President Trump told reporters Friday that he doesn’t think he should tone down his rhetoric about journalists and the media in the wake of the arrest of a Coast Guard lieutenant who planned to attack Democratic lawmakers and journalists.
When asked about the arrest, Trump said it was a “shame” and “very sad when a thing like that happens,” referencing the man’s planned attack.
A reporter then asked if Trump felt the need to monitor his language — like referring to reporters as the “enemy of the people — and he said no.
“I think my language is very nice,” he said.
Trump had not previously commented on arrest of the lieutenant, who is an avowed white nationalist, but told reporters he was getting a full briefing on the case later on Friday.
Trump: "I think my language is very nice" pic.twitter.com/XImAathuU3
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) February 22, 2019
OFFS.
Trump literally—not figuratively—but literally clapped when a GOP Congressman body-slammed a reporter and said it might have helped that guy win an election. Calling him a tough cookie and “he’s my guy”.
Dude, you don’t have the magic purple crayon. You can’t just draw things the way you want them to be and have that be real. The folks that are pumping your ego up - they’re not pointing at your beautiful new clothes… they are lying to you in all your buck-naked dimness.
“My language is very nice.” I beg to differ. Your rhetoric is violent, vulgar, conflict-ridden, obsessed with dominance, illogical, absurd, childish, moronic, and in many cases reeks of sadistic fantasies. Just saying “My language is very nice” shows your deep inability to phrase things like an educated or even halfway normal adult. Nobody normal talks or thinks this way. You’re a tragic disaster and a sick joke.
He means it’s a shame the guy got arrested before following through on the plot to kill enemies of
freedom and AmericaTrump.That’s what I meant… metaphorically