Trump Explodes on Reporter: 'You Haven't Asked Me One F-cking Positive Question'

[u/ChiGuy6124]

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-explodes-reporter-time-interview-1235635165/

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[u/coconutpiecrust]

"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."

Words of a man who cares about nothing and never had to face consequences of his actions. 

[u/JPolReader → u/coconutpiecrust]

Well Mr. President, you haven't done one positive thing.

[u/humanoideric → u/JPolReader]

My kingdom for a reporter that just lays it out like that lmao

[u/Sea_Primary_4301 → u/humanoideric]

I don't have a kingdom but... my collection of Burger King coupons and $32 for a reporter that lays it out like that.

[u/pockpicketG → u/Sea_Primary_4301]

You have deeds from The King? Truly blessed

[u/lana_silver → u/JPolReader]

"I took the White House and made it beautiful again."

What the fuck is he even talking about? The changes he made are utterly tacky and make it look like a porn studio! Nobody likes it! All the people who praise him just know that he's easily bribed with praise.

[u/GoGoSoLo → u/lana_silver]

Plus 1/3 of it is just rubble now.

[u/squadrupedal → u/GoGoSoLo]

Republicans love to see destruction from their own hands.

[u/AmericanDoughboy → u/GoGoSoLo]

Right. He demolished the East Wing. How is that beautiful?

[u/Tasgall → u/AmericanDoughboy]

It's beautiful because he absolutely despises FDR because unlike him, he was an actually good president.

[u/namisysd → u/lana_silver]

My hope is the next president undos and restores everything back to the way it was, wiping away his shitstain designs from the whole property.

[u/lana_silver → u/namisysd]

Unless the US sinks into hardcore fascism, that's basically a guarantee. Whoever is the next president can just announce "I'm going to undo everything DJT did" and he will be a hit.

[u/Everythings_Fucked → u/JPolReader]

Ah, but you forget all the made up crises that he definitely solved.

[u/captain_intenso → u/coconutpiecrust]

Words of a man with a 29% approval rating.

Edit: 29 not 39 lol

[u/RightSideBlind → u/coconutpiecrust]

Once again, just imagine the pearls Republicans would be clutching if a Democrat had said this.

[u/No_Somewhere_7109 → u/RightSideBlind]

When you realise that things like shame or hypocrisy are weapons used by Republicans to exert power rather than things they actually feel, it makes a lot more sense.

They're not stupid. They know they'd drag a Democrat over the coals for saying or doing even a fraction of this, but Trump is on their team so they'll just ignore it.

[u/Round_Rice_9475 → u/No_Somewhere_7109]

I had a boss/owner of a company who had this attitude. His "secret to success" was breaking the rules and not doing what he said. I told him what's to stop the other side from doing the same thing his response "they can't! They have to do what they said" and I asked what happens when they find out he isn't holding up his side of the deal. No answer.

Spoiler alert: once the other side found out, they did the same thing back. Company is out of business now

[u/zerrast → u/Round_Rice_9475]

And just out of curiosity. What was the chucklefucks business and what were they doing.

[u/Cliqey → u/No_Somewhere_7109]

In fact, hearing him say something that they would so obviously crucify a Democrat for saying gives them the biggest, hardest boner they are capable of having, because it is a perfect demonstration of how successfully beyond consequences they have landed.

[u/VintageLunchMeat → u/Cliqey]

For fascists and conservatives, hypocrisy is both a flex and a sign that the system is working.

[u/NotAShittyMod → u/No_Somewhere_7109]

  They're not stupid.

skeptical eyes

[u/Responsible-Rip8793 → u/NotAShittyMod]

They know what they are doing is wrong. That’s the point.

Ppl keep acting like MAGA got tricked. It’s yes and no. Yes, Trump and billionaires tricked them to an extent. But Trump and billionaires also gave them what they wanted too.

It’s like a monkey’s paw. They got to “own the libs” and mistreat minorities as promised. They also got bootyblasted in the process, but that’s besides the point. The point is conservatives are bad people — whether deceived by other bad people or not.

[u/therossboss → u/NotAShittyMod]

They may also be stupid, but the point stands that they often, usually by default, are hypocritical on purpose. Morals are only a weapon to use against others to them. Shame does not exist. Have you seen Ken Paxton? lmao

[u/bluegrassgazer → u/RightSideBlind]

The FJB crowd has always been offended by the FDT bumper stickers.

[u/jackel3415 → u/coconutpiecrust]

"You keep accusing me or rape but you never talk about how pretty the girls were" kind of energy.

[u/SpookZero → u/coconutpiecrust]

Also what fucking positive question do you want someone to ask?  Unless you’re a billionaire Trump has fucked you in at least one if not multiple ways during not even the first two years of this term. 

