Trump Explodes on Reporter: 'You Haven't Asked Me One F-cking Positive Question'
“You haven’t asked me one fucking positive question,” he said. “All of this. What about this? What about that? What about that? What about this? All negative.”
The president had been asked about whether Mitch McConnell should resign from the Senate because of his health issues. Trump responded by indicating that videos of McConnell struggling were a “disappointment to a lot of Republicans,” before noting that “Sleepy Joe gave pardons to everybody.” He then exploded, questioning why they were asking about the White House renovations so much, and griping that they hadn’t asked him about Venezuela. Time pointed out that they talked about Venezuela at length earlier in the interview.
“I don’t understand. I’m sitting here. I’ve done all this stuff,” Trump said. “I took the White House and made it beautiful again.”
Here's a positive question about his deeds that a reporter should ask:
Mr. President, how good did it feel to rape children?
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It’s not the reporters job to ask you a “positive” question you fucking pedophile.
‘The most uneducated buffoon in history stands at a podium, bloated with self-importance, lips pursed like a carnival barker ready to sell turd milk to the unsuspecting. He grins a grotesque smirk stretched across his face as he scrawls his name onto a hollow decree, a sham celebration of the dismantling of knowledge itself. The Department of Education falls, not with a bang, but with wheezing verbs, suffocated under the weight of his own staggering ignorance. Surrounding him are the usual suspects: cowards in expensive suits, servile sycophants clapping like trained seals, and racist opportunistic ghouls picking clean the bones of democracy. Liars, fools, and thieves all parasites fattening themselves on the hardships of the many. They stand in rigid formation, dead-eyed and soulless, their allegiance sworn not to country, not to principle, but to power, and the dark, festering rot that clings to it. And there he is the convicted wrong, the living embodiment of septic tank spew, his voice a noxious fog of grift and grievance. He lectures the world on right and wrong, irony clawing at the walls, desperate to escape the grotesque theatre of his moral void. The stomach turns, the air curdles, and for a moment, history itself recoils watching, in horror, as the great American experiment teeters on the precipice, led by a man who couldn't spell "precipice" if his life depended on it.’
You haven’t done one fucking positive thing.
Edit: …on purpose
If the world is lucky he might do one soon.
Die?
The Trump The
No one who speaks like a complete fucking idiot could be an evil man
Thank you, Mr Worf.
Eat any good books lately?
The high gas prices are making EVs appealing, even without subsidies.
OK but he hasn’t done a positive thing on purpose. 😂
I've got a nice etrike. I haven't tried to get it on the train yet, but if I can I will be able to access most of Northern California, instead of the 30 mile radius around me
Honestly I only use the car like once a week, and it's for a rehearsal I could probably take the train to
Just avoid taking that on during commute time. Those things don’t fit compactly into the bike rack, and they piss everyone off during commute hours.
The fact that I exist pisses a lot of people off so honestly if they can't make that small an accommodation, it's on them
I guess is depends on how busy your train system is. In my city we’re packed in like sardines during commute hours, and during those busy times those things create situations where people can’t get in and out and properly.
Technically the train conductor and police are supposed to keep an eye out for that shit and make sure bikes don’t block aisles and doors, but they don’t and the wide and long bikes often block mobility when trains are packed.
I commute with something pretty slim that easily tucks into the train racks.
That's not quite true.. he did have the flags lowered to half mast for a week when Dolly Parton passed. Besides that one thing, yes.. you are correct.
I highly doubt that was done on his order. More likely, everyone was going to do it anyway and he just took credit. Because that's all he ever does. Fucking useless trash. JUST DIE ALREADY YOU OLD FUCK!
I think he also passed an executive order that made abuse of an animal a felony. So like... 2 positive things and 100,000 negative things. Pretty much equal.
yeah, but his FBI is now gonna be staffed by animal rapists, so . . .
Once is a coincidence. Twice? Basically Gandhi.
...he shares a few proclivities with Gandhi, in fact.
