Donald Trump said he would “fire” the ABC News journalist who grilled him about his past comments during a panel at the National Association of Black Journalists convention on July 31.
During his appearance on Adin Ross’s livestream on Kick on Monday, Trump was asked for his reaction to the event, which his campaign appeared to cut short by 30 minutes when it was clear that he led the session off the rails.
“This woman starts talking … about racism, and I said, ‘You didn’t even say hello to me,’ and I’m doing them a favor by doing this,” Trump told Ross on Monday. “I’m doing this out of respect to the Black community.”
It wasn’t really a reply to you, it was context so other people can decide if he answered the question or not.
His answer is “I’ve been the best president for Black people since Lincoln.”
As I said, it’s not a good answer, but it is an answer. And he only said that bit after the journalist did press him by asking the question again, interrupting his rant in fact.
I am just not sure what you are on about with integrity. They did press him, and he did answer. She then even followed up that question by challenging Trump’s answer.
But at a certain point, the answer is the answer. The journalist did her job and it’s up to the viewers/readers to determine if they like or agree with that answer.
Let me just ask a follow-up, sir, and then we’ll move on to other questions here. Some of your own supporters, including Republicans on Capitol Hill, have labeled Vice President Kamala Harris, who is the first black and Asian-American woman to serve as vice president and be on a major party ticket, as a DEI hire. Is that acceptable language to you? And will you tell those Republicans and those supporters to stop it?
This was literally a follow up question and not a challenge to what you refer to as his answer.
The challenge I was referring to was her trying to interrupt him by asking, “more than Lyndon Johnson who signed the civil rights act?”
I think we’re just going to disagree on this one. I’m not really sure why you feel the need to attack the journalists’ integrities when I thought they did great considering who they were interviewing.
