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Americans Are Sick of Trump Abusing Reporters Doing Their Job in a Crisis

As Nicole and Andrea have already covered, Trump had a nasty exchange with a reporter – CBS’s Weijia Jiang, a Chinese-born, American citizen –  during today’s press conference, one that sprung out of an honest, but challenging, question that should have been answered with respect.

Americans are getting damned tired of Trump beating up on reporters and ex-presidents during a time of fear and worry across the nation.

To set up what happened, for those who haven’t followed along, we have a tweet that explains the situation and how it evolved:

Again, Americans are just furious with this abuse, and that’s what it has been reduced to, nothing but abuse:

It is always a woman reporter who gets the most cutting remarks. Jim Acosta can get yelled at, but generally doesn’t get the personal insults that cut so sharply.

It should be highlighted that the reporter, Weijia Jiang is a senior White House correspondent, one of the elite, a respected woman of color, and Trump seems to reserve a wave of special dripping anger toward women of color. Trump loves white women immigrants:

Notice that the Right will cover for him. I don’t know if it is the same reporter who noted the Kung flu, but in the right’s mind, that makes Trump’s blowback justified. This episode makes her claim even more credible. Oh, and “chick,” – professional doing her job.

Trump prefers a much more fawning, almost worshipful tone:

This is really what it gets down to. He has no other tools to handle the pressure of the job, nor the crisis. He just rages and intimidates his way through these, which his followers believe to be “tough” when it’s actually a weakness.

Yep.

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Peace, y’all

Jason

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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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