Pure Gold: Trump Deftly Puts Reporter in His Place for Ridiculous Question During Presser

By Nick Arama | 2:24 PM on December 16, 2024

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Joe Biden is technically still occupying the White House for 35 more days until Jan. 20. He's supposedly "in charge."

But it already seems like President-elect Donald Trump has taken the reins with his actions.

In a press conference on Monday, Trump took a variety of questions and laid out aspects of the coming "golden age" he said he would be ringing in with his policies. He already announced what sounds like a terrific deal with SoftBank to have more investment in this country that would reportedly create thousands of new jobs for Americans.

Unlike Biden, who can't handle press conferences, during this presser, what you finally saw was someone in command again.

Here was Trump, solid and in control. Asked a silly question by a reporter, he saw the inherent problem or trap in the question and wasn't afraid to call the reporter out on the question when the reporter asked if he was going to do preemptive strikes on Iran.

Trump puts a reporter in his place: "Is that a serious question??"

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"Why would I say that?" Trump said. "Can you imagine if said yes or no?" He even had some of the reporters laughing at that, an acknowledgment that he was right. He said any way he answered that question would be wrong, and they would find it "strange." "Is that a serious question? How could I answer a question like that?" Why would he ever give Iran such a heads-up? He'd never comment on an upcoming military action.

That's how you teach such a reporter to not ask such silliness again, by spelling out how silly it is. But Trump was too smart to fall for it and then get they would twist a soundbite out of that. He also took out the question without personally attacking the reporter.

Can you imagine Kamala Harris even being able to answer such a question? If she tried, you'd probably get an empty word salad and at least three cackle attacks. If Joe Biden got that kind of question, he'd end up somehow blaming Israel or otherwise screwing it up. However, the media probably wouldn't even ask because that would be too challenging and hard for the duo.

But this is what it's like to have a real leader in actual command and not the empty chair that we've had for such a long time.

The reporters were largely not overly hostile, which was interesting. It might be a momentary honeymoon. I think they're so used to not getting any answers from the Biden team that they were stunned when they finally had someone actually responding and not giving canned answers to their questions.

It's going to be so nice having someone competent in charge again.