Trump’s Standoff With White House Reporters, and the Rise and Fall of ‘Pervert Glasses’
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Normally, Jackie, we'd be watching a pretty elegant affair on the South Lawn, and we don't get access to that now.
In Washington last night, the fallout from President Trump's standoff with the White House press corps was on full display.
So we ordinarily would have a lot of images to show of this, and um it's gonna be difficult to, you know, state visit to quite a scene, too.
The president was hosting Chinese leader Xi Jinping for a state dinner at the White House in what Trump called a made-for-TV moment. But the cameras that would normally capture that were turned off, as the five major networks that make up the White House TV pool continue their boycott in solidarity with reporters that Trump has banned. A judge blocked Trump's ban yesterday, but some journalists still had trouble getting access, and the White House has not formally agreed to let CNN back into pool coverage. The whole thing led to a slightly surreal scene last night, with some American journalists blocked from entering the White House while Chinese state media was welcomed inside. During the visit, Trump appeared to make a joke with Xi about how China had the friendliest press corps.
At the dinner itself, Trump said he had quote, never gotten along better with the Chinese leader, even as the two countries face deep divides over artificial intelligence, Taiwan, trade. On that point, the Trump administration announced the extension of a trade truce between China and the US earlier this week. But in all, Xi's visit seemed to be less about policy and more about pomp and circumstance, with lavish ceremonies, military flyovers, and gifts. Trump gave the Chinese leader a statue of a bald eagle, and she said that China would be sending two more pandas to a US zoo.
Now, two updates from the United Nations General Assembly in New York. First, all eyes were on the Palestinian leader and the Israeli Prime Minister yesterday as they delivered a pair of dueling speeches. Our people are being
subjected at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces to killing, destruction, starvation, and attempts at displacement. Starvation and attempts at displacement.
In a pre-taped video address via an interpreter, the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of carrying out a genocidal campaign against his people, saying that continued Israeli attacks in Gaza and settler violence in the West Bank were part of a quote malicious colonial scheme. Hours later, as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage.
If there are any other moral cowards who haven't yet left this hall, please do so now.
Many countries diplomats walked out on him.
To all those that are spreading these lies about my country and about our brave soldiers, whether they sit in this hall or in the office of the anti Semitic mayor of New York, I say this. Shame on you.
In his speech, Netanyahu pushed back sharply on his critics, pounding the lectern, raising his voice, and specifically attacking New York's mayor Zoran Mamdani, who has called Netanyahu a war criminal. Analysts say that for Netanyahu, his UN speech was at least partly directed at audiences back home in Israel, where he's in the middle of a tough reelection campaign. There, Netanyahu's party has used Mamdani as a kind of political foil because of his criticism of Israel. It's even put Mamdani's face on billboards and campaign posters there, alongside images of the leaders of Iran and Hezbollah.
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