# Trump "punches" CNN **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 2, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361 "2017-07-02T15:51:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/1 "2017-07-02T15:51:18Z")
I realize that this is mentioned, buried deep in one of the Trump omnibus pit threads but it needs a wider audience. Welcome to Wonderland: [https://www.google.com/amp/www.nydailynews.com/amp/news/politics/trump-tweets-edited-clip-punching-cnn-wrestlemania-article-1.3295421](https://www.google.com/amp/www.nydailynews.com/amp/news/politics/trump-tweets-edited-clip-punching-cnn-wrestlemania-article-1.3295421) ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/2 "2017-07-02T16:07:54Z")
Trump is the sort of idiot that pissed down his own leg and thinks it’s raining. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/3 "2017-07-02T16:09:25Z")
It’s like the [doctored image of him on the cover of Time magazine](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/28/time-magazinetrump-fake-covers-golf-clubs)that he had reproduced and framed in various Trump locations. And then he talks about fake news … I don’t know what his mother did with him as a child but he’s not getting over it. It’s so desperate. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/4 "2017-07-02T16:09:47Z")
I guess he’s really bored with being president and has to make it more fun for himself. In fact, being pres muse seem an awful lot like work. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/5 "2017-07-02T16:25:26Z")
So the guy who whines about ‘fake news’ puts a pro wrestling clip, which is fake, out on Twitter. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/6 "2017-07-02T16:36:31Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > So the guy who whines about ‘fake news’ puts a pro wrestling clip, which is fake, out on Twitter. The irony is always wasted on him. Then again, so is the air that he breathes. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/7 "2017-07-02T16:47:23Z")
If Trump punched you, how else would you know if he didn’t tweet it? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/8 "2017-07-02T16:51:17Z")
> [@Trancephalic](#): > > If Trump punched you, how else would you know if he didn’t tweet it? The smear of spray-tan? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/9 "2017-07-02T17:47:33Z")
My eyes must be getting bad. I didn’t see the CNN logo on the guy’s face. Is it there in the video? On NPR the other day, one of the hosts kicked off the discussion about Trump’s Mika tweet by saying: Candidate Trump said that once he’s president, he’ll be so presidential we’ll all be bored. Well, he’s the president now, and we are not bored! ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/10 "2017-07-02T17:58:29Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > I realize that this is mentioned, buried deep in one of the Trump omnibus pit threads but it needs a wider audience. Welcome to Wonderland: > > [https://www.google.com/amp/www.nydailynews.com/amp/news/politics/trump-tweets-edited-clip-punching-cnn-wrestlemania-article-1.3295421](https://www.google.com/amp/www.nydailynews.com/amp/news/politics/trump-tweets-edited-clip-punching-cnn-wrestlemania-article-1.3295421) Most Presidents have areas if interest in which they hope to focus. Maybe plans to make a difference in some specific and lasting way. Big ideas, legacies. These idiot tweets are demonstrations of the things that occupy Trump’s mind. He isn’t some genius who puts these out as masterful midirection, he’s too simple minded to realize that most people can be aware of, and interested in more than a few things simultaneously. Because people comment on these idiot negation of dignity tweets, does not mean that they have lost sight of anything important. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/11 "2017-07-02T18:07:51Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > My eyes must be getting bad. I didn’t see the CNN logo on the guy’s face. Is it there in the video? At the top of the page is the original Wrestlemania footage. Further down on the page there’s the one with the CNN logo. It’s actually funny. If he wants to use Twitter to attack the media with a wrestling clip it’s a far better approach than the crude personal attacks on newsertainment personalities. Hitting back at a major news organization like CNN is within the realm of the political arena for a president. Hitting the pawns as he typically does is cowardly for the POTUS to do. It’s now surprise though, he’s never been known for picking a fight unless he has an unfair advantage going in. Let’s see if he ever stands up to Putin or anyone else that counts. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/12 "2017-07-02T18:09:19Z")
Just shows we have a six-year-old brat for President. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/13 "2017-07-02T18:15:36Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > At the top of the page is the original Wrestlemania footage. Further down on the page there’s the one with the CNN logo. Ah, got it. What have we done to ourselves!?!? Has it been 4 years yet? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/14 "2017-07-02T18:19:35Z")
I thought I had felt enough shame and mortification over Trump’s antics, then realized today that there was still a deeper level yet to be dug and I could still feel even more ashamed and embarrassed yet. I have a deep capacity for humiliation… ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/15 "2017-07-02T18:32:49Z")
It’s very normal and reasonable that the President of the United States posted something like that and the type of people that would respond and approve of it are good-natured and rational individuals. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/16 "2017-07-02T18:55:10Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > It’s very normal and reasonable that the President of the United States posted something like that and the type of people that would respond and approve of it are good-natured and rational individuals. …J/K!!!\* \*I’m sure it was a personal emergency and **Quimby** simply couldn’t get back in time to edit his post. No need to thank me. Always there to help out a poster in need. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/17 "2017-07-02T19:05:10Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > What have we done to ourselves!?!? Has it been 4 years yet? We did do it to ourselves, and continue to do it with an another over the top reaction to something barely worth mentioning in the first place. We’ve just seen that anti-Trump hysteria doesn’t win elections, the country’s business remains undone, the Fourth Estate continues to play this game and gives Trump the power to bring us down. The opposition party offers only butt-hurt whining in response, devoid of leadership, we have self-fulfilled the paranoid ravings of the disgruntled and made the government the implement of our destruction. I won’t just sit here and watch this happen though, I’m going to go rearrange some deck chairs. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/18 "2017-07-02T19:08:22Z")
“Up with this I will not put!” - Christopher Hitchens ---
**Author:** ![Okrahoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@Okrahoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okrahoma)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/19 "2017-07-02T19:15:27Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > We did do it to ourselves, and continue to do it with an another over the top reaction to something barely worth mentioning in the first place. We’ve just seen that anti-Trump hysteria doesn’t win elections, the country’s business remains undone, the Fourth Estate continues to play this game and gives Trump the power to bring us down. The opposition party offers only butt-hurt whining in response, devoid of leadership, we have self-fulfilled the paranoid ravings of the disgruntled and made the government the implement of our destruction. I won’t just sit here and watch this happen though, I’m going to go rearrange some deck chairs. QFT 🙂 But I like people to keep going with anti-Trump hysteria, it’s fun to watch and will help Trump to be re-elected. ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2017, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/20 "2017-07-02T19:26:17Z")
Funny, CNN posted Sarah Huckaderp’s “Trump never incites violence” the day before Hairy the Yam posts this. Now even sarah knows he’s an unpredictable, lying, stool sample. Must be great working for a boss that publicly makes a liar out of you. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361.md?page=2)