Whats his angle?
It wasn’t kinky enough, had to make it illegal.
he was only doing that because of his own image and the negative press and backlash had he not done so.
I would love for a reporter to respond that way to him, dead-pan style.
If outlets are gonna get banned anyway they might as well go for it and say it.
He thinks stealing their oil is an accomplishment
Their dirty oil that we can’t even use
Nah he can sell it and put it in an account in a qatari bank that the government may or may not control. That counts as we right?
C'mon, don't be so pessimistic.
He increased the price of oil significantly and (fingers crossed) permanently.
This lead to the biggest push towards renewable energy powdered consumer devices than any president before him.
he got COVID that one time...that was decent day
And then there was that time he "mysteriously" disappeared for a weekend or two weeks or something
Seeing that helicopter haul him away filled me with hope.
Should ask what good does he think he has done. Let the man dig his own grave.
his mind lives in a fantasy world, he thinks he's the best person to ever lived in the history of the world
"he made the white house beautiful again" didn't you hear?
There's already enough material out there that he's dug to the other side of the globe.
That's just not true. What about the times he got nearly assassinated?
The "nearly" thing is the problem
You haven't done one positive thing
Well then do something positive for once, you stupid Narcissistic fuck!
It should be spelled Nazicissistic for the orange fuck stain's particular variety of toxic narcissism
If you're a good person all questions can be positive questions!
Did you even say thank you?
Mamdani absolutely knew what that video was going to be used for.
Maybe they should ask positive questions like "When will you commit suicide?"
Until recently, I wanted Trump to join Our Lord Jesus Christ as promptly as possible.
Now... I kind of dig it. He is openly legally impaired, with sagging stroke face and hungry piggy eyes; everything he does is excruciatingly humiliating for all Americans.
So, now, I want him to live out the rest of his term, and publicly rant and suffer and bloat and curse the world with screaming rages. I want everyone to watch.
I want the whole world to see... THIS is why you limit the powers of a President. THIS is why you should remove your Nixon's from office. LOOK AT THIS
Yeah, no. The rest of the world was sick of this cunt before he even made it to president.
“I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016 and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic, morally vacant, and psychologically mangled he is. I do not wonder anymore. He won for that exact reason. He was not a candidate. He was a mirror. If you were a racist, you found your guy. If you were a misogynist, you found your guy. If money was your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart was armoured shut, you found your guy. If you mocked disabled people, you found your guy. If you hated intelligent people, you found your guy. If you were a rapist, you found your guy. If you enjoyed golden showers with Russian sex workers, you found your guy. If you had done absolutely nothing to confront your emotional wreckage, you found your guy. If you were a serial cheater, you found your guy. If you were a perpetual bankrupt, you found your guy. If you stiffed honest workers, you found your guy. If you were a conman, you found your guy. If you mocked people’s appearances, you found your guy. If you longed for a toxic Daddy, you found your guy. If you were dissociated and disembodied, you found your guy. If you were unconscionable in every economic dealing, you found your guy. If you lied as naturally as breathing, you found your guy. If you had never eaten a green vegetable, you found your guy. If you were a white supremacist, you found your guy. If your ego contained a hole so large not even the presidency could fill it, you found your guy. If you were a sociopath who cared not one molecule about other humans, you found your guy. If he had only two of these traits, he never would have won. He won because he had hundreds of them, and millions of people recognized themselves in at least one. This has never been about Trump. It has always been about the people who finally had their worst instincts validated. Trump did not create the cruelty, he licensed it. He handed out permission slips for hate. He is merely a symptom of a far deeper disease: collective toxicity. If there is one sentence that explains Trump’s power, it is this: “He says the things I’m thinking.” That is the part that should chill the spine. Who knew that tens of millions of Americans were thinking such unconscionable things about their fellow citizens? Who knew how many white men felt so threatened by women and challenged by minorities that they were ready to torch democracy to feel big again? Who knew that after decades of apparent progress on race and gender, so many people were living in seething resentment, waiting for a demagogue to legitimize their worst selves and convert their bitterness into political power? We were living in a fool’s paradise. We aren’t anymore." — Michael Jochum
They dont fucking care bro they dont want the country to do well, they just want to hit it big on the next scam and retire to some third world country where they can get cheap prostitutes, that's what trump voters want they don't give a shit he's ruining the country.
