"I've always seemed to get, for whatever reason, a disproportionate amount of press," Trump complained. (Photo: Twitter/Screengrab)
Jan 26, 2018
Shortly following a relatively tempered speech (by his standards) at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Friday, President Donald Trump veered from the script during a brief question-and-answer session, launching into a tirade against the "vicious" and "fake" press--a rant for which he was promptly booed by some attendees.
"I've always seemed to get, for whatever reason, a disproportionate amount of press," Trump said of his business career. "It wasn't until I became a politician that I realized how nasty, how mean, how vicious, and how fake the press can be--as the cameras start going off in the back."
According to one reporter in attendance, it was a group of foreign journalists that kicked off the booing.
\u201c#Davos2018 Trump just got booed by the press after complaining about #FakeNews\u201d— paulusthewoodgnome \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83d\udc99 (@paulusthewoodgnome \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83d\udc99) 1516974949
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Shortly following a relatively tempered speech (by his standards) at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Friday, President Donald Trump veered from the script during a brief question-and-answer session, launching into a tirade against the "vicious" and "fake" press--a rant for which he was promptly booed by some attendees.
"I've always seemed to get, for whatever reason, a disproportionate amount of press," Trump said of his business career. "It wasn't until I became a politician that I realized how nasty, how mean, how vicious, and how fake the press can be--as the cameras start going off in the back."
According to one reporter in attendance, it was a group of foreign journalists that kicked off the booing.
\u201c#Davos2018 Trump just got booed by the press after complaining about #FakeNews\u201d— paulusthewoodgnome \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83d\udc99 (@paulusthewoodgnome \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83d\udc99) 1516974949
Shortly following a relatively tempered speech (by his standards) at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Friday, President Donald Trump veered from the script during a brief question-and-answer session, launching into a tirade against the "vicious" and "fake" press--a rant for which he was promptly booed by some attendees.
"I've always seemed to get, for whatever reason, a disproportionate amount of press," Trump said of his business career. "It wasn't until I became a politician that I realized how nasty, how mean, how vicious, and how fake the press can be--as the cameras start going off in the back."
According to one reporter in attendance, it was a group of foreign journalists that kicked off the booing.
\u201c#Davos2018 Trump just got booed by the press after complaining about #FakeNews\u201d— paulusthewoodgnome \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83d\udc99 (@paulusthewoodgnome \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6\ud83d\udc99) 1516974949
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