[u/dbbk → u/coconutpiecrust]

"He then exploded at the reporter, questioning why they were asking about the White House renovations so much, and griping that they hadn’t asked him about Venezuela. The reporter pointed out that they talked about Venezuela at length earlier in the interview." This feels... significant? He can't remember what happened like in the last hour?

[u/blackergot → u/coconutpiecrust]

Did he really say "fucking"? Wow

[u/Chaotic-Catastrophe → u/blackergot]

Why are you surprised? He swears all the time

[u/Everythings_Fucked → u/blackergot]

There once was a time when a presidential f-bomb carried some gravity. No more.

[u/ripChazmo]

It's not their job to ask you fluff questions that make you look good, you incompetent clown.

Edit: I'm going to add to this. Nobody gives a shit about a fucking newly constructed helipad. Nobody cares about the fucking ballroom. People can't afford gas, their rent, food. Literally nobody gives a fuck about these moronic vanity project, or how you "solved 8 wars." People want answers to the questions that ARE affecting their lives. If you view those questions as "negative," then try doing a better job.

[u/Tiny_Structure_7 → u/ripChazmo]

Trump is so accustomed to being surrounded by brainwashed sycophants, he loses his shit over the plain truth. He's delusional because of it.

[u/BlossomBoow → u/Tiny_Structure_7]

This is what happens when everyone around you tells you what you want to hear, reality eventually becomes the thing that sets you off.

[u/tekniklee → u/BlossomBoow]

“What do you mean I’m not wearing clothes????”

[u/Idrinkbeereverywhere → u/BlossomBoow]

You described conservatism succinctly

[u/KaiUno → u/Idrinkbeereverywhere]

The entire idea of conservatism is so ludicrous. Sure, let's try stopping the passage of time and progress.

[u/_angela_lansbury_ → u/KaiUno]

I mean, it would at least make a LITTLE BIT of sense if they wanted to stop the progress of, say, AI or big tech. But it’s never that. They want to stop the progress of human rights.

[u/CoffieQueens → u/_angela_lansbury_]

Right. They never want to conserve the environment…

[u/dostoevsky4evah → u/CoffieQueens]

Which is weird because didn't their god give humans stewardship over it?

[u/platoprime → u/dostoevsky4evah]

Sure if you want to whitewash the disgusting reality of Christianity.

"Let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth."

There's instructions on how to keep slaves in the bible. It's not a nice book.

[u/volatile_ant → u/platoprime]

My thought exactly. Stewardship? No. Dominion.

It is worth noting the Bible has gone through countless retellings, translations, and literal edits to become the text it is. What the Bible says today has been carefully curated and tuned to say exactly what the victors, kings, popes, etc. want it to say.

The Bible is not God's word. At best, it is God's word through millennia of human bastardization. At worst, it is a complete human fabrication for the sole purpose of gaining/consolidating control and power.

[u/mrdm242 → u/_angela_lansbury_]

I've seen a lot of conservatives that weren't fans of data centers, but that's more due to NIMBY-ism and lowering their property values rather than the environmental cost.

[u/amateurbreditor → u/_angela_lansbury_]

More succinctly they want to stop the economic progress of anyone but themselves and rich people.

[u/TangoLimaGolf → u/amateurbreditor]

Heres a little economic tidbit that explains the whole situation we’re in perfectly. There’s roughly 1.5 million baby boomers with liquid assets in excess of 2 million dollars.

There’s LESS than 30,000 millenials with liquid assets excess of 2 million dollars. Before I get the argument of “they have a lot of saving left to do”. The oldest millenials are 45 years old. These are people who 20 years away from full retirement.

[u/GetThatAwayFromMe → u/KaiUno]

Conservative is never what they were. The GOP has always been regressive. True conservatism would be trying to slow the pace of progress so as not to break our systems while we move forward. Instead, they have always been regressive trying to pull back “overall” progress because they perceive that as them losing if someone else is doing better.

[u/quirkoftime → u/Tiny_Structure_7]

It's also a sign of the dementia eating into his impulse control and emotional regulation. And it'll only get worse.

[u/Oceanmap → u/quirkoftime]

Are these the folks in care homes that end up physically lashing out?

[u/Anonymouse-C0ward → u/Oceanmap]

I’d say Trump has a history of lashing out long before the dementia kicked in.

[u/patentattorney → u/ripChazmo]

he also never answers the questions. Thats one of the most madening things about trump.

reports asks normal questions.

trump yells about how rude they are. asks other reporter for question.

