u.s. press, brian, but the reaction in the room, you know, i ve covered this president when he was a candidate and since the moment he was sworn in. i report is sehaven t seen a pr conference like this one. president trump, the president, seeming to engage in very clearly as you talked about in that quote just there, both sides-ism in a way saying my director of national intelligence tells me one and vladimir putin tells me another. to paraphrase or throwing up his hands. the question now is, as we move ahead, how does this sit with, for example, lawmakers on capitol hill who some of them have been reluctant to come out and speak out against this president. some of them believe that the president is a political ally and want him on their side. that s one of the angles we re watching. we ll also watch how this verbal grenade of a press conference lands in europe with allies internationally, not just, for example, in the eu but others, including canada, mexico,
user jeff gully 49 who the new york times identifies as jeff gullickson. analysis by the new york times found tweets with the n word and the name obama jumped significantly on monday the day of the president s first post. the white house response to all of the vitriol? essentially haters gonna hate. according to senior white house advisor dan pfeiffer we know those sentiments exist but you d be missing a really good chance to engage with a lot of non-trolls if you stayed off the network because of the people doing it it being rage-filled racist tweets. randy cohen, host of npr s ask me another, ophera and dean