JAMM: Trump Flips Out On Woman Doing Her Job Asking About His Dictator Love Note Edition
Many Nerves Were Touched
Welcome to the Jim Acosta Morning Memo on a new kind of TACO Tuesday — Trump Always Crashes Out, especially when he’s challenged by women who won’t back down.
Triggered Trump Goes Off Half-Cocked: Or so we’ve heard. As we covered in yesterday’s JAMM, Trump posted weird love notes to Kim Jong Un and bashed our ally South Korea over the weekend.
During an Oval Office photo op with hero lifeguard Ryder Williams, Trump flipped out on CNN White House correspondent Kristen Holmes for asking a legitimate but tough question about his interaction with Kim and the decision to scale back military exercises with ROK.
KRISTEN HOLMES: Did he [Kim Jong Un] ask you to scale back on those—?
DONALD TRUMP: Quiet! Quiet! Quiet! You’re very disrespectful in front of this young man, okay? (TO CHILD SEATED NEXT TO HIM) Don’t you find her disrespectful?
He understands. Quiet. Who are you with?
KRISTEN HOLMES: I’m with CNN.
DONALD TRUMP: Fake news. You’re fake news! You’re a loud, boisterous person! You’re fake news. Be quiet! Be quiet! Be quiet!
KRISTEN HOLMES: (CROSSTALKS) I just want to follow up on the South Korea question… / I was trying to find out if you had been talking to Kim Jong Un, if he had asked you to scale back on those military exercises…
DONALD TRUMP: (talking over her) Be quiet! Be quiet! Be quiet! You’re a fake reporter and you report fake news!
Don’t Harp On It: Earlier in the same op, Holmes drew the ire of the entire MAGAsphere by asking about Sen. Jon Ossoff’s reference to Natalie Harp, which sent Trump into a wandering riff on renovations that completely proved Ossoff’s point.
KRISTEN HOLMES: Mr. President — I mean, Jon Ossoff said you’d rather travel with your aide, Natalie Harp, and build the ballroom than do your job as president. What is your response, Jon Ossoff?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: You mean Pee-wee Herman? Pee-wee Herman look-alike? No — I would much rather do other things. We’re building a great facility here. We’re fixing a White House that hasn’t been taken care of. (RANTS FOR SEVERAL PARAGRAPHS)
The Berserk White House Escalation:
