accepting a government that is mostly illegally in office.
The information contained in the article below contains stunning revelations that the entire U.S. congress should be deemed illegitimate, after evidence that a clandestine plot to alter the U.S. Constitution has now emerged.
Themillenniumreport.com reports:
In the winter of 1983, archival research expert David Dodge, and former Baltimore police investigator Tom Dunn, were searching for evidence of government corruption in public records stored in the Belfast Library on the coast of Maine.
By chance, they discovered the library’s oldest authentic copy of the Constitution of the United States (printed in 1825). Both men were stunned to see this document included a 13th Amendment that no longer appears on current copies of the Constitution. Moreover, after studying the Amendment’s language and historical context, they realized the principle intent of this “missing” 13th Amendment was to prohibit lawyers from serving in government. So began a seven year, nationwide search for the truth surrounding the most bizarre Constitutional puzzle in American history — the unlawful removal of a ratified Amendment from the Constitution of the United States.
Does anyone have any further knowledge on this?
6 years ago
Reply to
Cai
Yes, I have heard of this story and cannot ascertain its veracity. However, I would very MUCH like it to be true.
For putting in lawyers to run your country is why we have stacks and stacks of new laws and regulations every year. THOUSANDS, I think.
That BURDEN the people, create long lines at their temple of worship (the bureaucrat office), so you never forget who is in charge!
And lawyers only know how to make phony laws leaving a trail of made-up stuff behind like rat droppings.
If people obeyed the Ten Commandments you wouldn’t need the TWO PLAGUES of mankind.
The bureaucrat and the politician.
6 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
Maybe someone out there knows the full truth of the Missing 13th Amendment, if is factual then it could be the time something was done about righting the wrong perpetrated on the American people by its mysterious disappearance from the Constitution..
6 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
It was recently reported that none of our Congress people – House and Senate – actually write the laws they foster and promote. ALL of the proposed laws are written by lawyers on K Street (special interest lobbying)….that was shocking to me and I say unless a Congress person can certify they personally authored the document they are presenting……it will not be heard in Congress…..and I would personally like some history on when all this started.
6 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
Hmmm…. interesting. I wouldn’t be surprised they let them and underlings write the law and they just look it over, AFTER it has passed!
6 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
Agreed. If Trump were the potty mouth CNN contends, he would have told Acosta to GTFO in no uncertain terms.
6 years ago
Probably best have lifetime ban for him never to enter a government department for news reporting. Make him an example for others.
6 years ago
Poor little Jimmy boy. Told to leave by his father.
6 years ago
Simple solution……no more press briefings or interviews. There is no rule that says the WH has to do them. They publish lies anyways and are only grandstanding to get their mug on TV. Let Trump tweet. Once there are no more questions to be answered, maybe they’ll realize they’ve gone too far in their disrespectful treatment of the president and the White House. Or do what Gorka said last night. Kick them all out and go looking for new, bright reporters from smaller stations who still have scruples and would be thrilled to be part of the press pool. No law that says the biggest have to be the only ones there. Personally, it was funny in the beginning, but now it’s so bad and disgusting and so one sided, makes it hard to watch.
6 years ago
Reply to
Monique Thomson-Bean
All they have to do is have Sanders revoke his Credentials for the Whitehouse Press events including the briefing. He has already been shown to be disruptive.
6 years ago
Reply to
Monique Thomson-Bean
Didn’t Obama have a second room where the reporters he hated were put and only could watch the Presser from a remote room? I say President Trump makes a second room -located in Afghanistan- for disrespectful reporters …they’ll get a satellite feed from D.C.
6 years ago
CNN should stop rolling in the liberal pigs den a long time ago and stay unbiased. More they attack the president, more people will see it’s true colours and the quality of journalism over there.
6 years ago
Reply to
az
That’s exactly what is driving them crazy….as hard and viciously they try to destroy our President….the more he wins…..drives them into insanity…..because it always worked before….but not now. Thanks to all of us Freedom Loving Americans from all walks of life.
6 years ago
In the past couple of days, the Media Research Center released a line graph showing that the coverage of President Trump and his administration in 2017 was 90% negative and only 10% positive. No matter what Trump’s opinion poll approval ratings are, they far exceed those of the sh*thole media that seeks to slander him on a regular basis.
D
6 years ago
Sounds to me as though Jim Acosta is the one with mental issues.
6 years ago
Reply to
Beverly
To a certain degree, I am skeptical of that remark. To have mental issues, does one not have to have a mind?
6 years ago
Boy, that Trump Derangement Syndrome is getting worse and worse…..where’s Dr. Gutpa? Can’t he help these poor unfortunate reporters? Oh, wait….the doctor has been out diagnosing the President without examining him, and violating the Privacy Act, and trashing a fellow Doctor who did actually examine the President…..my bad.. he’s going to need a good lawyer himself…..and, he’s going to need to get a check up himself. Apparently that TDS is highly contagious……LOL
6 years ago
6 years ago
The guy is just plain rude! He was talking over a female voice I was hearing. That is his own personal war on women. He constantly acts like he is the only “reporter” in the room, certainly the most important.
6 years ago
The media is like the muslim: They use lies to spread their beliefs.
6 years ago
Kind of a let down. I was hoping for a perp walk.
6 years ago
Good. throw all of them fake news rag reporters out. Ban the scum.
6 years ago
We must all strive to respect one another.
