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tHat all the reporters have to bend over to speak into it? Asking for a friend.
NanceGreggs
(27,813 posts)... people are bowing to him as they speak?
Sounds crazy, right? But he IS crazy, so ...
KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,584 posts)MissB
(15,803 posts)Really.
GoCubsGo
(32,074 posts)People have to bend over to speak into it. Makes it seem like they're bowing to him.
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)2naSalit
(86,323 posts)Me.
(35,454 posts)Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)Think about how he (until virus) has made the press scream over helicopter noise nearly every day.
Here's the problem. Some decades ago, the White House Correspondents Association ceded credentialing authority for WH press to the politicos of the press office itself. MISTAKE. Reporters covering Congress have access codified in Senate rules. WH reporters have no such protection.
Now we see a WH that abuses our watchdog free press as no other WH has done. It's maddening.
Doesn't help that the current president of the Correspondents Association, ABC's Jonathan Karl, has a long relationship with Trump and is played like an abused wife.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)to ask long questions. It's Chump's way of minimizing them.
Plus, he's probably hoping some sweet new reporter will make the mistake of wearing a wide-necked or low cut blouse, and he'll get a quick thrill.