President Donald Trump’s Thursday press conference led to an interesting back and forth with black radio correspondent April Ryan.
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“I was all set to have that meeting”.
But, continuing to interrupt Ryan as she said “I’m just a reporter”, Trump added: “Are they friends of yours?”
“Are they friends of yours?” he asked “Let’s go”.
Jackson Lee went on to say that a “possible meeting [with Trump] will be coming”.
“Are you going to include the Congressional Black Caucus?”. Trump said he did want to meet with them and asked reporter April Ryan, who is black, if she would set it up.
“He wanted it”, Trump responded. “I can’t have that meeting, ‘” the Washington Post reported.
CLEAVER: I don’t think he had any idea and I’ve looked at that tape over and over again, and he was like, what in the world are you asking me? Cummings himself said the meeting was never called off, merely postponed for reasons having nothing to do with partisan politics.
At the time, educator and activist Kelly Wickham Hurst wrote: “Wondering if #TheAfricanAmericans are meeting up tomorrow somewhere in the inner city”. Trump said it was “not a fair question”, told the reporter to “sit down”, talked about how he isn’t personally anti-Semitic, and blamed his “opponents” from “the other side” for anti-Semitism. “Every White House has someone to deal with this kind of meeting or this kind of bringing together of people”.
The president raved and ranted his way through another press conference on Thursday where he barked out the tracks off his greatest hits album – from the “dishonest media” to Hillary Clinton’s “incompetence”. The caucus said although it got no response to that letter, Trump did reach out Thursday and that plans for a meeting are now in the works.
Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), who is black, later explained that Trump simply made all of this up. “In fact, we did very well, relative to other people, as a Republican”.
Trump also somehow equated his ratings and his self-worth, saying “I’m really not a bad person, by the way…” “That is not her responsibility to set up a meeting”.
Kamara Jones, a CBC spokeswoman, said the group sent Trump a letter – dated January 19 – inviting him to speak, but hasn’t heard back from the President or his team.
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“I was sitting there, I could have asked questions on Russian Federation as well”, Ryan said. “Very nice guy”, Trump said of Cummings.
