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sheshe2

(83,654 posts) Sat Mar 21, 2020, 10:32 PM Mar 2020

The thing about Peter Alexander's question to Trump about Americans being frightened?

The thing about Peter Alexander's question to Trump about Americans being frightened? The one that prompted Trump to lash out at him as a terrible reporter?

A colleague of Alexander's at NBC News just died of covid-19. - Philip Bump

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The thing about Peter Alexander's question to Trump about Americans being frightened? (Original Post) sheshe2 Mar 2020 OP

Yes, Larry Edgeworth, long time audio tech, Rachel broke down as she was paying tribute to him tulipsandroses Mar 2020 #1

Yes. sheshe2 Mar 2020 #2

And it was a pure softball question mcar Mar 2020 #3

The expression on Alexanders face was incredulous. sheshe2 Mar 2020 #4

tulipsandroses

(5,122 posts)

1. Yes, Larry Edgeworth, long time audio tech, Rachel broke down as she was paying tribute to him

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Sat Mar 21, 2020, 10:48 PM

Mar 2020

last night. Sooner or later, this will hit home to almost all of us in some way. Its only a matter of time. Just as Larry's death has hit the NBC and MSNBC family hard.
The hard thing about it, one of the reporters mentioned is that we've lost a friend and we can't be together to console each other.
Just another way this virus is wreaking havoc. When a loved one dies, people come together, give hugs, hold hands comfort each other.

sheshe2

(83,654 posts)

2. Yes.

Reply to tulipsandroses (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 21, 2020, 11:05 PM

Mar 2020

We can't come together to mourn the dead.

That breaks my heart.

mcar

(42,278 posts)

3. And it was a pure softball question

Reply to sheshe2 (Original post)

Sat Mar 21, 2020, 11:09 PM

Mar 2020

As Alexander himself said afterward. A gimmee. A simple question with a simple answer.

And IMPOTUS blew it. Because he has no compassion. No empathy. He is a malignant narcissist and cares only about himself and his widdle feelings.

sheshe2

(83,654 posts)

4. The expression on Alexanders face was incredulous.

Reply to mcar (Reply #3)

Sat Mar 21, 2020, 11:23 PM

Mar 2020

Don's was an angry and an ugly response. A nasty question?

“What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now and are scared?”

NBC News correspondent Peter Alexander started the exchange by asking Trump whether he “may be giving Americas a false sense of hope” by touting drug therapies that health-care experts have said are unproved as treatments for the coronavirus.

“No, I don’t think so,” Trump replied. “It may work, it may not work. . . . I feel good about. That’s all it is, it’s a feeling.”

Alexander shifted gears by citing the growing toll of the illness and asking Trump, “What do you say to Americans who are watching you right now and are scared?”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/nbcs-peter-alexander-asked-trump-to-reassure-americans-about-coronavirus-trump-berated-him-instead/2020/03/20/f7452a80-6ada-11ea-b313-df458622c2cc_story.html

May he rot in hell.

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