his goon push jorge ramos out of a press conference. he likes physical intimidation. people were physically intimidated on the sidewalk in front of trump tower during the campaign. their placards were taken out of their hands and thrown away. he likes to have people intimidated reputationally, financially. you name it, he ll use the trick to go after somebody. david, you say that trump operates like a white collar crime family? yeah. well, michael s right. we ve seen these examples of him having his bodyguards push people around. donald is really in the business of ripping people off using a pen. and representational threats are absolutely at the core of this. i watched donald trump march into the new york times newsroom one day with a whole flank of lawyers and pr people. i knew exactly why he was there. it was try and persuade the times that i shouldn t be allowed to write about him, because he only wanted people writing about him that didn t understand that whatever he
this kind of income, this kind of power, this kind of glamour, but for donald trump. so then they become very attached to him. you know, you see this in this fellow keith shiller, who s his his body guy. his body guy. he attached hills to trump around 1990. and has been there ever since, like a barnacle on the hull of a boat. you know, he just you called him a human blanket or a baby blanket. yes, he s a security blanket for donald trump. you saw him push jorge ramos out of a press conference, physically looming over him and shoving him out of the room. this is the kind of thing trump expects of the people who work for him. it s why the white house is struggling. they don t know they re to adhere to real protocol and common sense and reality as everyone sees it or to follow the president s lead.
trump? sure. mr. trump, if you are president and a member of your cabinet asks you a hard question will you have them removed from the white house. and will it be the same guy that got jorge ramos out. we keep getting great questions on-line. michael barkley, i read this question from him last night. i said this question in the office, i think two days ago, word for word almost. here s what michael barkley read my mind. here s his question for trump. dear mr. trump, why do you say, excuse me, when you really mean, shut up, i m interrupting now. he goes excuse me, like every other paragraph begins with excuse me and then he pushes through. right will this be your first presidential election that you vote in? my second. second as well. old are you? 20. wait a minute, how can you be
against him calling it to task, he threw jorge ramos out of a press conference earlier this week, all you could get the republican candidates to week, b bush said he should have shown him a little more respect. more respect than throwing the walter cronkite of the latino community out of a press conference. it is stunning the double standard that we re seeing. your reaction to white supremacists backing trump? i think we should be fair to candidates. very blunt about this. candidates will attract support from people that they genuinely don t want the support from. that can happen. what you look at is how the candidate responds. what they say. i think donald trump should have very easily been able to say in that interview, look, i don t want the support of anybody who identifies as a white supremacist. i just don t want it. and there israel an historical precedent here. this is where we get the measure of candidates and of partisans.
and tune things up. mo, you are following the tradition of wearing one movie my ties. i am. that is yours. you now own that tie. you are not leaving here with nothing. isabella, off question for donald trump. what is your question? i do. my question is, you recently said that the u.s. economy should be decoupled from china s. how would you deal with the $1.3 trillion of debt the u.s. owes china? would you default on it? such a good question. decoupling is trickier than he seems to recognize. absolutely. mo, your question for donald trump? sure. mr. trump, if you are president and a member of your cabinet asks you a hard question will you have them removed from the white house. and will it be the same guy that got jorge ramos out. we keep getting great questions on-line.