People, especially Americans, are not going to learn a lesson from Trump embarrassing his country. Things will get a whole lot worse before they get better.
Those who voted for him will vote for the next, more coherent, directly vile version of him. One that does exactly what dictators have done before.
Personally, I want him to live long enough to prosecute his end of a 2nd American Civil War. The corruption and chaos he would cause the Dogey Confederacy, would save the lives of many good people.
The opportunity to do a Reconstruction 2.0 and clearing the board of fascism, also holds great appeal.
This will never happen unfortunately
Funny way of saying put Nixon in prison
"I took the White House and made it beautiful again"
Nobody asked for that and nobody cares but him.
Besides, he turned the east wing into a crater and the rest into a gaudy, tasteless travesty.
Destroyed the lawn for his white trash celebration
Plus, it's objectively wrong.
The White House is considerably more ugly and tacky looking than before he was elected.
Another day, another lie from Trump.
Trump's personal aesthetic is brash, vulgar, and bold, characterized by an obsession with gold-gilded interiors, glossy surfaces, and faux-historic finishes. He simply has no taste. Look at this shithole!
Apparently they did care.
Says the dude who pardoned J6ers?
If we posted every pic of him sleeping on the job we'd probably crash lemmy.
Keep in mind this is the same guy who was threatened with contempt of court like 2 dozen times for falling asleep when he was convicted of 38 felonies
But he still calls him Sleepy Joe. This is why Hitler took amphatamines.
Is there a /c/sleepytrump?
Be the change you want to see
I just want to see one of these reporters, or anyone really, break decorum and just go off on this motherfucker to his face. He’s just a big fucking coward when it comes down to it. He just never has to confront it, and that’s a shame.
We need new shoe throwers
If theres one thing Bush Jr could do, it was dodge those shoes
W dodged those shoes like someone who'd had shoes thrown at them before.
Dodged those shoes like the only president dumber than him dodged the draft
You think W was dumber than Ford?
I would have to think about that one... I honestly forgot about Gerald Ford. You know who didn't forget about Gerald Ford? Tom Brokaw.
I was actually pretty impressed at his reflexes, TBH. Not that the job really requires it (or it usually doesn't), but he was pretty nimble there.
I think donnie would take it full in the face and not even know what happened, since he's about half-asleep all the time. Dozey donnie, they call him. Everyone's saying.
Shoes, pretzels, parachuting to his own premature victory party... That man survived a lot of self-inflicted danger.
I hated Bush’s guts, but I had to admit: that was impressive. Kind of like Wendi Deng thwarting the would-be pie-thrower
Also pretty impressive was the Iraqi foreign minister blocking the second shoe. Quick reflexes
Trump knows how to dodge the draft.
At least Bush was fast enough to dodge it. I’m pretty sure Trump would have a Amberjack logo pressed into his forehead.
Yeah. And he'd probably doze off right after....
Seriously. What are they going to do, kick them out of the White House Press Pool?
Oh wait....
He gets booed anytime he's in public.
I’m sure he’s so acclimated to that, that he doesn’t even hear it anymore. I’m talking about an aggressive, in-his-face, in-his-safe-place, insilting verbal confrontation.
Stroke out faster, pedo.
i got banned off of reddit for saying this exact comment
I can't imagine any other result from a microblog that turned Publicly Traded Company.
Think of the risk to the investors, putting out language like that!
Well stop advocating that his own body do violence against him! What if he had read your comment and his impressionable brain obeyed you?
