Trump claims Queen Elizabeth kept him waiting
The president’s visit to Britain was broadcast live,
including footage of the queen waiting for him for 12 minutes.
By GABRIELA
GALINDO 8/3/18, 10:48 AM CET Updated
8/3/18, 12:55 PM CET
U.S. President Donald Trump told supporters that Queen
Elizabeth II kept him waiting during his first official visit to the United
Kingdom, blaming the media for reporting he’d been the one who was late for
their meeting.
Speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania on Thursday, Trump
claimed he had actually arrived 15 minutes early for his meeting with the
“incredible” queen, slamming the “fake, fake, disgusting news” media reports
that noted he had been the one who was late.
The president’s visit to Britain was broadcast live on
television, including footage of the 92-year-old queen waiting for Trump for 12
minutes and looking at her watch.
“I landed and I’m on the ground and I’m waiting with the
king’s and the queen’s guards,” Trump told his supporters. “I’m waiting. I was
about 15 minutes early and I’m waiting with my wife and that’s fine. Hey, it’s
the queen, right? We can wait. But I’m a little early.”
Trump then denied reports that he had overstayed his
welcome. He told the crowd he hadn’t known the meeting was supposed to last 15
minutes, and “it lasted like an hour” because “we got along.”
Trump then claimed he had “a better relationship” with
European leaders “than any other [American] president has had.”
'Disgusting news': Donald Trump whips up crowd anger as he
vilifies media
President was campaigning for Senate candidate but continued
his increasingly alarming verbal vendetta
Adam Gabbatt in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
@adamgabbatt
Fri 3 Aug 2018 07.31 BST First published on Fri 3 Aug 2018
03.13 BST
Donald Trump ramped up his attack on the media on Thursday
night, criticizing the press as “fake, fake, disgusting news” and describing
journalists in attendance as “horrible, horrendous people”, despite UN experts
warning earlier in the day that his actions were putting journalists at risk.
Nominally appearing in Wilkes-Barre, in Pennsylvania, to
support a Republican candidate for the US Senate, Trump instead spent more than
15 minutes listing a series of grievances with the press, inducing angry
chanting from the crowd towards the assembled media.
The president angrily attacked the media’s coverage of a
range of topics including his 2016 election victory, his meeting with Kim
Jong-un of North Korea, his meeting with Vladimir Putin, his meeting with Nato,
and finally his meeting with the Queen in July.
Trump’s most intense criticisms came during an anecdote
about the latter. Trump said he and the Queen “got along fantastically well”
and enjoyed “good chemistry”, but told the thousands-strong crowd that the “fake
news” had instead reported that he turned up late.
“They can make
anything bad. Because they are the fake, fake, disgusting news,” Trump said.
The insult prompted wild applause, as did his series of
other denunciations of the press, which Trump continued despite widely shared
videos showing the crowd at a Trump rally in Florida on Tuesday using
aggressive language and gestures towards the CNN correspondent Jim Acosta.
During the middle of his speech on Thursday Trump pointed to
the press area in the middle of the arena as he recalled the skepticism around
his chances of victory in November 2016.
“Even these people back there, these horrible, horrendous
people,” Trump said, would agree “there has never been anything like what
happened in November”, Trump said.
Earlier in the day UN experts had warned that Trump’s
rhetoric could “increase the risk of journalists being targeted with violence”,
while his daughter, Ivanka Trump, said that, unlike her father, she does “not
consider the media the enemy of the people”.
The level of hostility on Tuesday had been such that Acosta
later tweeted that he was “very worried that the hostility whipped up by Trump
and some in conservative media will result in somebody getting hurt”. On
Thursday Acosta had clashed with White House press secretary Sarah
Huckabee-Sanders, repeatedly asking if she disagreed with Trump’s view of the
press as the “enemy of the people”. Huckabee-Sanders declined to answer.
Trump was appearing at the Mohegan Sun Arena in
Wilkes-Barre, in a bid to boost Lou Barletta, a congressman running for the
Senate. Barletta was one of the first members of Congress to endorse Trump for
president and has remained a firm supporter.
Barletta is currently trailing his opponent, the incumbent
Democrat Bob Casey, by an average of 16 points in the polls, and had just $1.6m
cash on hand at the end of June compared with Casey’s $9.9m.
Bartletta’s campaign said Trump’s appearance had been an
immediate success, prompting a swathe of donations, but the lasting memory of
Trump’s appearance is likely to be his sustained attacks on the free press.
During his lengthy diatribe Trump referenced his meeting
with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un – which was widely criticized as having achieved
little – in furthering his characterization of the media and “fake news”. Trump
claimed he had returned to DC from the Singapore summit and told his wife,
Melania, that he was excited to see the media coverage.
