President Donald Trump did not take kindly to being asked whether he believed bombing civilian power plants and bridges would constitute war crimes after he threatened to do just that in Iran.
The president, 80, was taking questions from reporters in the Oval Office when he was asked about his threat this week on Truth Social.
“You’re talking about blowing up civilian power plants and bridges. Much of the civilized world would consider that a war crime. Do you?” the reporter asked Trump point blank.
The president paused for a moment before deciding it was probably best not to answer the question at all, which had clearly annoyed him.
“Uhhh, I won’t respond to that question,” Trump said before demanding to know which outlet the reporter worked for.
“The New York Times,” the reporter responded.
“I figured so; the failing New York Times,” Trump said before turning away.
HE ordered the targeting of civilians (remember the girls school?) and civilian infrastructure. War criminals are held to account. If you don’t wanna be a war criminal held to account, stop doing war crimes.
I’m confused. Did he get BLASTED or SLAMMED at all?
no, I think he was RIPPED and perhaps BLISTERED
He gets BLASTED and SLAMMED by his Saudi Jet Buddies every plane ride.
Donnie loves him some Dubai chocolate.
HE WAS DEVASTATED! Oh what embarrassment! (And still no arrest)
He wasnt cornered. He was asked a question, refused to answer and nobody else asked the same thing.
Journalists in America are fucking cowards
All the news outlets are owned by right wing billionaires
True but if all their journalists are either being banned from the whitehouse for asking difficult questions or are quitting in protest then they’ll probably be doing a cost benefit analysis to determine what is going to effect them financially
It’s more about the fact that reporters who ask questions like that don’t find their way back into the press room.
So what is their purpose.
This. I served as the Opinion Editor of my college newspaper. I hung around students who saw themselves as “real” journalists and they saw it as their duty to annoy the living hell out of administrators and others, often in defiance of the faculty representative in the paper office. I knew guys who would just walk into board meetings uninvited. They’d corner the university president. They’d go to meetings and ask questions that the administrators clearly did not want to answer and then push on them to give an answer. Freedom of the Press is not something that is comfortable. It will have push-back, the laws designed to protect it have to be activated from time-to-time. What’s been the most successful tool of curtailing the “Fourth Estate” in modern politics is not silencing so much as fostering a space where the press never use their freedoms.
Money?
The US - where anything more than the gentlest of softball questions is hard hitting journalism.
War criminals are held to account.
Not if they’re American.
The Hague Invasion Act ensures that will never happen.
Neither are child rapists, apparently.
An empty threat if we’re being honest. The economic and political fallout would be worse for the ruling class than any arrests could ever be.
I love it when they include this asshole’s age after his name. Just to draw attention to the fact that not only is he a raging unhinged narcissistic lunatic, but and old raging unhinged narcissistic lunatic.
It’s clickbait. At first glance, one hopes the rest of the headline announces his death. We are let down each time.
LOCK HIM UP
BURY HIM DEEP.
Cornered? Bruh, he doesn’t care, at all. War crimes really only matter when there is accountability involved. The United States government and military will never acknowledge nor accept responsibility for the numerous war crimes it has committed, past or present.
Who reads these articles and responds “Yo they got him good! XD”.
Israel commits war crimes daily, and nothing happens. In other conflicts throughout the world, rape is used as a weapon of war, children are forced to carry AK’s. Let’s corner those leaders! We’ll show them!
Kony 2012 amounted to a fucking dead meme in the end, so people dont even give a shit about child soldiers either anymore.
No use cornering someone who can noclip through walls though
He doesn’t noclip. He has a massive team who simply carries him pass obstacles.
before demanding to know which outlet the reporter worked for.
“I figured so”
Next time they should respond by asking him to take a guess first
“Trump, 80…” Gets me every time
War criminals are held to account.
When did that start? It seems to me that only happens to the poor ones. It’s the same enforcement standard as any other law.
When did that start?
Past (none were poor):
Recent war-crime prosections:
Those guys needed to be removed for US interests in Africa.
Have we prosecuted any rich war criminals recently? It is telling that you have to go back to the Nazis, 80+ years ago was the last time that happened.
The ICC has prosecuted 54 individuals for war crimes, and 47 of them have been from Africa. Do you think war crimes are only happening in Africa? Or are the rest of the world’s war criminals getting away with it?
Do you actually think we will see a trial for the biggest war criminals like Trump and Netanyahu?
Well, the US withdrew from the ICC, but here is a list of everyone convicted of war crimes (rich countries included).
Not only will they not, the US will use force to make sure about that. The only reason Trump isn’t labeled a war criminal by the ICC is because he’d probably bomb the Netherlands directly after. Or Belgium, as if he cared or knew.
And he’s still invincible, due to cowards in Washington and the media.
I really wish he spends his final days in American prison without anyone visiting him
Sorry, that won’t happen. He’s in power for life.
When I read “Trump, 80” there is only one word I expect to follow.
Yup, same, “…fell into a volcano”.
“…trampled to death by a group of particularly unruly toddlers.”
“Shat out his own kidney”
He deserves to be put in the best prison in Europe with the best psychiatric help for the rest of his life
I’d rather we build a prison on Europa and send him there.
Fuck that. I’m not building fuck all for PeDonald.
Strap him to a rocket to Europa with a hammer and nails and tell him to build his own damn prison.
“but but but trump! can’t you simply threaten everyone that doesn’t agree with your words and actions? then they’ll all be happy and love you!”
