Trump Snaps At MSNBC Reporter About ‘Unfair Media’ Coverage (VIDEO)

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MSNBC’s Chris Jansing was the network’s sacrificial lamb on Tuesday morning as Republican frontrunner Donald Trump lamented his “most unfair media” treatment to her during an interview outside a polling place in Wisconsin.

Jansing asked Trump if there would be any changes to his campaign staffing in the future, in what was likely a reference to a New York magazine article that reported infighting among Trump’s small staff.

“No,” Trump responded. “It’s just the media again. I get the most unfair media. This is the first time I’ve been asked this question. Nobody has called me about this. We are number one in every category.”

Jansing then asked if Trump was concerned about the fact his staff was unaware that popular Wisconsin conservative radio host Charlie Sykes was against Trump’s candidacy, setting the candidate up for a brutal interview last week.

“You go into the enemy camp sometimes. He is not a very smart guy, not a very bright guy,” Trump said, adding that his supporters told him he won “the debate” with Sykes.

“Sometimes you go into unfriendly territory. That’s part of the game,” he added.

Is Wisconsin unfriendly territory, Jansing asked?

“No, you said about a radio talk show host,” Trump said.

Jansing pressed him as to whether only Sykes was unfriendly territory.

“That’s what I mean about the dishonest media,” Trump said.

Jansing replied, “I’m asking you a question, allowing you to answer it.”

“Excuse me, Excuse me, excuse me!” Trump said. “You’re asking me about a show host and I said he was unfriendly territory. Then you say is that Wisconsin.”

Jansing reminded Trump that he’d criticized Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) in an earlier part of their interview, but Trump wasn’t having it.

“It’s so dishonest,” he said. “No, no, that’s called—you know what’s that’s called, dishonest media, dishonest reporting. I think I’m going to do great.”

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Notable Replies

  1. Trump is every guy people at a party hope the host has the good taste to ask he take his leave of the premises.

  2. On Planet drumpf there are 2,382,943 “not very smart persons, not very bright person,”

    and they all work for the media which has been giving him more free exposure than all other candidates combined.

    So there is that.

  3. ‘Unfair media’…is their default position. They have nothing else.

  4. Avatar for leeks leeks says:

    Poor little Donny. He is given a billion dollars worth of free media exposer and he complains that they are not treating him fairly.

    He is right. The only fair thing for them to have done would have been to expose this fool for what he is over 6 months ago.

  5. World population (est): 7,395,256,867

    http://countrymeters.info/en/World

    I think on Donnie’s planet there are 7,395,256,850 not very smart, not very bright persons.

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