FAKE NEWS: Trump’s Latest Presser Reached Whole New Levels Of Batshit

 
US President Donald Trump delivered a press conference at the White House this morning, and honestly… we are just dumbfounded as to where to start. We are just lost. 
We’ll give it a red hot go. *clears throat*
So, Trump‘s press conference was an angry mess. It was called so he could announce the new head of the Labour Department, which turned out to be Alexander Acosta.
However, after the announcement was made, the next half hour was just good ol’ fashioned rant. 
Trump focused on his fave topics: criticism of the media and ‘fake news’, how many votes he won by, the Electoral College, Hillary Clinton being evil, and so on. But Trump was on a bloody warpath this time; he carved out tangents so bizarre and erratic that CNN has actually said that the press conference ‘made political history’. 
As CNN reports, it’s extremely rare (like, unheard of) for a President to demonstrate such anger and vent his grievances in such a way, let alone after just 4 weeks in power. 
Slamming the media’s coverage of the Russian leaks, Trump told reporters:
“I have never seen more dishonest media, frankly than the political media.

The leaks are real. The leaks are absolutely real. The news is fake because so much of the news is fake.”
… Say what?
He also told reporters that he was furious because he “inherited a mess”:
“I’m here again to take my message straight to the people. As you know, our administration inherited many problems across government and across the economy. 

To be honest, I inherited a mess. It’s a mess. At home and abroad, a mess.”

Oh, he also said that his administration “is running like a fine-tuned machine”. So there’s that. 
Here’s some of his media slams, in which Trump tells off the room full of reports for being “dishonest people” (he also, at one point, told them that he’d make “a very good reporter”):
Or, if you have the time to watch the full thing (then lose your mind, then recover by having a bubble bath and a nice cup of tea), you can do that here:
So… basically… this:

The unhinged press conference was essentially the Airing of Grievances. An actual, legit Airing of Grievances. By the President. In a room full of reporters. What could go wrong?
Source: CNN / Twitter. 
Photo: Mark Wilson / Getty. 

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