Trump To CNN's Jim Acosta: 'Out'
- 6 years ago
President Trump on Tuesday literally showed CNN’s Jim Acosta the door.
President Trump on Tuesday literally showed CNN's Jim Acosta the door. At the close of a press conference with Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, Acosta asked a stream of questions regarding immigration and referenced President Trump's reported controversial comments from the week before. Trump answered Acosta's inquiry about a desire for more immigrants from Norway, saying, "I want them to come in from everywhere. Everywhere." When Acosta asked whether that included places largely inhabited by people of color or "just Caucasian or white countries, sir," Trump said, "out," and pointed at the door. The CNN reporter soon after wrote in a series of tweets, "In Oval Office pool spray, I asked why Trump wants more people to come in from Norway. He said he wants people to come in from everywhere." "When I tried to follow up on this in the Oval Office, Trump told me to get 'out.' We then went to the Roosevelt Room where WH aides obstructed us from asking questions," Acosta further noted. "As I attempted to ask questions in Roosevelt Room of Trump, WH press aides shouted in my face to drown out my questions. I have never encountered that before."
President Trump on Tuesday literally showed CNN's Jim Acosta the door. At the close of a press conference with Nursultan Nazarbayev, the president of Kazakhstan, Acosta asked a stream of questions regarding immigration and referenced President Trump's reported controversial comments from the week before. Trump answered Acosta's inquiry about a desire for more immigrants from Norway, saying, "I want them to come in from everywhere. Everywhere." When Acosta asked whether that included places largely inhabited by people of color or "just Caucasian or white countries, sir," Trump said, "out," and pointed at the door. The CNN reporter soon after wrote in a series of tweets, "In Oval Office pool spray, I asked why Trump wants more people to come in from Norway. He said he wants people to come in from everywhere." "When I tried to follow up on this in the Oval Office, Trump told me to get 'out.' We then went to the Roosevelt Room where WH aides obstructed us from asking questions," Acosta further noted. "As I attempted to ask questions in Roosevelt Room of Trump, WH press aides shouted in my face to drown out my questions. I have never encountered that before."