# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/61 "2017-07-03T16:17:22Z")
> [@Okrahoma](#): > > Yes. You’re mistaking me for someone who thinks that the play incited murder. I don’t think it did. And I don’t think Trump’s joke was inciting violence. But if someone thinks that Trump’s tweet “incited violence” then logically they have to admit that the play incited murder. :shrug: Incite violence against MSM? Maybe, donno. I do know that it was a moronic and childish thing to tweet. Just like our President. ---
**Author:** ![BeepKillBeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BeepKillBeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeepKillBeep)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/62 "2017-07-03T16:21:14Z")
If it was the only outlandish thing done by Trump, and say done on April 1st, it would actually be pretty funny in my view. It was like Justin Trudeau challenging Matthew Perry to a fight this passed April Fool’s Day. But with Trump it is just another in a long line of tweets, speeches, actions that speak to his lack of character. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/63 "2017-07-03T16:22:44Z")
And it turns out the person who originally made the video in question is an antisemite. I’m shocked! SHOCKED! I tell you. (he also posted on reddit a graphic of every Jewish person who works for CNN marked with a blue Jewish star). ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/64 "2017-07-03T16:33:35Z")
To be honest, I wish CNN hadn’t taken the victim role in this. They could have risen above Trump’s display of immaturity with some dignified humor, but they chose to make it look like their lives are in danger. That just feeds into Trump’s ego and makes them look like bitches. Besides, if Trump does somehow arrange for CNN to be physically attacked, that would be the greatest thing to ever happen to them. How many other news organizations actually provoked a president into a scuffle, and how bad would that ruin his career and get the 25th Amendment forces stoked to remove his orange ass? ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/65 "2017-07-03T17:28:55Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > We like this country as much as the republicans do and we are trying to do what’s best for it. Except come out and vote. ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/66 "2017-07-03T22:35:18Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > Except come out and vote. And how’s that working out for you? You’re liking the way Trump is handling things? See, for the people who still support Trump, this sort of thing IS what they like. It doesn’t matter what Trump does or doesn’t do, what matters is that he insults people they don’t like and that’s enough for them. ---
**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 4, 2017, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/67 "2017-07-04T01:03:47Z")
> [@Okrahoma](#): > > Yes. You’re mistaking me for someone who thinks that the play incited murder. I don’t think it did. And I don’t think Trump’s joke was inciting violence. But if someone thinks that Trump’s tweet “incited violence” then logically they have to admit that the play incited murder. If see you came back but didn’t answer my question. You probably just missed it, it’s post 51. ---
**Author:** ![Okrahoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@Okrahoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okrahoma)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/68 "2017-07-04T01:52:09Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > If see you came back but didn’t answer my question. You probably just missed it, it’s post 51. You think you have some “gotcha” question? Yes, it is childish (as a lot of jokes are). I don’t find it irresponsible or, especially, “bullying”. Now you - do you think it was “incitement to violence” and if so, do you find things like pretend-assassinating Trump in a play or pretend-beheading him “incitement to murder”? ---
**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 4, 2017, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/69 "2017-07-04T02:50:15Z")
You are still having trouble with the difference between the commander in chief and a has been comedian. It’s all about context. Plus, Kathy doesn’t have legions of lunatic followers. My concern wasn’t that he was inciting to violence (that was your attempt to derail the thread), my concern is that it is coo coo behavior for our president. But in as much it might be construed as a call to violence, I still don’t think the play was a call to murder. But why must you search for equilibrium? Can’t your side sometimes just be wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Okrahoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@Okrahoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okrahoma)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/70 "2017-07-04T03:19:10Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > My concern wasn’t that he was inciting to violence (that was your attempt to derail the thread), my concern is that it is coo coo behavior for our president. I don’t think it is. It is a breath of fresh air to have someone at the top who is not a rigid poseur with a stick up his butt like Hillary or Obama, with every word scripted and focus-group tested. I am so sorry if that offends you. Better luck next election. ---
