{"id":66293,"date":"2017-02-17T06:41:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T10:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=66293"},"modified":"2017-02-17T06:56:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T10:56:13","slug":"bbc-journalist-recounts-his-experience-at-trump-press-conference-shows-how-clueless-the-msm-has-become","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=66293","title":{"rendered":"BBC &#8216;journalist&#8217; recounts his experience at Trump press conference, shows how clueless the MSM has become, British media the primary mouthpiece for <i>Deep State<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"story-body__h1\">Trump&#8217;s most extraordinary news conference<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump&#039;s most extraordinary news conference\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NY7MhTCtwnc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\"><strong>Today totally typified the unexpected and unpredictable nature of covering the 45th president of the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was at home, working on a book I am trying to finish when there was a flash on the TV: Donald Trump to hold unscheduled news conference in an hour&#8217;s time.<\/p>\n<p>I legged it down to the White House, and on a cold Washington morning waited outside the East Wing for 45 minutes until the Secret Service let us in.<\/p>\n<p>I knew if I was to get a question in I would need to be near the front.<\/p>\n<p>For half an hour the president berated us.<\/p>\n<p>Never had there been a more dishonest group of people.<\/p>\n<p>We were out of control. Wild. Feral. Not to be trusted.<\/p>\n<p>And then it was questions.<\/p>\n<p>He called various journalists he knew.<\/p>\n<p>Then I managed to catch his eye.<\/p>\n<p>And this is what followed:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> Could I just ask you, thank you very much, Mr President. The trouble&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>President Trump:<\/strong> Where are you from?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> BBC.<\/p>\n<p><strong>President Trump:<\/strong> Here&#8217;s another beauty.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> That&#8217;s a good line. Impartial, free and fair.<\/p>\n<p><strong>President Trump:<\/strong> Yeah. Sure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> Mr President&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>President Trump:<\/strong> Just like CNN right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> On the travel ban &#8211; we could banter back and forth. On the travel ban would you accept that that was a good example of the smooth running of government&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>President Trump:<\/strong> Yeah, I do. I do. Let me tell you about this government&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Me:<\/strong> Were there any mistakes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>President Trump:<\/strong> Wait. Wait. I know who you are. Just wait. Let me tell you about the travel ban. We had a very smooth rollout of the travel ban. But we had a bad court. Got a bad decision&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption body-width\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image__img js-image-replace\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/624\/cpsprodpb\/7F16\/production\/_92443523_464x2.jpg\" alt=\"Grey line\" width=\"464\" height=\"2\" data-highest-encountered-width=\"624\" \/><\/span><\/figure>\n<p>It was quite the most extraordinary news conference I have attended.<\/p>\n<p>As I say, everything about reporting on this presidency is unexpected and unpredictable.<\/p>\n<p>He is angry at times, proud of what he&#8217;s achieving, furious that he&#8217;s not getting the recognition he feels he deserves, obsessed by the polls, obsessed by the size of his crowd.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s my one curious takeaway.<\/p>\n<p>The media that he professes to hate and despise he seems to spend an awful lot of time watching.<\/p>\n<p>You wonder, when does he find time to govern?<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-38999993\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-38999993<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s most extraordinary news conference<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}