Donald Trump’s presidential campaign may not be happy with the former president’s appearance at a convention of Black journalists on Wednesday, based on how it’s spinning the event.
During the interview, which was scheduled to last an hour but was cut off early by Trump staffers, the former president drew gasps when he accused Vice President Kamala Harris, his likely Democratic rival for the White House, of hiding her Black identity and when he attacked a female reporter for being rude after she asked him why Black voters should trust him, among other low points.
Not surprisingly, “trainwreck” became a trending term on social media after the appearance.
Since the Trump camp never likes to admit any mistake ever, it’s no surprise that it issued a statement after the NABJ disaster declaring victory over what it called “Liberal Mainstream Media Malpractice.”
The statement, credited to senior adviser Lynne Patton, said that “members of the media need to make a decision, and answer if their goal is to unite the Country or further divide us.”
Although the journalists on stage asked tough questions about Trump’s actual record, Patton accused them of “unhinged and unprofessional commentary directed toward President Trump” and claimed that “many media elites clearly want to see us remain divided.”
The statement, which can be read in its complete form below, ended with Patton predicting that what she called the “biased and rude treatment from certain hostile members of the media” will “backfire massively” and warned that “you would think that the media would have learned something from their repeat episodes of fake outrage ever since President Trump first came down the escalator in 2015, but some just refuse to ‘get it’”
Although the Trump camp obviously hopes to get things back on track after his train wreck, many people on X, formerly Twitter, don’t seem to be adopting the former president’s view on the NABJ appearance.
You can watch a supercut of the wildest parts of the NABJ appearance below, courtesy of journalist Aaron Rupar.