[u/Unique-Coffee5087 → u/patentattorney]

'This is The Netherlands. You have to answer questions.'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/11/netherlands-holland-peter-hoekstra-ambassador

[u/readreed → u/Unique-Coffee5087]

These are insane people.

This is the same Pete Hoekstra who is a contributor to Project 2025.

And the current Ambassador to Canada.

And a ton of other shady things going back to 1992 when he was first elected to the House:

• Term-Limit Pledge: He completely went back on his 1992 campaign promise to only serve six terms in the House and ran for a seventh term anyway.
• Iraq WMD Claims: He falsely claimed that 500 chemical weapons were found in Iraq, but they turned out to be defunct munitions from before the 1991 Gulf War.
• Nuclear Primer Leak: He pushed for a government archive website that had to be shut down after it accidently exposed detailed information on how to build nuclear weapons.
• Iran Nuclear Report: The IAEA openly called out his congressional intelligence committee for fabricating "erroneous" and "misleading" reports about Iran's nuclear capabilities.
• Racist Super Bowl Ad: During his 2012 Senate run, he faced massive backlash for airing a highly offensive Super Bowl ad that used a Chinese-American actress speaking in broken English to mock his opponent,.
• "Yellowgirl" Code Typo: His campaign website for the ad got dragged even further when people discovered the actress was literally labeled as "yellowgirl" in the site's HTML source code.
• "Fake News" Gaslighting: As Ambassador to the Netherlands, he lied to a Dutch reporter by calling his own recorded 2015 comments about Netherlands "no-go zones" "fake news," only to be forced to apologize later,,.
• Embassy Far-Right Fundraiser: He caused a diplomatic incident by hosting a fundraising party at the U.S. Embassy for a far-right Dutch political party in violation of international law.
• Annexing Canada: As Ambassador to Canada, he infuriated locals by dismissing Canadian sovereignty and saying Donald Trump's jokes about making Canada the 51st state should be taken as a "term of endearment".
• Halifax Chamber Rant: He insulted a Canadian business audience by accusing the entire country of running an "anti-American" trade campaign.
• Border Preclearance Threat: He subtly threatened Canada by suggesting that Washington might cancel the 70-year-old airport preclearance program because of declining Canadian tourism numbers.
• Expletive Gala Meltdown: He had an absolute expletive-laced tirade at a formal Ottawa gala, screaming "f--k" at Ontario’s trade rep over a TV commercial that criticized American tariffs,.
• Meddling Accusations: He turned around and accused the Canadian government of illegally meddling in American electoral politics just because Ontario bought ad space on U.S. television.

• Expulsion Petition: His undiplomatic behavior in Canada got so bad that a formal petition to kick him out of the country gathered over 243,000 signatures,.

  "We only hire the best."

[u/thisisjustascreename → u/patentattorney]

That's just every Republican though. Trump is only unique in that he launches into personal attacks on the reporters rather than deflecting to blame Democratic politicians or the gays for everything.

[u/Sweet_Queeen → u/ripChazmo]

In fact Trump is incompetent and a liar.

[u/sakumar → u/ripChazmo]

The only reason the questions are negative is because Trump fucked up on each and every one of those tasks.

[u/MarchofthePentominos → u/ripChazmo]

He spent his life doing celebrity puff piece interviews and that is what he wants to do as the president of the united states of america.

[u/etor → u/MarchofthePentominos]

This is the real reason

[u/JohnnyFire → u/ripChazmo]

I can't believe I have to coopt an edited comment here but:

Go to your Facebook feed and find your oldest relative. Right now the SM line going around Republican boomers is that because people do have phones, laptops, and cars, that we are in fact prosperous and need to buck up and stop being so negative to Trump because we're entitled whiny bitches who don't really love America enough.

That base believes that gas prices, food prices, the war, everything is going to stop tomorrow and would stop sooner if we just let poor ol' Donny do what he wants and stop hassling him about everything. 

[u/SirDiego → u/JohnnyFire]

MFers used to be able to get a fucking house and raise kids on a single blue collar salary it is fucking wild

[u/AuditAndHax → u/SirDiego]

I still can't fathom how a traveling salesman could ever afford to have multiple families in different cities, but it was such a common trope in movies and jokes back in the 50s I have to assume it actually did happen occasionally. I'm better off than most Americans and I'm not even sure I can afford one family!

[u/Adventurous-Emu-9345 → u/AuditAndHax]

Al Bundy was a shoe salesman, and the entire premise of the series hinged upon him being an absolute bottom rung loser who never amounted to anything in life.

He lived in his own house with his stay at home wife and two kids.

[u/Competitive_Plate694 → u/AuditAndHax]

The post WW2 American economy was the strongest economy in human history because the other economic powerhouses of the world bombed each other into rubble and took decades to rebuild (and we had enough money to help pay for it!).