**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 4, 2017, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/71 "2017-07-04T06:49:19Z")
> [@Okrahoma](#): > > I don’t think it is. It is a breath of fresh air to have someone at the top who is not a rigid poseur with a stick up his butt like Hillary or Obama, with every word scripted and focus-group tested. > > I am so sorry if that offends you. Better luck next election. Absolutely nothing you say offends me. Though I can understand why it makes you feel better to think so. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/72 "2017-07-04T10:35:57Z")
> [@Okrahoma](#): > > I don’t think it is. It is a breath of fresh air to have someone at the top who is not a rigid poseur with a stick up his butt like Hillary or Obama, with every word scripted and focus-group tested. Yes, it is much better to have a petulant narcissist who says the first thing that comes into his head at all times, no matter how incoherent. How fresh that air is. > [@](#): > > I am so sorry if that offends you. Better luck next election. I’m sorry it doesn’t offend you. Perhaps one day you’ll realize that you lost the last election too. > [@H L Mencken](#): > > The larger the mob, the harder the test. In small areas, before small electorates, a first-rate man occasionally fights his way through, carrying even the mob with him by force of his personality. But when the field is nationwide, and the fight must be waged chiefly at second and third hand, and the force of personality cannot so readily make itself felt, then all the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most easily adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. > > The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/73 "2017-07-04T12:36:08Z")
Just ftr, no, Trump can’t make a GIF, and none of his staffers did it either. [He plagiarized it](http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/03/politics/white-house-video-anti-semitic-connection/index.html) from a bigot on Reddit. ---
**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 4, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/74 "2017-07-04T14:41:37Z")
Yeah, I know but he did tweet it. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/75 "2017-07-04T14:50:14Z")
> [@Okrahoma](#): > > I don’t think it is. It is a breath of fresh air to have someone at the top who is not a rigid poseur with a stick up his butt like Hillary or Obama, with every word scripted and focus-group tested. Yeah, competence is a real snoozer. Nothing livens up a boring cross-country bus ride like a stuck accelerator, failed brakes and an engine fire. ---
**Author:** ![JackieLikesVariety](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackielikesvariety/32/296_2.png) [@JackieLikesVariety](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JackieLikesVariety)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/76 "2017-07-04T15:23:19Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Yeah, competence is a real snoozer. Nothing livens up a boring cross-country bus ride like a stuck accelerator, failed brakes and an engine fire. ah, nice burn 😉 ---
**Author:** ![marshmallow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df705f/32.png) [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2017, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/77 "2017-07-04T17:58:23Z")
> [@Lemur866](#): > > And how’s that working out for you? You’re liking the way Trump is handling things? I’m not sure what my opinion of Trump has to do with the anemic voting behavior of the American left. ---
**Author:** ![Covfefe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@Covfefe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covfefe)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/78 "2017-07-05T03:31:54Z")
> **[How CNN found the Reddit user behind the Trump wrestling GIF | CNN Politics](https://www.cnn.com/2017/07/04/politics/kfile-reddit-user-trump-tweet/index.html)** > > The Reddit user who initially claimed credit for President Donald Trump’s tweet that showed Trump tackling CNN issued an apology Tuesday for the video and other offensive content he posted – one day after CNN identified the man behind the account... > [@](#): > > When asked specifically about his other posts that consisted of racist, Islamophobic, and anti-Semitic language and imagery, he answered, “I love people of all races, creeds and origins. One of my best friends is a homosexual and one of my best friends is Jewish and one of my best friends is Muslim.” Kind of amusing and I can imagine the many hurt feelings on the\_Donald subreddit that this user issued a lengthy apology. But this is ridiculous overkill on CNN’s part. Why not instead do this investigative reporting on the staffer who put the tweet together instead of squishing a single gnat, which makes you again look as pettily vindictive as the president. ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/79 "2017-07-05T10:15:13Z")
> [@yezlles](#): > > But this is ridiculous overkill on CNN’s part. Why not instead do this investigative reporting on the staffer who put the tweet together instead of squishing a single gnat, which makes you again look as pettily vindictive as the president. A billion dollar company threatening to release some asshole’s private information, if his posting from now on isn’t up to their standards, is insane and evil. WTF CNN?! ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361/80 "2017-07-05T13:56:01Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > Except come out and vote. Pretty extreme liberal here, and I echo this sentiment. Eager to see how the dems come out in 18 and 20. Eager to see how - and how strongly - the young and women vote. Eager to see whether the dems will win any of these special elections? If liberals are complacent and apathetic, they deserve what they get. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-punches-cnn/790361.md?page=5)