{"id":7186,"date":"2012-05-29T21:59:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T04:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7186"},"modified":"2015-12-12T12:52:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T20:52:47","slug":"non-news-of-the-week-donald-trump-makes-ass-of-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7186","title":{"rendered":"Non-News Of The Week: Donald Trump Makes Ass Of Himself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the most insignificant news on this or any day is that Donald Trump made an ass of himself. It would be like reporting that the sun came up. But Trump&#8217;s appearance today on CNN is notable mainly for its comedy value. In an interview with Wolf Blitzer, Trump revealed himself to be an arrogant, ignorant, egotistical, moron with delusions of grandeur. Again, that&#8217;s not exactly news &#8211; except for the part that it was Wolf Blitzer, CNN&#8217;s resident potted plant and icon of blandness who exposed Trump. It doesn&#8217;t really take much.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oC0tq8LSh-o?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The interview began with Blitzer welcoming Trump to the program. That led to Trump launching into a defensive rant without even saying hello.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Trump:<\/strong> I thought your reporter was very inaccurate in his description. And I thought the introduction was totally inappropriate and was actually very dishonest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Blitzer then gave Trump an opportunity to explain specifically what troubled him about the report that preceded the interview. Trump declined and just repeated that he thought the reporter was <em>&#8220;wrong&#8221;<\/em> and was shilling for President Obama. Blitzer gave Trump another chance to explain himself, and Trump weaved and dodged and finally failed to describe a single thing that was wrong with the report.<\/p>\n<p>From there the conversation devolved into name calling. Blitzer observed that Trump&#8217;s defensiveness and evasion was making him sound ridiculous. So Trump responded with a very literal <em>&#8220;I know you are but what am I?&#8221;<\/em> Trump repeatedly commented on Blitzer&#8217;s ratings, as if that had anything to do with the substance of his reporting. He rattled off some false assertions that Obama had told a former publisher that he was born in Kenya. And several times he dismissed the authenticity of Obama&#8217;s birth certificate saying that <em>&#8220;a lot of people don&#8217;t agree with that birth certificate.&#8221;<\/em> That&#8217;s true &#8211; a lot of really stupid people. But when Blitzer asked him to provide a single name, Trump harrumphed that <em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t give names.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have been waiting for someone to ask Trump what became of the investigators that he had sent to Hawaii and Blitzer finally did so. Blitzer played video of Trump saying that <em>&#8220;I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they&#8217;re finding.&#8221;<\/em> So Blitzer asked Trump to reveal what they had found. Trump&#8217;s response: <em>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have to go into old news.&#8221;<\/em> Except that Trump has NEVER revealed what his alleged investigators found, and didn&#8217;t do so today either. The truth is most likely that he never had any investigators. This was another stunt from a reality show clown.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Caps\/foxnation-trump-blitzer.jpg\" alt=\"Fox Nation\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" \/>Contributing to the hilarity is Fox Nation who posted an item about Trump&#8217;s visit with Blitzer with this headline: <em>&#8220;Trump Knocks Wolf Blitzer Into Next Week.&#8221;<\/em> For the Fox Nationalists it literally doesn&#8217;t matter what happens in the real world. They will just slap their headline to the top of it and pretend that everything went their way. It doesn&#8217;t matter that Trump couldn&#8217;t answer a single question and acted like a jerk while desperately trying to avoid any substantive responses. Fox knows that their audience will devour whole whatever Fox tells them. By making up phony headlines they can comfort their glassy-eyed audience who simply can&#8217;t handle the truth.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NK5HzeuUyRs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the most insignificant news on this or any day is that Donald Trump made an ass of himself. It would be like reporting that the sun came up. But Trump&#8217;s appearance today on CNN is notable mainly for its comedy value. In an interview with Wolf Blitzer, Trump revealed himself to be an arrogant, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1],"tags":[612,42,554,400],"class_list":["post-7186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","tag-birther","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-wolf-blitzer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-1RU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":34290,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=34290","url_meta":{"origin":7186,"position":0},"title":"Former FBI Agent On Trump&#8217;s Loyalties: It&#8217;s Trump 1st, Russia 2nd and the Rest of America 3rd","author":"Mark NC","date":"3\/30\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Clint Watts, a fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, appeared before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. 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