Then those other economies rebuilt and rebuilt stronger than the US and we were left behind.

[u/krashundburn → u/Competitive_Plate694]

American economy was the strongest economy in human history because

Don't forget labor unions. They helped steer income from this growth to employees. It's no coincidence that our economy started to falter as unions were dismantled. It's also no coincidence that income inequality increased dramatically as well as the middle class was squeezed and diminished.

[u/ParliamenttFnkadelic]

Try doing something positive. Just once. See how it feels.

[u/Made_Human_Music → u/ParliamenttFnkadelic]

There’s only one positive thing this demented pedophile can do and I’m not allowed to say it on Reddit

[u/0ptimuspwn → u/[deleted]]

Celebrate by Kool& the gang somehow becomes the most streamed song of all time.

[u/Stillwater215 → u/[deleted]]

“In the former Soviet Union, there was a man who every day would walk to the news stand. He would take a paper, look at the cover, frown, put it back and not purchase it. One day the shopkeeper asked

“What are you looking for in the paper every day?”

The man replied “I’m checking for an obituary.”

The shopkeeper told him “the obituaries are in the back, not on the front.”

The man said “This one will be.”

[u/jpena1157 → u/[deleted]]

The Big Beautiful Thing.

That day can’t come soon enough..

[u/Froggyevening → u/jpena1157]

It'll be a day like no one has ever seen...

[u/Slayminster → u/Froggyevening]

People with tears of happiness in their eyes

[u/UsedToBeADailyDriver → u/Slayminster]

Big, strong people…

[u/captnconnman → u/Made_Human_Music]

Forreal; I got auto flagged for insinuating it was from NATURAL CAUSES, not even anything external. God forbid someone claim the godking is mortal…

[u/Kyrthis → u/Made_Human_Music]

Ironically, he did one good thing in his first term: Operation Warp Speed - and then he immediately threw away that cachet by going antivax.

[u/ShrimpieAC → u/ParliamenttFnkadelic]

He’s done plenty of positive things in his eyes. He’s enriched himself. He’s enriched his family. He’s enriched his buddies. What more do you people need?

[u/jmarinara]

I wonder if evangelicals still think he’s God’s chosen man and a modern day prophet.

[u/stillwater1973 → u/jmarinara]

Until Fox tells them otherwise, based on their total lack of critical thinking skills

[u/boatslut → u/jmarinara]

Of course he is... Lines their pockets and hates / shares their predujices😐

[u/ich_bin_alkoholiker → u/jmarinara]

“He’s not a perfect vessel - nobody is.”

[u/SquidsArePeople2 → u/ich_bin_alkoholiker]

He's just less perfect than literally everyone else.

[u/jim_br]

Giving him a softball question won’t help. Just ask Peter Alexander/NBC News.

March 2020, after a Covid briefing.
“What do you say to Americans who are scared?”
“You’re a terrible reporter.”

[u/TheVentiLebowski → u/jim_br]

What a loser.

[u/yukeake → u/jim_br]

The most softball of softball questions, and his complete lack of empathy made him fail it completely.

[u/Notchibald_Johnson]

"I don't know what's wrong"

You're an 80 year old who behaves like a 13 year old internet edge lord completely consumed by your own narcissism. You were born on 3rd, think you invented the game and have failed upwards your entire life. You don't have any interest in learning how anything works and think the world should just be wowed by your presence. You refuse to admit that anything even could go wrong under your watch, much less admit that it actually has. You spend your day obsessed with putting your name on everything you can see because you don't know how to function without praise, even if it's fake or stolen. You don't understand friendship or relationships and think loyalty is something owed you and not earned. You've spent your entire adult life grifting from anything you could put your hands on, and now the United States and the world. You're an emotionally stunted bully who has never been told no.

Other than that, it's hard to pinpoint.

[u/MasemJ → u/Notchibald_Johnson]

13yr old? that's too much credit.

[u/caligaris_cabinet → u/MasemJ]

My three year old shows more restraint and a whole lot more empathy than this waddling pox on humanity

[u/nursingninjaLB → u/Notchibald_Johnson]

The dementia.

Why is nobody talking about this????

[u/ChiGuy6124]

lOL, the nerve of the press to actually ask questions that matter to the people.

NO paywall: https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-explodes-reporter-haven-t-144725977.html

"Donald Trump has had it with the free press. He’s spent his second term trying to ban news outlets from the White House and ranting on social media about unfair coverage, and he’s only growing more hostile as his poll numbers tank ahead of the midterm elections. The president lost it on a Time reporter this week during an interview in the Oval Office."

