he has a right to respond to. and that he he does that regularly. and you don t think that s a threat to anyone? you don t think that s sending a message, do that to the media, do that to cnn? no. i don t. i don t think so. i think that importantly here he s a genuine president, expressing himself genuinely. to be honest, i think that s why he was elected. here we are. this is where we are, kyle. i mean, there is the g-20 starts on friday. the president spoke with the presidents of china and japan last night about the north korean nuclear threat. here we are talking about titterment tom bossert twitter. tom bossert says it s not condoning violence, do you think it is? you know, it s one of those things, it s hard to read what this president means. it can be taken that way. i don t think that i think that donald trump means this as a joke and that this is all a big joke to him. i think he doesn t realize that some will not take this as a joke but will see this as a call to
said on sunday that he s been troubled by the president s recent attacks on the news media. there s an important distinction to draw between bad stories or crappy coverage and the right that citizens have to argue and complain about that, and trying to weaponize distrust. the first amendment is the beating heart of the american experiment, and you don t get to separate the freedoms that are in there. for more we re joined by kyle felcher, breaking news editor at the washington examiner. good morning to you. ben sass, a critic of the president says, we re living in an america of perpetual adolescence. however, it appears a 71-year-old man is the adolescent setting the tone. here is someone from his administration, tom bossert, homeland security adviser, talking about the president s twitter habits with abc yesterday. i think that no one would perceive that as a threat. i hope they don t. i do think that he s beaten up in a way on cable platforms that
the press, we must speak out. the president ramped things up starting with a personal insult to a television host on thursday and escalating it with a video on sunday. white house officials have not responded to requests for comment, asking if they stand by their statement that the president has never encouraged violence in any form. the only administration official who has responded to the president s tweet is homeland security adviser tom bossert when he appeared on abc sunday morning. here s bossert s reaction to the president s tweet i think that no one would perceive that as a threat. i hope they don t. i think he s beaten up in a way on cable platforms that he has a right to respond to. he does that regularly and you don t think that s a threat to anyone? you don t think that s sending a message, do that to the media, do that to cnn? no. i don t think so. i think that importantly here he s a genuine president expressing himself genuinely. to be honest, i think that s w
i think it s disconnect in his mind between what is okay to do on twitter and something that you can do as a joke. when you re president of the united states, you are implicitly the spokesperson for the country. people will look to this as a form of acceptable behavior. do i think that donald trump himself thinks that journalists should be bodyslammed? i don t think so. i think he s not sending the right message because people could take this as a call to action. do you think there is part of a strategy or reflective of the attention span of a twitter troll-in-sdme hie- troll-in - troll-in-chief? i don t know if it s that he doesn t have the attention span to focus on issues ocean r if yw like tom bossert went on the show to talk about the g-20 and