“I just stopped missiles from being launched every two
seconds,” Trump quoted himself as saying to his wife.
“‘And baby, I got the
hostages back’,” Trump said. “‘And you know what, honey, they’re not testing
any more nuclear.’”
“Oh the media is gonna finally treat me so good,” Trump
recalled himself saying. “I’m looking forward to waking up tomorrow and reading
those dying papers.”
Instead, Trump said, he faced “only negativity” from the
“fake news”.
Turning to his widely criticized meeting with Vladimir Putin
in Helsinki, Trump again said the coverage had been unfair. “They wanted me to
go up and have a boxing match,” he said of the media’s reporting of his cowed
performance alongside Putin, as the crowd roared.
The crowd was particularly hostile to CNN – of whom Trump
has been most critical – but as the president continued his lengthy aside the
angry boos, shouts and downturned thumbs were directed to almost all of the
journalists packed inside the small media zone.
“Whatever happened to fair press?” the president lamented
towards the end of his speech. “Whatever happened to honest reporting?”One
thing both the crowd and the media could likely agree on is that, given his
performance on Thursday, Trump’s war with the media is far from over.
Ataques de Trump aos media instigam violência real, diz
relator da ONU
(…) “Os ataques dele são estratégicos, feitos para
fragilizar a confiança na imprensa e para questionar factos comprovados”,
afirmaram os dois especialistas a propósito da linguagem inflamatória do
Presidente norte-americano. "Esses ataques vão contra as obrigações que o
país tem de respeitar a liberdade de imprensa e violam o direito internacional.
Estamos especialmente preocupados que estes ataques aumentem o risco de os
jornalistas serem alvo de violência", vincaram.
David Kaye, da ONU, critica os excessos de linguagem do
Presidente dos EUA, que acusa a imprensa de ser "inimiga do povo".
Casa Branca opta pelo silêncio mas Ivanka Trump demarca-se do pai.
Liliana Borges
LILIANA BORGES 3 de Agosto de 2018, 12:28
ONU considera que o discurso de Trump é perigoso para os
jornalistas e democracia
https://www.publico.pt/2018/08/03/mundo/noticia/onu-pede-a-trump-para-nao-atacar-jornalistas-1839988
Os ataques verbais do presidente dos EUA contra a imprensa
correm o risco de desencadear uma violência real contra jornalistas. O aviso é
do relator especial da Organização das Nações Unidas para o direito à liberdade
de opinião e de expressão, David Kaye. Numa declaração conjunta feita esta
quinta-feira com Edison Lanza — que ocupa o mesmo cargo na Comissão
Interamericana de Direitos Humanos — Kaye afirmou que as declarações de Donald
Trump violam normas básicas da liberdade de imprensa.
Entre outras acusações, Trump diz que os jornalistas são
“inimigos do povo norte-americano”, “muito desonestos” e que “distorcem a
democracia”.
“Os ataques dele são estratégicos, feitos para fragilizar a
confiança na imprensa e para questionar factos comprovados”, afirmaram os dois
especialistas a propósito da linguagem inflamatória do Presidente
norte-americano. "Esses ataques vão contra as obrigações que o país tem de
respeitar a liberdade de imprensa e violam o direito internacional. Estamos
especialmente preocupados que estes ataques aumentem o risco de os jornalistas
serem alvo de violência", vincaram.
“Sempre que um Presidente chama à imprensa os ‘inimigos do
povo’, ou deixa de permitir perguntas dos jornalistas, isso sugere motivações
nefastas”, sustentam David Kaye e Edison Lanza. Até agora, em nenhum caso Trump
forneceu provas de qualquer motivação indesejável que pudesse estar na base do
que é publicado pelos media.
“Dois anos é demasiado tempo e pedimos ao Presidente Trump,
à Administração e aos apoiantes que ponham fim a estes ataques”, lê-se no
comunicado de David Kaye e Edison Lanza.
A porta-voz da Casa Branca para a imprensa, Sarah Sanders,
optou pelo silêncio e por algumas declarações previamente preparadas, dizendo
aos jornalistas presentes na conferência de imprensa que o Presidente tem
“razões para estar forçado” com a cobertura negativa que ele diz que a imprensa
faz da Administração Trump. Sem responder ao que lhe era perguntado, Sanders
limitou-se a ler algumas declarações previamente preparadas, dizendo ainda que
ela própria foi também alvo de ataque “num número de ocasiões”. "O
Presidente foi muito claro nas declarações", resumiu.
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