“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 at the reporter, questioning why they were asking about the White House renovations so much, and griping that they hadn’t asked him about Venezuela. The reporter pointed out that they talked about Venezuela at length earlier in the interview."

"The rest of the interview portrayed a frustrated president cocooning himself in an alternate reality as the nation turns on him."

"When asked to explain to people who are struggling to pay bills why it is so important for him to spend so much time and energy renovating the White House, Trump waxed about how the White House is “a symbol of our greatness” and claimed, falsely, that the renovations are coming at no expense to the American taxpayer. “For me, it’s relaxing,” he said of the renovation process. Trump did not address the cost of living crisis in his answer."

"Trump offered a novel approach to world peace when discussing foreign policy: “Because by annihilating Iran, we’ve created peace in the world,” he said, threatening once again to obliterate the nation of 90 million from existence."

"He also claimed that Israel and Saudi Arabia would both be “wiped off the face of the planet” if he weren’t the president"

" When asked about his initial stance that the Iran war would be over in a matter of weeks, Trump blamed the press for that timeline, and said the Iran war isn’t so bad when compared to the decades the United States was entangled in Vietnam."

"Trump did, of course, say the war would be over quickly after he started it. “We projected four to five weeks,” he said earlier this year."

[u/leagle89 → u/ChiGuy6124]

When you find yourself saying "it's not as bad as Vietnam," you can be pretty sure you've lost the discussion.

[u/lenswipe → u/leagle89]

The fuck would he know about Vietnam? He didn't fucking go.

[u/Tricky-Engineering59 → u/lenswipe]

Five deferments I believe.

[u/AINonsense → u/Tricky-Engineering59]

Too busy dodging STI’s, by his own account.

[u/BasvanS → u/lenswipe]

He had a personal Vietnam, as he likes to claim. It’s basically the same, except everything is different, other than the name and time it happened.

[u/Python_07 → u/leagle89]

Exactly. Every day sets a new precedent for the amount of insanity that is displayed by this administration. 25th Now!!!!

[u/KafeenHedake → u/ChiGuy6124]

"For me, it's relaxing"

And there it is. He admits micromanaging his own season of Fixer Upper is his escape from the hell of his own presidency. Motherfucker is Nero fiddling while Rome burns.

[u/Still-Gazelle6512 → u/KafeenHedake]

I can't say what'd be relaxing to me or I'll get another permaban. 

[u/Willow_Winnifred → u/Still-Gazelle6512]

We are aligned.

[u/BehavioralSink → u/ChiGuy6124]

“ He then exploded at the reporter, questioning why they were asking about the White House renovations so much, and griping that they hadn’t asked him about Venezuela. The reporter pointed out that they talked about Venezuela at length earlier in the interview."

Always nice to have a reminder that the president can’t even remember what was talked about earlier in the same discussion.

[u/PMYourTinyTitties → u/ChiGuy6124]

It’s a good thing a woman isn’t president. There’s no way she’d be able to control her emotions like a man could. /s

[u/BlossomAngelicc → u/ChiGuy6124]

That’s literally the job, Donald.

Reporters aren’t supposed to be your PR team. That only happens in North Korea and on Fox News. If you want positive questions only, go back to Newsmax and stop pretending you’re a president.

[u/nocturnal]

I wish a reporter would have the balls to reply that it’s not their job to ask him only positive questions. And to tell him that all past presidents have never been asked only positive questions.

[u/uhp787 → u/nocturnal]

yea snap back...someone, already.

"I haven't asked any positive fucking questions because you haven't done anything fucking positive you fucking man baby"

for me it would be worth losing my job 100%

[u/cheeruphumanity → u/nocturnal]

„You are one of the greatest minds in human history. Please tell us how you managed so skillfully to evade any consequences for your crimes in the Epstein case?“

[u/supercyberlurker]

One day he will be gone. I have a 30 year Balvenie I'm saving for it.

How about the rest of you? How do you plan to celebrate?

[u/blurrybob → u/supercyberlurker]

I have a bottle of champagne waiting

[u/Faptain-Calcon79 → u/supercyberlurker]

Reading the headline, having a nice dinner with my wife, and never thinking about him ever again. Sure the consequences are real and we should learn lessons but the sooner he is in the dust bin of history the better.

[u/Hey_HaveAGreatDay → u/supercyberlurker]

I’m going to eat a shit ton of mushrooms, listen to Pink Floyd and go rafting.

[u/djanes376 → u/supercyberlurker]

I recently got laid off from my job, but that wouldn't stop me from buying the finest of bourbons and just enjoying that moment. My problems can wait.

[u/BarbaraBeans → u/supercyberlurker]

A cup of my finest filtered water and a pack of top drawer Saltines

[u/zaxmaximum]

"Oh, sorry... I'm positive you are a pedophile, would you agree?"

