Donald Trump went off on the media Monday for reporting that he called Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s personal assistant the “girlfriend from hell” and for suggesting that he defended the now-banned NBA owner.
Trump called into “Fox & Friends” last week to discuss an audio recording of Sterling telling V. Stiviano, who was identified as his girlfriend at the time, not to take pictures with black people or bring blacks to basketball games with her. Trump condemned Sterling’s remarks repeatedly, but also suggested the Clippers owner was “set up” by the “girlfriend from hell.”
Appearing Monday morning on the Fox News program, the real estate mogul slammed the media for running with his comments about Stiviano rather than his criticism of Sterling.
“I knocked the hell out of Donald Sterling for five minutes, said what a bad guy, said, you know, horrible things he said,” Trump said. “And then I said just in passing and by the way, the ‘girlfriend from hell,’ and everybody laughed. Which is obviously true — I mean this girlfriend is taping him, and with very bad intentions obviously. She’s bad news.”
Trump claimed that “nobody was tougher on Donald Sterling” than he was and lamented that “thousands” of articles twisted his comments to make it look like he defended the Clippers owner.
“What they did is they used the girlfriend statement, like I was defending him by blaming the girlfriend, which was so dishonest,” he said.
Trump added that he finds it “disgusting” how the press goes after him since he’s emerged as a conservative figure. He singled out the Huffington Post as “pathetic” and further suggested that libel laws be reinstated so that he could fight the more “egregious” statements he disputes.
“Reporters are really dishonest, especially political reporters,” Trump said. “I’ve never seen anything like this.”
How dare the media quote me exactly.
Poor poor victim. The Donald must be running again.
Yeah, it’s obvious for decades how much The Donald “hates” the media.
“Reporters are really dishonest, especially political reporters,” Trump said. “I’ve never seen anything like this.”
Really…he has never seen anything like this? How is a direct quote, in context, dishonest? Is Trump denying he made the remarks? No…hes upset that he gets the same media crap that everyone gets.
Donald would actually have a point - that proper context wasn’t really given - if he hadn’t spend the better part of the past few years making a name for himself as the man who requires no context, no evidence, and no objectivity when making a point. He’s a champion of non-critical thinking… until it pertains to his own behavior.
That’s when you should really think it through and get all the facts, apparently.