# Trump's first press conference as president-elect **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 11, 2017, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-press-conference-as-president-elect/776878 "2017-01-11T17:33:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2017, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-press-conference-as-president-elect/776878/121 "2017-01-13T22:31:42Z")
> [@Kimstu](#): > > So, is Dillon correct that Trump the businessman getting lucrative hotel business from foreign diplomats trying to get in good with Trump the President wouldn’t be any kind of a problem as far as the Emoluments Clause is concerned? Or is she just blowing smoke? As you may have heard, if the President does it, that means it is not illegal. ---
**Author:** ![Sterling\_Archer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Sterling\_Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterling_Archer)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-press-conference-as-president-elect/776878/122 "2017-01-15T04:35:23Z")
The cognitive dissonance and lack of irony in this entire conversation broke my brain. Fair and balanced, right? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/E54Ggu8tjV0/maxresdefault.jpg "Kimberly Guilfoyle on Trump’s battle against ‘fake news’") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E54Ggu8tjV0) ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-press-conference-as-president-elect/776878/123 "2017-01-15T05:04:46Z")
> [@Sterling\_Archer](#): > > The cognitive dissonance and lack of irony in this entire conversation broke my brain. Fair and balanced, right? > > [https://youtu.be/E54Ggu8tjV0](https://youtu.be/E54Ggu8tjV0) I don’t watch FOX News or FOX Business, like, ever. So I’m not that familiar with the talking heads they employ. Are the women on these shows always dressed up like WWE Divas? ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2017, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-press-conference-as-president-elect/776878/124 "2017-01-15T05:08:10Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Lets just get rid of that whole pesky first amendment thing while we are at it, it’s like a free license to criticize dear leader Trump, and we can’t have that. Besides that unamerican move, Trump was also dead wrong when he accused CNN of doing the same like Buzzfeed while he praised The New York Times and others for just summarizing or not being specific about the dossier while Buzzfeed published the thing. [http://thehill.com/homenews/media/313797-tapper-defends-cnn-coverage-after-heated-trump-presser](http://thehill.com/homenews/media/313797-tapper-defends-cnn-coverage-after-heated-trump-presser) > [@](#): > > CNN’s Jake Tapper defended his network Wednesday over reports claiming Russia tried to compromise Donald Trump, stating the president-elect and his team were conflating CNN’s reporting with BuzzFeed’s. > > The defense came after Trump and incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer slammed CNN and BuzzFeed in Trump’s first press conference as president-elect. > > Tapper defended his network’s reporting in the moments after the press conference finished, contrasting CNN’s coverage with BuzzFeed’s decision Tuesday night to publish an unverified dossier involving Trump and Russia. > > “At the beginning of the press conference, Sean Spicer, who’s going to be the White House [press] secretary, suggested that both BuzzFeed and CNN published this dossier full of uncorroborated rumors. That’s not true. That’s false. CNN never did that,” he said. > > “That conflation — whether because Sean Spicer misunderstood or some other reason — that’s not true.” > > Tapper then defended his colleague, Jim Acosta, who got into a heated exchange with Trump at the press conference after the president-elect refused Acosta’s demands to be able to ask a question after “his network was attacked.” > > Trump called CNN and Acosta “fake news,” refusing to allow the CNN reporter to ask a question. ---
**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:** [January 15, 2017, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-press-conference-as-president-elect/776878/125 "2017-01-15T16:09:55Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Voice to text. > > 😉 Trump: “InDUStry” V2T: “In dust tree” Trump: “NO! INDUStry!” V2T: “No Indus tree” Trump: “NO,NO,NO! inDUStry! inDUStry!” V2T: “нет нет нет, промышленность!” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2017, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-press-conference-as-president-elect/776878/126 "2017-01-16T00:34:33Z")
At what point are Trump’s tweets gonna be put in the Cafe Society thread? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-first-press-conference-as-president-elect/776878.md?page=6)