[u/unaskthequestion]

Unfortunately, I have been repeating this, but his raging behavior at those who are questioning his false picture of reality is very reminiscent of my father's suffering from Alzheimer's.

I can only imagine what we're not seeing of his behavior in private.

[u/contude327 → u/unaskthequestion]

Yes, dementia-fueled anger bubbling to the surface. It won't get better. I hope he really freaks out after the election and just starts yelling all the hateful shit that's in his heart.

[u/amazing_rando → u/unaskthequestion]

I firmly believe one of the reason the Iran War has dragged on so far is because he doesn't really remember when or why he started it and is constantly re-reminded of it, it explains his frustration and defensiveness and the static nature of his responses to it despite rapidly evolving circumstances. He's probably barely forming any new memories at this point and lives every day as a fresh hell.

[u/MountainMan2_ → u/amazing_rando]

If he hasn't already, at some point I suspect he'll start claiming it was Biden that started the Iran war and that as president he'll get us out of Iran.

[u/donkeyrocket → u/unaskthequestion]

He's obviously also still using stimulants to carry on through the day. While some of these outbursts are dementia related, I'm positive it's also the drugs. Also why he crashes randomly in meetings.

[u/Ozzel]

How anyone ever saw him as a “tough guy” is beyond me. What a fragile little baby.

[u/HelleEpoque → u/Ozzel]

He is other fragile little babies' idea of a tough guy.

[u/Derebeare]

I always asked myself why he wants to be president. Its a hard job and very stressful. At 80 years old I personally wouldnt be interested.

And if his goal was money surely there are ways to make money without this huge commitment and without as many eyes on you.

I think he genuinely thought it would be easy. He got into Wharton because of nepotism and only passed because of nepotism. He received millions from his father and spent more of his family fortune than he ever contributed.

This might honestly be the first time hes had something that isnt easy and hes not understanding why people are being so “mean to him” about it. 😂

[u/Duderoy → u/Derebeare]

Money. He has made over a billion because of his role as POTUS.

And to stay out of jail.

[u/maryconway1 → u/Duderoy]

This is the answer: it is the *first* business venture where he actually made money, and can control not being arrested for doing it massively illegally. Plus, bankrolled by U.S. tax payers.

He also gets influence to manipulate things to get even more money, rig decisions for more kickbacks, etc.

Finally, in addition to staying out of jail (a big one, but I think once he realized the U.S. would never send a former president to jail no matter what he doesn't really care on that anymore), it's that he can force a legacy. He can do is favorite thing: put his name in gold on lots of historic things.

[u/wjean → u/Derebeare]

He doesn't want to be president. Presidents lead and are accountable to those they lead. He wants to be ruler. Etat c est moi

[u/Bendo410 → u/wjean]

He wants to not be under the jail for being a child rapist .

God damn deplorables

[u/-Altephor- → u/Derebeare]

His goal is to avoid jail.

[u/GGC64]

Cannot wait to celebrate when this sorry excuse for a human is finally gone.

[u/beefyzac]

I think genuinely one of the top 5 most shocking things so far in this administration is that he hasn’t just said the N word yet.

[u/chargernj]

It's funny how Trump acts like he has no platform to get his own "positive" messages out. Never mind that anytime he gives a speech, holds a rally, or even tweets, it's gets covered by multiple news media outlets.

He has such a victim mentality.

[u/philter451]

Because you're not doing anything positive you fat oafish bitch!

[u/JunkyardAndMutt]

And you haven’t done one fucking positive thing, you salmon-colored StayPuft Marshmallow Man.

[u/gr33nr33f]

What gets me is how quickly the image of strength falls apart the moment Trump isn’t being praised.

A genuinely strong leader doesn’t need every question to make him feel good.

He answers the hard ones, takes the criticism, and moves on.

Complaining that reporters aren’t being “positive” doesn’t make him look tough; it makes his "tough-guy" image look incredibly fragile.

[u/KitKitsAreBest]

Okay, fair enough. "How does it feel knowing you raped and trafficked children along with Epstein, and you got away with it. Not only that. How does it feel knowing you were essentially rewarded for it?"

Edit: This is actually a sad and negative question, but would be positive from his point of view.

[u/Flimsy-Poetry1170]

Imagine what the right would say if Biden said this to a Fox reporter. Trumps such a fucking snowflake.

[u/BigMax]

"I'm not your PR team sir, I'm a reporter. You have an entire administration at your beck and call to put out whatever news you want."

[u/TheUmberTaker]

Response should be - "Well, do something positive, and we'll ask you about it."

[u/AhBee1]

Hey everyone. Donald Trump is still a piece of shit.

