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Trump holds ‘most remarkable presidential press conference in history’

Aug 15, 2017, 2:51 PM | Updated: 5:40 pm

Wow. That was very likely the most remarkable presidential press conference in the history of our nation for so many reasons.

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What we just heard is an incredibly insecure President Trump. There is no question, especially in the earliest parts of the press conference, where he is always talking in superlatives, and about his election victory. There’s so much insecurity.

You also heard a president who is so politically incorrect, but who was speaking truth. And that was making the media mob even more irate. He was talking about both the extreme radical right and the extreme radical left certainly playing a role in so many horrible events. There’s a lot of truth in what he said, but the way he said it…

And then the media side of this press conference. It was a media mob and in the middle of his answer they’re screaming out a challenge to him. Regardless about what you think about Trump individually, there the press had always, always respected the office of the presidency. Nobody would scream out a challenging question in the middle of a Barack Obama answer. The press had decorum and they all agreed with everything Obama said.

This was unbelievable.

President Trump was in incredibly dangerous territory because he was blasted on Saturday for speaking off the cuff and blaming both sides. Then he gave the statement yesterday and his haters blasted him for reading it off the teleprompter. They’re going to blast him no matter what he does, but when he gets into a situation like that, he just gets into incredibly dangerous territory because he is so into the fight with a media mob that he hates. He just speaks in rhetoric and superlatives that are overheated.

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There is a bunch of material his haters are going to pull out of that press conference. We are going to see non-stop coverage. CNN, MSNBC — they are going to brutalize him over that press conference. There’s a lot more worth brutalizing him over, but just the tone — I’ve never heard a presidential press conference like it.

It was entertaining. And I’ve heard from a lot of you who loved every minute of it. Even from many who say they’re not fans of the president but say they loved how he handled the press mob.

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