Donald Trump was interviewed by NBC's Kristen Welker in a Wisconsin barn with a tin roof in the rain last week. The
explosive interview aired yesterday on Meet the Press. Here are the top
takeaways:
Rain: It was raining cats and dogs (according to J.D. Vance) during the interview and it was hard for Welker and Trump to
hear one another and hard for the audience to hear either one. Holding an interview in a barn was a dumb idea. Trump was
in Wisconsin to campaign, but surely there was a TV studio somewhere nearby where they could have done it. Maybe the
set was a subtle hint to farmers that he cares about them, but nothing he said confirms that. And Welker looked kind of
out of place walking around a barn in high heels.
Slush Fund: Trump still supports his $1.776 billion slush fund to pay the Jan. 6 Capitol
cop beaters, as well as his cronies, despite Deputy AG Todd Blanche saying the project is over. Trump said: "People have been
hurt so badly by radical left lunatics that worked for the Biden administration and Sleepy Joe. They're vicious. They're
violent, what they did to people. And of course they went after me more than anybody else." Baldfaced lies, of course
since he was the one who told the rioters to storm the Capitol.
Iran's Uranium: Trump said he would work with Iran to retrieve its highly enriched
uranium. If Iran doesn't cooperate, he will remove it by force. Big words, but it is hidden. No one except the
Iranians knows where, and they are not talking.
Walking Out: When Trump claimed that Democrats were cheating in the California election
and Welker challenged him to produce evidence of that, he said: "You're crooked and Meet the Press is crooked
and so is ABC and CBS and CNN. You're a one-sided crooked network. Sorry, let's call it quits because I've had enough.
Thank you darling. Have a good time." Then he ripped off his microphone and threw it on the barn floor. Welker then said
she came all the way to Wisconsin for the interview and Trump just talked over her. Then he added: "A country can never be
great with a dishonest press" and stormed off the set.
Will dissing Welker and treating her like dirt play well with his base? It might, but we doubt that independents will
think that shouting at and dominating a respected Black woman journalist who was asking Trump to back up his wild claims
is presidential. Here is the video. Watch:
Did Trump throw an actual temper tantrum? It could be, but it is also possible that he planned to
demean Welker all along and the tantrum was just for show. (V)
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