Yes it’s a tu quoque, sue me
One thing that stood out in that horrifying “press conference” was his whines about the “hatred” at CNN.
It’s very important to me and especially in this position. It’s very important. I don’t mind bad stories. I can handle a bad story better than anybody as long as it’s true and, you know, over a course of time, I’ll make mistakes and you’ll write badly and I’m OK with that. But I’m not OK when it is fake. I mean, I watch CNN, it’s so much anger and hatred and just the hatred.
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And I’ll tell you what else I see. I see tone. You know the word “tone.” The tone is such hatred. I’m really not a bad person, by the way. No, but the tone is such — I do get good ratings, you have to admit that — the tone is such hatred.
I watched this morning a couple of the networks. And I have to say, Fox & Friends in the morning, they’re very honorable people. They’re very — not because they’re good, because they hit me also when I do something wrong. But they have the most honest morning show. That’s all I can say. It’s the most honest.
But the tone, Jim. If you look — the hatred. The, I mean, sometimes — sometimes somebody gets…
(CROSSTALK)
TRUMP: Well, you look at your show that goes on at 10 o’clock in the evening. You just take a look at that show. That is a constant hit. The panel is almost always exclusive anti-Trump. The good news is he doesn’t have good ratings. But the panel is almost exclusive anti-Trump. And the hatred and venom coming from his mouth; the hatred coming from other people on your network.
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You know, I said to him yesterday this whole Russia scam that you guys are building so that you don’t talk about the real subject which is illegal leaks, but I watched him yesterday working so hard to try and get that story proper. And I’m saying “here’s my chief of staff,” a really good guy, did a phenomenal job at RNC. I mean, he won the election, right?
We won the presidency. We got some senators, we got some – all over the country, you take a look, he’s done a great job. And I said to myself, you know – and I said to somebody that was in the room, I said “you take a look at Reince, he’s working so hard just putting out fires that are fake fires.” I mean, they’re fake. They’re not true. And isn’t that a shame because he’d rather be working on healthcare, he’d rather be working on tax reform, Jim (ph).
I mean that. I would be your biggest fan in the world if you treated me right. I sort of understand there’s a certain bias maybe by Jeff (ph) or somebody, you know – you know, whatever reason. But – and I understand that. But you’ve got to be at least a little bit fair and that’s why the public sees it. They see it. They see it’s not fair. You take a look at some of your shows and you see the bias and the hatred.
Emphasis mine.
That’s eight times he complained of “hatred” – Donald Trump, complaining of “hatred” directed at him. Donald Trump is the worst bully ever elected to that office, and he’s complaining about hatred in the commentary on him.
Did Crooked Hillary help disgusting (check out sex tape and past) Alicia M become a U.S. citizen so she could use her in the debate?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2016
There is no sex tape, there never was any sex tape.
Trump was a birther for several years.
Trump insisted the Central Park 5 were guilty after they were exonerated by DNA evidence.
Trump publicly calls women ugly.
Trump calls people “losers.”
Trump spews hatred whenever he opens his mouth – and he has the gall to complain of CNN’s attitude to him. Talk about entitled…
No that’s not a Tu Quoque fallacy. It’s the identification of a Special Pleading fallacy.
(/argument nerd)
;-)
Has Trump yet done anything remotely “presidential?” Given that his likely touchstones would be TV and movie presidents, he’s not even doing a passable job of ACTING like a president. He fares poorly against almost any fictional presidential portrayal one could name. What a whiny crybaby. Since he can’t (and won’t) do his job, we’re left with a whinging, pompous hairdo, who merely occupies the office but does not fill it.
With nobody competent minding the store, the rest of the world carries on while the American government’s attention span and focus shrinks to the size of a cable news television screen.
And shrinks even further to 140 characters – preferably all caps.
How long do we have to put up with this shit?
@#4 Claire:
My guess is we have about a month before the House finally decides they can’t sweep this under a rug anymore (assuming the pace is maintained) then probably some half-hearted but real investigation. Depending on what that turns up and how much people are yelling at them they’ll go somewhere from there before next January…
Or they could just decide “well fuck it, we’d much, much rather have Pence” and do that before he’s implicated in anything.