Reading News for You: Trump tweets video of himself slamming and punching ‘CNN’
Sunday, July 02, 2017
VietPress USA (July 2nd, 2017): Violence is not a right way for a President of the most civilized nation like America. Trump tweeted today a violent video of himself to knock down CNN that is considered as a threat to Media. Is this a way for a President to celebrate July 4th, 2017? Please read this news from Yahoo News at: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-tweets-video-slamming-punching-cnn-145733032.html
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| The clip shows Trump slamming ‘CNN’ to ground. (@realDonaldTrump via Reddit)
President Trump shared a video Sunday on Twitter of himself
slamming WWE President Vince McMahon to the ground and punching him, with the
CNN logo superimposed over McMahon’s head, escalating his recent attacks aimed
at the news media.
The footage, taken from “WrestleMania 23” in 2007, shows
Trump approaching McMahon outside of the ring, using a clothesline move to
knock him down and punching him in the head before turning to walk away. A
similar altered clip mocking CNN recently appeared on a Reddit.com message board.
The president’s tweet included a pair of disparaging
hashtags: “#FraudNewsCNN” and “#FNN.” The video was also shared by the official
@POTUS account.
“It is a sad day when the president of the United States
encourages violence against reporters,” the network said in a statement.
“Clearly, [White House press secretary] Sarah Huckabee Sanders lied when she
said the president had never done so.”
The network added: “Instead of preparing for his overseas
trip, his first meeting with Vladimir Putin, dealing with North Korea and
working on his health care bill, he is involved in juvenile behavior far below
the dignity of his office. We will keep doing our jobs. He should start doing
his.”
Trump’s latest Twitter assault comes three days after his controversial tweets attacking MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski’s appearance.
On Thursday, the president lashed out at Brzezinski with an
unusually harsh personal attack aimed at both her and her co-host, Joe
Scarborough.
“I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don’t
watch anymore),” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika,
along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year’s
Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I
said no!”
The tweets sparked widespread condemnation from both sides
of the aisle, with Republican lawmakers urging Trump to tone down the rhetoric
and others openly questioning the president’s mental stability. The White House
defended Trump’s attack, saying it was an acceptable response to the “Morning
Joe” pair’s criticism of the president.
“When he gets attacked, he’s going to hit back,” Sanders told reporters.. “I think the American people elected somebody who’s tough,
who’s smart, and who’s a fighter. And that’s Donald Trump. And I don’t think
that it’s a surprise to anybody that he fights fire with fire.”
Sanders also dismissed the notion that Trump encourages
violent behavior.
“The president in no way, form or fashion has ever promoted
or encouraged violence,” Sanders said.
Aides told the Washington Post they were worried that
Trump’s feud with “Morning Joe” was distracting from his feud with CNN, which
they thought was more winnable.
Late last month, CNN retracted a story that suggested a questionable link between an ally of Trump and a Russian investment fund. The
network announced the resignations of the reporters who wrote it and issued an
apology.
At a Republican fundraiser at the Trump Hotel in Washington,
D.C., last week, the president told donors it would be “fun” to sue CNN.
“These are really dishonest people. Should I sue them? I
mean, they’re phonies,” Trump said, according to audio of the closed-door event published by the Intercept.
“It’s a shame what they’ve done to the name CNN, that I can
tell you,” Trump added. “But as far as I’m concerned, I love it. If anybody’s a
lawyer in the house and thinks I have a good lawsuit — I feel like we do.
Wouldn’t that be fun?”
The president continued his anti-media tirade Saturday.
“The fake media is trying to silence us, but we will not let
them,” Trump said during an event honoring veterans at the Kennedy Center in
Washington. “The fake media tried to stop us from going to the White House, but
I’m president and they’re not.”
On Sunday afternoon, Trump tripled down, tweeting a video of
his anti-media remarks from the event honoring veterans.
“The dishonest media will NEVER keep us from accomplishing
our objectives on behalf of our GREAT AMERICAN PEOPLE!” the president tweeted.
The dishonest media will NEVER keep us from accomplishing
our objectives on behalf of our GREAT AMERICAN PEOPLE! #AmericaFirst
pic.twitter.com/jSciqzAs6G
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 2, 2017
On ABC’s “This Week,” Thomas Bossert, White House adviser
for homeland security and counterterrorism, dismissed the idea that Trump’s
latest tweet-slam is condoning violence against the media.
“I think that no one would perceive that as a threat,”
Bossert said. “I hope they don’t. I do think that he’s beaten up in a way on
cable platforms that he has a right to respond to.”
'No one would
perceive that as a threat,' adviser says of Trump's CNN tweet
Ana Navarro, a conservative commentator who was highly
critical of Trump’s attack on Brzezinski, called the anti-CNN tweet “an
incitement to violence.”
“He is going to get somebody killed in the media,” Navarro
said on ABC. “Maybe that will stop him.”
.@ananavarro: The president "is inciting violence
against the free press—and America, we cannot stand for it."
https://t.co/fr3gTqanFs pic.twitter.com/Rm1Ew686yI
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) July 2, 2017
Like the Brzezinski tweet, Trump’s anti-CNN message drew
bipartisan rebuke.
Violence & violent imagery to bully the press must be
rejected. This #July4th, celebrate freedom of the press, guardians to our democracy
— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) July 2, 2017
I am calling on EVERY @HouseGOP Member of Congress to
condemn this. You were elected to be a check on power. Check it, or you condone
it. https://t.co/ZGR58Ufhww
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) July 2, 2017
Exactly what I meant when I said, #StopTheTwitterTantrums
https://t.co/A7HMLKEemP
— Rep. Mike Coffman (@RepMikeCoffman) July 2, 2017
Trump’s tweet also came a month after Rep. Greg Gianforte,
R-Mont., pleaded guilty to assaulting Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs on the eve
of his election.
.@POTUS posts mock video of him attacking press, even after
a GOP candidate did exactly that. Where will his downward spiral take us?
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) July 2, 2017
On CNN, conservative commentator Ben Ferguson said that he thought the tweet was funny and those who saw it as a threat were overreacting.
“When I saw it I initially laughed at it because I actually thought it was one of the more humorous moments of the real fighting back and forth the president has had with the media,” Ferguson said.
Famed Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein disagreed.
“There’s nothing lighthearted about it whatsoever,” he said on CNN. “It is an incitement.”
Bernstein noted that Trump applauded CNN and other media organizations during the 2016 campaign for coverage of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
“It’s great news when it suits him; it’s fake news when it doesn’t,” Bernstein said. “The nexus of fake news in America is the Trump White House.”
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