😆
He's only impressionable if you give him a compliment. How about "Stroke out already, pedo. Also why are you so handsome what's your secret?"
That ought to do the trick. You don't have to mean it because I doubt he's ever received a genuine compliment from anybody who isn't already in the Trump cult in his entire life.
It'd make my day if one of the reporters had replied "We're not all here to kiss your ass, pig boy."
I'd laugh if they started taking up mumbling stuff under a cough (but catching it on the microphone for later, unattributed) like "quiet piggy!" and "shut up donnie".
Or... You've not done one good thing to ask about.
This is so much a standard part of the job. He not only can’t take it, he’s an idiot to be surprised by it.
"Maybe you should do something positive to ask about, eh?"
"31% is at least still a positive number".
Imagine a world with negative polling numbers...
My company sometimes reports producing negative amounts of product if an outside contractor reports finishing losses on the previous month's bumper production, and that is subtracted from the current month's anemic production.
With polls, maybe we could construct something where people are surveyed on a recurring basis and response rate variation can make the math funny.
I have ONE.
He's been president for a total of
86 years, and there's been ONE policy that I've seen him pass thatIs actually a good thing, I think
Isn't something that I would expect someone to do just by virtue of having a brain. (e.g., Operation Warp Speed was good, but also I would expect any moderately intelligent person to do the same.)
That one thing is establishing a sovereign wealth fund.
The only thing I think was good was pushing NATO to step up their spending. Look at us go now. Most members are meeting their commitments and we took it so seriously we're starting to build our own industrial defence bases, with blackjack and hookers!
"Any updates on when you're gonna take a nap in the forever box?"
It will become a national holiday the day he died. Americans will make the annual trip to Florida to take a swing at his unearthed casket.
“Mr President, do you think the world will be better off when you are dead?”
That question carries the possibility that he'd wiggle out and say something like, "the world would be much diminished without me!"
Question should eliminate that route by asking something like "what is the most substantial benefit the world will see when you die?"
They'd probably arrest them and claim it was a threat
Just fucking die already you Epstein class fucking rapist.
America will have decades or more before the rest of the world trusts them ever again, if ever.
Well there is that one theater play where Trump drops dead of a heart attack. No such luck in our reality, though.
I'm anticipating Kissinger-like longevity.
EVERY reporter in the pool should ask Epstein questions only.
Whether it's Trump or Schumer, exclusively Epstein files.
It would be fun to answer in a completely deadpan voice "That is correct Mr. President, I have only asked you negative questions, this is because they are the most relevant to your presidency."
Don't forget the Sir.
"Mr. President, can you, Vice President Vance and the entire line of succession just resign already?"
You haven’t done one positive thing?
Now, now, let's not be crazy.
He did legalize hemp in his first term.
That was nice
(nothing since then womp womp)
Then undid it in his second term. There's a lot of stuff like that.
Where's all the hemp stuff by now? I remember hearing how it was so great and useful.
Ill never, ever get all the hype over hemp
It was a legal loophole created that basically just meant changing the labels slightly and now head shops nationwide (w/o specific state laws) could sell 'THC-A' flowers, since they didn't have much actual decarboxylated THC it flew under the radar for some time.
“I took the White House and made it beautiful again.”
As beautiful as a meth heads trailer.
Imagine thinking that ordering a renovation using tax dollars is some kind of achievement.
It's depressing really. I hope this era will be documented. We're due for an Idiocracy style movie of it because at this point it's beyond that. I guess the only thing missing is "Ow My Balls!"
Hey! I'm batin' in here.
Butter has multiple uses =)
Quiet piggy.
One thing I learned growing up with an authoritarian father, you never challenge them, otherwise all hell breaks loose. I eventually learned that when dad's voice got that distinctive tone and volume that indicated negative emotions, it was best to get up and leave and go to my room. This doesn't work for a US President however, though it may work for a King.
One thing I learned about bullies is that they continue bullying until you stop them. I was fortunate in being able to train, and also getting my growth spurt a bit earlier than them. Because of those, the tide turned.
