Trump slams CNN's 'Crazy Jim Acosta' in shutdown victory lap tweet

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico




By LOUIS NELSON 01/23/2018 07:19 AM EST

President Donald Trump on Tuesday celebrated the end of a government shutdown with a tweet citing a reporter from perhaps his least favorite media outlet: CNN.

“Even Crazy Jim Acosta of Fake News CNN agrees: ‘Trump World and WH sources dancing in end zone: Trump wins again...Schumer and Dems caved...gambled and lost.’ Thank you for your honesty Jim!” Trump wrote online Tuesday morning.

It was not immediately clear which of Acosta’s reporting Trump was citing, or if the quote Trump attributed to the CNN reporter is accurate. Acosta, CNN’s chief White House correspondent, has at times drawn the ire of Trump supporters for his particularly pointed and, at times, confrontational lines of questioning during press briefings.

A spokesperson for CNN did not immediately return a request for comment.




Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/23/trump-tweet-cnn-jim-acosta-358249?lo=ap_a1

[yallerdawg]

1. Yes, piss off Acosta even more, jackass.

Maybe you'll get to grant him an interview from your prison cell in the near future.

Meanwhile, there's nothing like an adversarial press.

Sam Donaldson, Dan Rather, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward - we don't remember their names for being so respectful of that office, do we?

[lagomorph777]

2. Victory lap? Major GOP humiliation. RePutins lost one battle in their War On Children.

They were forced to release most of their child hostages (the CHIP beneficiaries). Mitch McTurdle was publicly humiliated by being forced to lie on TV about the remaining hostages(saying he'll allow a DACA vote). Of course McTurdle's lie will soon become evident when he reneges, but now the side-by-side clips will play in 24-hour rotation as soon as he does so.

[highplainsdem]

3. Politico misreported this. Mediaite got the story right: Trump misquoted Acosta. GD thread:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210134479



Politico was being sloppy when they simply wrote, "It was not immediately clear which of Acosta’s reporting Trump was citing, or if the quote Trump attributed to the CNN reporter is accurate."

It SHOULD have been clear, if they'd just looked at Acosta's tweets.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. Oh look, the 3 year old is back. Where was the toddler during the

whole 'negotiation'?