{"id":33329,"date":"2018-11-07T23:08:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T23:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33329"},"modified":"2018-11-07T23:08:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T23:08:31","slug":"trump-dukes-it-out-with-the-media-and-the-gop-losers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33329","title":{"rendered":"Trump dukes it out with the media … and the GOP losers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald John \u201cPugilist in Chief\u201d Trump stood before the media and was in a fightin\u2019 mood, to be sure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Not only did he take on the media, calling them \u201cunfair,\u201d \u201crude,\u201d \u201cracist,\u201d and all together comprising nasty individuals working for equally nasty organizations, he decided to call out Republican lawmakers who lost their re-election bids in the midterm election.<\/span><\/p>\n

CNN\u2019s Jim Acosta \u2013 of course! \u2013 was the president\u2019s first target. Acosta sought to ask Trump a follow-up question, the president told him to sit down, calling him and his network a failure. A White House aide then sought to take the microphone from Acosta. <\/span><\/p>\n

It only got worse from there. <\/span><\/p>\n

Trump routinely interrupted reporters in the middle of their questions. He battled with them over what he says are their unfair and unfavorable coverage.<\/span><\/p>\n

PBS\u2019s Yamiche Alcindor, an African-American reporter, was accused of asking Trump a \u201cracist\u201d question because she inquired about the way he has characterized the \u201ccaravan\u201d moving slowly north from Latin America. <\/span><\/p>\n

But he wasn\u2019t done once he got through his usual media-bashing routine.<\/span><\/p>\n

The president of the United States called out \u2013 by name! \u2013 a list of Republican lawmakers who he said failed to embrace him. They paid the price, according to Trump, by losing their re-election bid.<\/span><\/p>\n

Good grief, dude! It\u2019s one thing to lump a group of politicians together, calling out the group for their alleged lack of fealty to the president. It\u2019s quite another to single them out by name, to hold them up as examples.<\/span><\/p>\n

Is this the same guy who said he wanted to \u201cunify\u201d the country, who pledged to seek \u201cpeace and harmony\u201d? Yep, it is. Believe \u2026 or not!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n

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Donald John \u201cPugilist in Chief\u201d Trump stood before the media and was in a fightin\u2019 mood, to be sure. Not only did he take on the media, calling them \u201cunfair,\u201d \u201crude,\u201d \u201cracist,\u201d and all together comprising nasty individuals working for equally nasty organizations, he decided to call out Republican lawmakers who lost their re-election bids … Continue reading Trump dukes it out with the media … and the GOP losers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1043,1424,2470,5248],"class_list":["post-33329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-jim-acosta","tag-white-house-press-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33331,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33329\/revisions\/33331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}