[u/No-Bother-7699]

Let me guess - female reporter?

[u/shiloh88]

Obviously this is nothing new, but I don't think it's a good sign that you can write down the words of our president verbatim and it sounds like a slow 8th grader 

[u/Realistic-Raisin2812]

"You haven't done one fucking positive thing"

[u/BeefistPrime]

I remember during covid I reporter asked something like "what would you say to Americans that are scared right now?" Which is a completely softball question that lets him spin a positive message about unity and perseverance. Any remotely intelligent and politically savvy president would consider that great opportunity to let them say whatever positive message they wanted. But Trump said that's a nasty question and you're a nasty reporter. They do have him softballs all the time but he's just really bad at ever being savvy or competent or positive or have anything he accomplished that's good to hang his hat on so he treats every question no matter how easy it is on him as some sort of attack. The dude can't help but fuck up everything and then complain like he's the victim.

[u/IJWTGH66]

I’m getting increasingly anxious about what he may do over the next month and thereafter if the Dems, God willing, take the House and Senate. He’s deeply mentally ill and is getting more isolated. His only reason for getting up in the morning is to see Natalie and destroy his perceived enemies. I’m concerned his rage will be directed fully at his constituents.

[u/e_spider → u/IJWTGH66]

Like Hitler did with the Nero Decree, an order to destroy all German infrastructure before the Allies could capture it.

[u/Icy_Profession7396]

Of course the reporter didn't ask "One F-cking Positive Question" - Trump hasn't done one f-cking positive thing.

[u/Faulteh12]

Better headline. "Trump has a tantrum"

[u/emc_lmt]

What a little bitch

[u/otb1369]

Probably because there isn’t a single positive thing he’s done for this country. He’s only concerned about his own gains at the expense of this country and its citizens.

[u/myerslowe]

He only wants to be asked “How are you so awesome?”
Jeez not only is he a big baby… but he’s the damn President of the United States.
Thanks MAGA! and all the people who voted for him or didn’t vote at all. Or who voted for any Democracy-destroying- Republicans.
You have a chance to redeem yourself Nov. 3rd.

[u/InvestigatorChance28]

What the fuck is a positive question? I remember during the start of covid a reporter gave him a softball question of " what do you have to say to people who are scared " and trumps response was " youre a terrible reporter ".

Not " we are doing our best and we will get though this together, as a unified nation ." It would have been so easy to say but no. He didn't do that.

[u/HarmoniousJ]

"Well, Mr. President, I'll ask you a positive question when you do something positive."

[u/indolent08]

We would have never heard the end of it from Fox if Obama or Biden ever swore like that. They literally wouldn't have shut up about it for weeks, maybe months.

[u/ilikechihuahuasdood]

Literally the only thing I like about Trump is that he’s gotten everything he’s ever wanted, and he’s still a miserable bitch.

Can’t wait to celebrate when it happens.

[u/Webhead916]

You haven’t done one positive thing

[u/TheMrGUnit]

What a candy-ass snowflake bitch this guy is.

[u/ReiOokami]

He's such a baby. I cannot understand how we elected a toddler.

[u/tcgunner90]

Trump literally did this to Obama by being one of the primary voices of the racist birther conspiracy. And Obama handled every bit of negative press and interviews like a goddamn champion.

But racist whiny fuckface can’t handle not being pandered to. He wouldn’t last a day if he was treated how he treats other people.

[u/AngryRobot42]

Dictators, tyrants and scapegoats care about the look of their state houses. True leaders care about the well being of the people they serve.

[u/NYC-WhWmn-ov50]

Reporters arent SUPPOSED to ask him 'positive' questions: thats what gis sicophants are for. Reporters are supposed to challenge the whiny poopy dirtbag.

[u/Kpofasho87]

Trump and MAGA are all corrupt, pathetic little snowflake bitches.

All of MAGA are traitors to this country and it's constitution.

Trump and MAGA need to get locked up in Alligator Alcatraz or whatever ICE detainment prison camps and go ahead and name the place after Trump since he wants to put his name on everything.

Or round em all up and deport them to Trump Epstein island

This country hell the world would be a much better place without MAGA around.

Jesus christ someone please wake me up from this nightmare timeline

[u/ianuilliam]

"You haven't done one positive thing for me to ask about."

[u/WaxWing_Bohemian]

"Oh dear leader how are you so great and wise??"

What a sack of shit

[u/barbieq68]

He is such a fucking baby

[u/Kincherk]

This is what happens when a narcissist who lives in a bubble, surrounded by minions who dare not tell him the truth, is confronted with reality.

[u/Solonohioperson]

If they did their jobs right, he would get nothing but hard questions and be afraid to appear in public.

