As he was shaking his hands, with limp wrists, his fingers hung downwards a few times. It is cruel, hurtful, and despicable.įor five seconds, while mocking the reporter, Trump shook his hands and flailed his arms around, with bent elbows.
Needless to say, one should not ridicule any person’s disability. It did not even occur to me that the reporter had a disability. When he ridiculed the reporter, some people in the audience laughed and applauded. I actually saw Trump’s theatrics, the day he spoke, watching the speech online. “…written by a nice reporter, now the poor guy you’ve gotta see this guy: ‘uh-uh-aah, I don’t know what I said, aah-aah, I don’t remember!!’ He’s going like: ‘I don’t remember! Uh-ah, oh maybe that’s what I said!!’ This is fourteen years ago, he still, they didn’t do a retraction!!” Having been widely ridiculed, Trump now saw The Washington Post trying to suddenly retract a news report published 14 years ago. Now, although that news report supports Trump’s claim that many people in New Jersey had celebrated 9/11, a reporter in question, Serge Kovaleski, suddenly claimed that he did not “not recall whether the allegations were ever confirmed.”
In 2001 the journalist had reported that, during the attacks of September 11, 2001, authorities in New Jersey investigated “people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops.” On November 24, 2015, at a rally in South Carolina (at 46:00), Donald Trump ridiculed a journalist. Reporters and pundits did not know (or care) that this was a common way in which Trump mocks some individuals, so they focused on a freeze-frame in which Trump’s right elbow and wrist were momentarily bent, to make it seem that he was mimicking Kovaleski’s disability. Army General, George Stephanopoulos, Ted Cruz, Hillary Clinton, and Donna Brazile. Consider ten examples: he did this to make fun of himself, a bank president, Marco Rubio, Serge Kovaleski, The Washington Post, a U.S. Trump.ĭonald Trump cruelly mimicked and ridiculed a reporter’s disability.įrom 2005 until 2016, Trump occasionally mocked some individuals by shaking his arms with limp wrists and gaping his mouth. An expanded, revised version of this article is now available in the new book: The Media Versus the Apprentice: The Devil Mr.
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