ABC barred from Trump’s UK press conference after clash with Australian journalist John Lyons

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/18/abc-barred-from-trumps-uk-press-conference-after-clash-with-australian-journalist-john-lyonsOpen link View original on lemmy.world

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geekwithsoul

piefed.social

Trump accused the reporter of “hurting Australia” with the line of questioning.

“In my opinion, you are hurting Australia very much right now,” Trump said. “And they want to get along with me.

“You know, your leader is coming over to see me very soon. I’m going to tell him about you. You set a very bad tone. You can set a nicer tone.”

Trump subsequently told Lyons: “Quiet.”

That's straight up how mob bosses talk

Echo Dot reply

feddit.uk

Well I'm fairly sure that most mob bosses have a vocabulary somewhat more sophisticated than that of a 6-year-old, but broadly yes.

HumanPenguin reply

feddit.uk

Attitude of a mob boss. Brains of a spoiled toddler refused a juice/dummy.

Geobloke reply

aussie.zone

Fuck off, you're the one who put tariffs on us

Gorram_Reavers reply

lemmy.world

Hopefully he ends up like one. Either in prison or the other one that will get me branded an anti-fascist

Zagorath reply

aussie.zone

Hey are you aware that your account is listed as a bot?

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aussie.zone

Good bot

shalafi reply

lemmy.world

He's from the NYC real estate and construction scene. No surprise he imitates the guys he looked up to, saw as strong.

Gorram_Reavers

lemmy.world

Fuck Trump and fuck the Labour party for caving to him.

Lodespawn reply

aussie.zone

We don't really have a better alternative sadly. Independents tend to either sit between Labor and libs rather than left of Labor or lean hard into libertarianism economicly rather than socially; single issue candidates are usually right wing and/or religious psychopaths; the greens have good policy but are uncompromising on many issues so lose a lot of support due to misalignment with the opinion of the voter majority.

Zagorath

aussie.zone

The responsible thing would be for all media to refuse to deal with him in the meantime.

Echo Dot reply

feddit.uk

He'd like that though. He doesn't like the media asking him questions pointing out inconvenient truths. If mainstream media stopped engaging with him all that would be left is fox, which will broadcast whatever he tells them to.

bufalo1973 reply

piefed.social

They should talk ABOUT Trump but without Trump.

CubitOom

infosec.pub

Asking leaders of the American regime questions is hate speech.

“A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech,” Mr Karl said, to which Mr Trump responded: “She’d probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. It’s hate. You have a lot of hate in your heart.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/trump-free-speech-abc-reporter-charlie-kirk-video-b2827626.html

johnwicksdog

aussie.zone

Maybe as a result we get to see slightly fewer broadcasts of the UK govt capitulating to a spoilt man-baby make it over here in Australia.