And luckily my parents were decent people who never pulled any of that authoritarian shit on me. Sorry you had to endure that.
One thing I learned, for some reason being a bully magnet, was: know your bully.
Stopping them requires a different approach for each bully. Some respond to direct force, some respond to a lack of response, some respond to being verbally humiliated in front of their peers. I haven’t figured out the best one for Trump yet.
It's in a field in Pennsylvania
Donnie seems to have all the traits of a narcissist.
Ever try to get a narcissist to apologize in good faith (not the "I'm sorry if you took offense" non-apology, I mean) for something they did, and they know they should be ashamed of and that they know you know?
Narcissists are great at putting on a big show, love-bombing people they just met in many instances, and people that are rather naive or unfamiliar with this sort of thing will be taken in by it, and could not possibly believe that person could ever be nasty or vicious.
People that have to be around them a lot and try to nail them down on the veracity of something they are saying, or actions they took that they don't want to own up to?
You'll see that narcissist act like a cornered animal. Everything will be turned around on the person speaking, and the person trying to nail them down? Lucky to get a word in edge-wise amidst the person talking/yelling over them, usually consisting of abusive language and even threats of violence.
Reporter: "Have you been bad? Have you been a bad boy, Mr. President? Have you been misbehaving?"
Trump: [ explodes ]
"What do you think your father and mother would say if they saw how naughty you were being right now?"
The problem with 'flooding the zone with shit' is that there is an entire zone of shit to be clarified by people who have the job of clarifying shit.
Let me guess - it was a woman.
I can't tell because of the paywall, I will look for another source and edit this comment if I am wrong.
EDIT: I stand corrected
here is the non paywalled article I read: https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-drops-f-bomb-while-211548648.html
You can tell because he didn't say anything sexist, or insult their looks
Here is the transcript of the interview.
https://time.com/article/2026/10/01/donald-trump-2026-interview-transcript/
Since when it’s acceptable for politicians, not just some politicians but presidents use such language
Since he was elected president after the "Grab 'em by the pussy" video came out?
The magical 'R' makes it all ok in their book
It's not their job to glaze him like the chubby lil Krispy Kreme Klanner he is.
I know itll never happen but perhaps he should do something the people actually want and stop doing shit that benefits him and his family
ugh drop dead already pedo fuck
Headlines starting with like "Trump explodes" give a hope that is immediately dashed upon finishing the sentence
They should have asked him how much he enjoys getting pounded in the ass by Israel. That is positive.
and how good did it feel to first push his ex wife down the stairs and then burrying her on your golf course as a pathetic power move?
God I wish this headline was literal.
When this piece of vile shit finally croaks, I will finally feel a momentary level of satisfactory relief…
Ha ha, what a bitch prez is. He should just die. Naturally of course.
Honestly I'm expecting something supernatural at this point. Maybe he'll explode into a mass of tentacles on live TV or split his seams and it turns out he was bugs the whole time.
Maybe a jet engine would darko Donnie and spare us the trouble
He is so weak. Everybody knows it now.
This guy needs to be fired. Into the center of the sun.
It's cheaper to just send him out of the solar system.
Unintuitively, it’s actually harder to send someone into the sun as it is to send them farther out. Rather than incur significant expense by trying to send him into the sun, let’s just let him slowly freeze in the cold of space.
https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/its-surprisingly-hard-to-go-to-the-sun/
I don't care what it costs, the sun would be so satisfying.
I wish this guy could have been removed from the life he was living in his 20s and gotten some serious help. Maybe practiced Buddhism and become a monk to lay bare and put to rest all his demons, rather than continue to gorge them. Were I a better person, I could probably feel sympathy for whatever soul he has left, tortured continuously by his crushing insecurity. But I'm not, instead relishing his realization that he'll eventually die completely and utterly unloved by the entire world. It's unfortunate he'll probably try to feed his demons before that happens with as many human lives as he can. Wonder if anyone will resist his insane order to use nuclear weapons when it eventually comes before January 2029.
