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Is this really how a president should answer questions?

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
I watched it live. This reporter is historically hostile to Trump. This was another case of Gotcha being played.

This President, for good or for bad, doesn't just smile at hostile reporters, he just tells them how he feels. They seem to feel that they can report anything they want, however they want, and the President can't hurt their feelings.

The network from which this this reporter comes spends 24 hours a day criticizing Trump, including nasty lies. They are, in essence, an adjunct to the democrat party.

He doesn't like it, he tells them so.

I say to you, so what?
I don't like the tiny baby trumpy-wumpy and I'd tell him so. I don't like pile of poop Mitch and his poo flinging and I'd tell him so. I don't like right wing fanatics who are destroying the country. I don't like those who refuse to consider ethics and morals to be destroying the country. I don't like those who excuse that pile of poo in the white house. Lock them all up. Make the right wing party illegal.

Now I've channeled Trump using a mirror.
 

metis

aged ecumenical anthropologist
Maybe I am wrong, but does not the journalists ask a fully legal questions toward the American president here?
And listen to his answers.

No surprise. And it begs the question why any basically moral person would still admire and praise him? Bu I guess these are the same kind of people that would also would maybe also have admired the three fascist leaders in Europe prior to WWII because they're "strong leaders".
 

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member

sun rise

The world is on fire
Premium Member
Also, look at this:

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Unveiled Artist

Veteran Member
I watched it live. This reporter is historically hostile to Trump. This was another case of Gotcha being played.

This President, for good or for bad, doesn't just smile at hostile reporters, he just tells them how he feels. They seem to feel that they can report anything they want, however they want, and the President can't hurt their feelings.

The network from which this this reporter comes spends 24 hours a day criticizing Trump, including nasty lies. They are, in essence, an adjunct to the democrat party.

He doesn't like it, he tells them so.

I say to you, so what?

Regardless. The professionality of Trump's response is the key. Least thats first impression even when he first ran and his speech address.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Yes, i agree with you, When you guys got Trump the alternative was Clinton, and I guess she would not be any better.

If you go back into the archives here, you would find that just about everybody was voting for the lesser of the two evils.

Trump for me was just that "stick of dynamite" for which I had mentioned multiple times he was not my first choice.
 

Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want
If you go back into the archives here, you would find that just about everybody was voting for the lesser of the two evils.

Trump for me was just that "stick of dynamite" for which I had mentioned multiple times he was not my first choice.
If i was an American i would have voted for Clinton at that election too. Kind of glad i did not have to vote there
 

ecco

Veteran Member
From my perspective, he has done many good things, with an opposing party that has as it's goal, not to work with him, to resist everything he does, even at the cost of the people, not to beat him at the ballot box, but to literally destroy him.

Name ten five really good things he has done for the Country. Yeah, I know, appointed two conservative justices.

Aside from blocking his really pathetic "Health care plan", with the help of a decent Republican, name two major pieces of his legislation that the Dems have blocked.
 

ecco

Veteran Member
Maybe not, in many ways. However, I am much more concerned about substance over style.

I look at actual results not his childish outbursts.
You have absolutely no concept of what it takes to be a leader.

How would you compare Trump's style to Jesus'?
 

whirlingmerc

Well-Known Member
Regardless. The professionality of Trump's response is the key. Least thats first impression even when he first ran and his speech address.

It was a bad reaction by the reporter as well. He put his hand on his heart and emanated pathos. But be opened up the line of questioning and could have focused on solutions instead of throwing the gasoline on panic.
 

Spirit of Light

Be who ever you want
I have a question.

Are Trump and his followers afraid of the truth? To me, it seems like they/him avoid the difficult questions, and avoid answering clearly when they do answer to questions.
As i said earlier, i am not interested in bashing Trump/Republican politics or the followers of Trump. But my questions are more about why do they try to avoid giving clear answers?

But i am not an American so maybe I don't understand the culture there
 

WhyIsThatSo

Well-Known Member
Maybe I am wrong, but does not the journalists ask a fully legal questions toward the American president here?
And listen to his answers.


You people don't really think you "elect" a President, do you ?
Oh my, this is worse than I thought.
 

Rise

Well-Known Member
MSNBC is taking things out of context by not showing the full exchange.


Go to 41:20 to see the first question from that reporter. And go a couple minutes back if you want the larger context about the government acquiring a large amount of a medication that could potentially prove effective against COVID-19 because it reportedly was effective against SARS.

To which the reporter responded:
"Is it possible that your impulse to put a positive spin may be giving Americans a false sense of hope..."

When Trump called him out for a nasty question, I think he was referring to not merely the question just asked of him, but the one which immediately preceded it as well.

The tone of the second question seems to carry with it the suggestion that he's doesn't think the President's answer to his first question was good enough as a message to the American people. You could take his second question as challenging Trump to tell the American people something different - something not so positive. And if that's the case, then Trump was right to call the reporter out for being a terrible example of his profession. What kind of reporter would insist at a time like this that the President should be more negative during a crisis and not let people have any hope?
 
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Rise

Well-Known Member
No surprise. And it begs the question why any basically moral person would still admire and praise him?

That is not what "begging the question" means.

Begging the question is a logical fallacy wherein you try to prove your conclusion by using your conclusion as one of your premises.
begging the question - Wiktionary

It's not relevant to the point you were making, but I just wanted to point that out because I see this term incorrectly used so much. I use to use it incorrectly myself until I learned otherwise because it's so commonly misused that we take for granted that is the proper way to use the phrase.
 

McBell

Resident Sourpuss
It is this video I posted i discuss, so asking a legal question as he does in the beginning of the video, should not be asked? or should the president of America actually be honest and tell the people that, Yes we do have a crisis on our hand? Everyone knows now that corona kills people and that it spreading like fire in dry grass. Why can not Trump just say it and be done with it, and do something about it?
Trump is not big on admitting he was wrong.
Period.
Sharpie Gate, for example.
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
That is not what "begging the question" means.

Begging the question is a logical fallacy wherein you try to prove your conclusion by using your conclusion as one of your premises.
begging the question - Wiktionary

It's not relevant to the point you were making, but I just wanted to point that out because I see this term incorrectly used so much. I use to use it incorrectly myself until I learned otherwise because it's so commonly misused that we take for granted that is the proper way to use the phrase.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
He should've said "raises the question".

I feel better now.
 
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