Joshua Holland
Joshua Holland  ·  3 months ago
If our political press didn't instinctively normalize Trump and edit his ramblings into something linear and semi-coherent, I think his consistent inability to answer a simple question would be a much bigger story than a normal candidate not doing a formal presser in two weeks.

Has he *ever* given an intelligible answer to a question? It's weird not to.

Note that Haake says he only posted this because he knew *the question* was hard to follow.

#Media #trump #Election2024

Garrett Haake posts an excerpt of a transcript because he “understand[s] the questions at today's news conference were very hard to hear": +++ON BANNING MIFEPRISTONE +++ 14;54;47 HAAKE: There are other things the federal government can do, not just a ban. Would you direct your FDA, for example, to revoke access to mifepristone? That's one of the things that's been discussed. 14:54:54 TRUMP: You could do things that will be - would supplement absolutely and those things are pretty open and humane, but you have to be able to have a vote. And all I want to do is give everybody a vote, and the votes are taking place right now as we speak - 14;55;11 HAAKE: Is that something that you would consider? 14;55;11 TRUMP: There are many things on a humane basis that you can do outside of that, but you also have to give a vote, and the people are going to say -
Garrett Haake posts an excerpt of a transcript because he “understand[s] the questions at today's news conference were very hard to hear": +++ON BANNING MIFEPRISTONE +++ 14;54;47 HAAKE: There are other things the federal government can do, not just a ban. Would you direct your FDA, for example, to revoke access to mifepristone? That's one of the things that's been discussed. 14:54:54 TRUMP: You could do things that will be - would supplement absolutely and those things are pretty open and humane, but you have to be able to have a vote. And all I want to do is give everybody a vote, and the votes are taking place right now as we speak - 14;55;11 HAAKE: Is that something that you would consider? 14;55;11 TRUMP: There are many things on a humane basis that you can do outside of that, but you also have to give a vote, and the people are going to say -
Garrett Haake posts an excerpt of a transcript because he “understand[s] the questions at today's news conference were very hard to hear": +++ON BANNING MIFEPRISTONE +++ 14;54;47 HAAKE: There are other things the federal government can do, not just a ban. Would you direct your FDA, for example, to revoke access to mifepristone? That's one of the things that's been discussed. 14:54:54 TRUMP: You could do things that will be - would supplement absolutely and those things are pretty open and humane, but you have to be able to have a vote. And all I want to do is give everybody a vote, and the votes are taking place right now as we speak - 14;55;11 HAAKE: Is that something that you would consider? 14;55;11 TRUMP: There are many things on a humane basis that you can do outside of that, but you also have to give a vote, and the people are going to say -
Joshua Holland
Joshua Holland  ·  3 months ago
“Watching a full presidential Trump press conference while visiting the US this week I realised how much the reporting of Trump necessarily edits and parses his words, to force it into sequential paragraphs or impose meaning where it is difficult to detect.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/20/as-a-foreign-reporter-visiting-the-us-i-was-stunned-by-trumps-press-conference