Erroneous beliefs. There is no soul, first of all (if I'm wrong, the burden of proof is on you).
But even if you weren't being literal, this man is empty inside.
The tantrum at not receiving any positive feedback hinted to me there's something in there that cares about recognition and appreciation. I'm no scholar of the human soul, but something about that response signaled to me there is a broken and tortured consciousness down there seeking validation through outside admiration. If the shell were entirely soulless, I would have expected indifferent disdain. Instead, I sense a frustrated child trying to win attention from his parents. The absence of adoration is under his skin and eroding the foundation of his entire ego as he senses the finality of his existence approaching. Should have stuck to being a rich private citizen, where the fawning was easy to buy and criticism easy to ignore.
I'm not sure narcissists really get better. Is that a thing? I don't really know.
In my experience, none of them have the self-awareness, seemingly, to seek out self-improvement to end their narcissism. And why would they? They've been operating that way all their lives, and some people are just users of others, so why would they want to fix something they figure is just a way of life? And that's people without billions allegedly to their name.
In many cases it just seems to fly under the radar. Siblings, co-workers, parents, kids, spouses - they all eventually figure out there is something "wrong" with the narcissist, and that it is not actually them at fault. The narcissist usually perfects the art of gaslighting others into thinking they are imagining stuff.
I remember a bit in the daily show where they went back in time to do that but everyone had lame haircuts so time travelers opted out.
What a fuckin' tool.
I guess donnie dumb-dumb doesn't know how reporting works.
No clothes, no wits, no good
Cuz shit sucks. You're a poor leader, but as a rich person, you surround yourself with yes men so you never have to experience the consequences of your transgressions. And now you're taking money from my pocket.
Pure ego.
*id
Is "F-cking" a politically correct word, Mr. President?
Anything he does is politically correct because he's a the god-emperor of the Republicans.
Only in their one-sided, US-gov limited mind. No where else the world, including all US towns and corporate boards, modern or historical, tolerate such language.
Yup. But the whole meaning behind "politically correct" is the way you have to behave to be elected. He has been twice.
Twice is meaningless compared to the number of cases I just mentionned.
Grampa Dementia strikes again!
You have done one positive fucking thing you orange clown
The only positive thing I remember him doing was losing the 2020 election. And he couldn't even do that right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzh7RtIJKZk
No video?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xfr64zoBTAQ
Haha awesome
Oh good one!
Crazy that they had this clip 16 years ago!
Ho ho! Alla yall got what you voted for. Thanks for nothing, jerks.
What are you on about here? If you are implying only voting democrat would suffice, fuck you.
Democrat was the only option that wouldn't result in Trump
Circular logic. We know corporatist dems can't reliably win, yet we support nominating them, without even a fucking contest, with 4 months to go, and I'm the asshole?
This argument is so played out, if you are still singing it, I have to question either your intellect, and or your sincerity.
We did vote for a Democrat in 2020, yet here we are.
Should have voted in 2024 instead of whining that Kamala wasn't good enough for Palestine
That's a non-sequitur, and the polling and surveys show that the Gaza issue was only a small part of why Harris lost, anyway. Righteous indignation feels good, I'm sure, but avoiding the real issues is a losing political strategy. To the point, a Democrat did win in 2020, yet he and we did little to alter our trajectory into authoritarianism.
Well, if you can only choose between to vote for this sack of shit and literally anything else the right choice seems quite obvious.
One leads to the other. By the time Kamala was anointed, the race was already lost. Admit it!
You should totally vote green party. That'd be hilarious.
You should manipulate and bully us into choosing, or acquiescing, to candidates that suck and can't win.
Bully huh? Go away, the adults are talking.
So adult you are wrong every time and never admit it? No one believes your bullshit outside the sheep now, no one. You are a tool of the enemy.