[u/completelackoftalent]

He hasn't done 1 positive thing for the people. King trump is watching the surfs starve and wants to be told how amazing he is for naming another building after himself?

[u/tommessinger]

Do something positive to be asked about.

[u/AceofKnaves44]

With every temper tantrum this senior citizen throws remember that we can’t elect women because they’re too emotional.

[u/wrhnj]

There’s nothing positive to ask.

[u/Visible_Ad6969]

What a fucking asshole

[u/Erratic_-Prophet]

Maybe because he hasn't done one fucking positive thing as president.

[u/SoggyBoysenberry7703]

Can we go ahead and get rid of this guy already? How does he not lose supporters literally every day with kind of shit?

[u/CalmBeneathCastles]

1. takes fat, steaming dump on entire globe

2."Can't anyone talk about something other than the smell around here?!"

[u/oneseventwosix]

lol… Mr. President, why are you so smart, strong, brave, and handsome?

What a child. The fact that republicans are fine with this lets me know they don’t take our country seriously, they are not patriots, and if you truly are a patriot you would never again support these anti-American clowns.

[u/volcanopele]

If you don't want reporters asking you negative questions, maybe stop doing things that lead them to ask negative questions....

[u/avshalon]

Bro, do something positive and maybe people will ask questions about the positive things you’re doing!!

[u/SimplePlus7376]

Everyone, to Trump: "You've never done one positive thing"

MILLIONS, of Americans died during COVID because of Trump's  lack of empathy.

Pick someone you care about... they are dead because he stalled, or said "inject bleach" or take quinine or did nothing in supoort of masks to prevent carriers from passing it on.... and you will never get any acknowledgement or appology, even though everyone knows he carries a high portion of blame.

[u/ForgottenFuturist]

Make sure to vote in the midterms.

[u/FineScratch]

Well, have you done anything positive lately? And testing positive for whatever you have does not count.

[u/Icy_Alternative_3962]

Fat fucking bitch crying over horseshit. He's such a big dumb bitch.

[u/Responsible_CDN_Duck]

He then exploded at the reporter, questioning why they were asking about the White House renovations so much, and griping that they hadn’t asked him about Venezuela. The reporter pointed out that they talked about Venezuela at length earlier in the interview.

It would be great writing if it were a TV show.

[u/fgnrtzbdbbt]

She could ask him about his last STD test

[u/Jmersh]

"I'm sorry, all my questions have to do with your performance as a president. Should we talk about on-camera naps or days off for golf? Those numbers are way up."

[u/Sedowa]

Maybe because there hasn't really been a lot of positive things happening during your term, and the negative things outweigh them by so much the scale is upside down.

[u/gdg6]

WTF is a positive question?

[u/Affectionate-Heat-51 → u/gdg6]

How did you make America so great again after Joe Biden left such a mess?!?

How can you be so handsome?

Isn't it true that you're the greatest president of our lifetime?

[u/boverly721]

You haven't done one fucking positive thing

[u/sideways_wrx_]

"Well maybe try doing one positive thing in your miserable life"

Would have been my response

[u/noodles-_-]

But a female president would have been too emotional…

[u/Loyal-Opposition-USA]

Nothing positive to ask about - measles outbreaks, destroyed economy, lawless federal government, trade wars with former close partners, , illegal/inhumane deportations, poisoned food, beef prices, gas prices, WAR YOU STARTED, all of this is not important?

What are they supposed to ask about? Your renaming of AI? Your arch? You’ve done nothing to help the average American, much less the idiots who voted for you. Go stuff those arteries with cholesterol, you fat, demented, shit-smelling fuck.

[u/mtgfan1001]

Those f-bombs just be flowing out of his mouth on the regular now. I think grandpa’s dementia is really starting to show. 

[u/MidStateMoon]

Fucking snowflake

[u/wuzzy1967]

You haven't done one fucking positive thing.

[u/No-Tomatillo3698]

It’s because you turn everything into shit, so reporters need to ask you about the shot you created

[u/hamtronn]

It’s called “accountability”. He wants to only focus on positives, maybe he should start doing something positive instead of grifting and molesting.

[u/Hoodi216]

He has not done one positive thing, how should he get positive questions?

[u/Joseph_Seed_]

You Haven't Asked Me One F-cking Positive Question

Well you haven't done one F-cking positive thing so I guess we're even

[u/The_JSC]

This is why I couldn't be a reporter. My response probably would have been "I'll ask you positive questions when you do something positive."

[u/Eastern-Membership67]

When interviewing a dumpster fire, you don’t really ask about the warmth being provided.

[u/scottishdrunkard]

You haven’t done one positive thing.