What Donald Trump First Press Conference Meant
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For the first time in 167 days, President-elect Donald Trump held a wide-ranging news conference and Americans weren’t the only ones tuning into, citizens of countries around the world watched for clues on how the new administration would impact their lives.
In his speech trump slammed two of the biggest media companies in the country for publishing blockbuster articles claiming that Russia has compromising personal and financial information that it could use to blackmail him.
Here is all trump said in his speech :
On employment:
“Right now, there are 96 million [people] wanting a job and they can’t get [one],” he said. “You know that story.
The real number. That’s the real number.” No. That’s not “the real number.”
He refused to talk to CNN
On Tuesday afternoon, CNN published an article alleging that US intelligence officials last week presented both President Obama and Trump with a two-page synopsis describing allegations that Russian operatives had sensitive information that would embarrass and undermine Trump, and this is what made Trump angry .
A CNN reporter yelled: “Since you’re attacking us will you give us a question!”
Bullish Trump passed him over, sniping: “Your organisation’s terrible.”
As the reporter kept shouting he said: “Quiet. Quiet. Don’t be rude. I’m not going to give you a question. You are fake news.”
CNN has released a terse statement challenging the President-elect to find any fault with its “carefully-sourced” report.
And the journalist, Jim Acosta, claimed he was told he’d be thrown out of the press conference if he challenged Trump again.
On Russia hacking US
He said “The US is hacked by everybody. That includes Russia and China and everybody. I think it was Russia but we also get hacked by other countries and other people. Russia will have much greater respect for our country when I’m leading it than when other people have led it. He shouldn’t have done it. I don’t believe he’ll be doing it more now.”
On building wall in Mexico
Trump has always said that Mexico will pay them money for building the border wall . but this time Trump admitted that they will not pay us.
“I don’t want to wait… I don’t feel like waiting a year or a year and a half, we’re going to start building.Mexico in some form, and there are many different forms, will reimburse us. That’s gonna happen”.
“Whether it’s a tax or whether it’s a payment, probably less likely that it’s a payment. But it will happen. Mexico will pay for the wall, but it’ll be reimbursed.”
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