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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trump is belligerent even with the easiest questions:

“Trump said he would meet with some of the families affected by the crash. Asked by reporters whether he would visit the collision site,[b] Trump responded: “What’s the site? The water? You want me to go swimming? I don’t have a plan to do that,[/b] but I will be meeting with some people that were very badly hurt — with their family member, obviously.””

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Can’t believe someone was dumb enough to actually ask him to visit the collision site. He should’ve said oh You mean in the middle of the sky? [/quote]

Don't be obtuse. What do you think people mean when they talk about any accident site? How about for the Twin Towers? Are you going to crack a joke about how you can't because the building isn't there anymore? Your'e about as funny as Trump.[/quote]

It’s not obtuse.  If reporters want to be treated as professionals, they need to not ask stupid questions.  I was called out for asking a similarly stupid question when I was taking a journalism class in college right after 9/11.  I’m grateful I learned that lesson at age 20.  Clearly this reporter didn’t.[/quote]

That’s right, you’re an expert because you took a journalism class 25 years ago! Has the White House press secretary reached out yet to have you screen questions?[/quote]

I didn’t mean to imply I’m an expert—sorry if I did.  I have never worked as a journalist.  I am in no way affiliated with the White House.  No, I have not been contacted by the current or any former White House press secretaries on any matter—I apologize for giving that impression.  I meant to say that I was taught to consider my questions before asking them.  I thought that was a valid lesson in a college journalism course, not something that needed to wait to be taught until a journalist is questioning the president.[/quote]

Will you be going to the crash site to pay your respects: how is that not a completely ordinary, expected, and even softball question. The answer should have been: yes, I will be going to the crash site to console the families and to thank the first responders as soon as doing so will not impede the recovery efforts. Had he said that, no one would be talking about his actual response. I’ve never taken a journalism class and have no political training but can easily determine this is the right Q&A. Stop defending him. Stop gaslighting that the reporter’s question was the problem.[/quote]

I am defending his response.  I’m not gaslighting anything—I am stating clearly I think the reporter’s question was stupid.  [/quote]

It is a very standard question, asked of every president during every catastrophe. It's even more common to answer unequivocally "yes, I will be there." I'm not surprised that you're unfamiliar and uninformed about this basic journalism practice. Nothing stupid about the question. [/quote]

It actually would have been fine for him to say "no there are no plans for me to visit the site -- we need to give them space to do their work." Asking that question doesn't mean he has to say yes.

He just needs to not be a snotty jerk about it. This is the kind of response you get from a 12 year old and then you say "let's try that again without the attitude, okay?"

It is fine if he doesn't visit the site. There are no survivors and it's a spread out site and there may not be a good reason for him to go. But is he incapable of answering that question without sarcasm and rudeness? Apparently, yes.

His second administration is just going to lead to more deterioration of social norms that help underpin our society. People watch him do this stuff and defend it and applaud it, and that normalizes it for everyone else to start acting that way. If everyone acts like Trump, though, we don't even have a society. We just have a bunch of petulant a$$holes competing over resources and lying and cheating and being aggressive about it.

Sounds great.[/quote]

While I don't agree that it's fine for him to not go (it's 10 min from the WH) I agree with everything else you said. [/quote]

Even if he has no intention of going, the easiest thing to say would be “We are looking into that and working with recovery teams on issues like that.”  Then at some point in the future he sends Vance and Usha to lay a wreath or dedicate a memorial.  That’s  how a normal adult would handle that.  He’s definitely worse than he was 8 years ago and I don’t see how everyone doesn’t recognize that he is acting like your elderly relative with dementia with their weird slightly off-topic aggressive responses.  
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Here's the thing - there's visiting the crash site and then there's the airport, where presumably many family members of the people on board were waiting to pick them up. It's one thing not to go visit a site where there are no survivors and is an ongoing recovery situation. But what about the families who were at the airport? I can't even imagine the chaos there as the news started to unfold and people began frantically texting their friends and family to see if that was their plane. Just awful. And instead of going there he asked if he should be swimming. [/quote]

The sooner America learns that he. does. not. care. the better. Maybe it will wake some people up. [/quote]

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