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Trump Seemed to Insinuate That All Black People Know Each Other & Told a Jewish Reporter to Be Quiet At Thursday’s Press Conference

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President Donald Trump held his first solo news conference Thursday and his comments and actions left the Internet seething, to say the least.

As reported by Buzzfeed News, reporter April Ryan asked Trump if he would meet with the Congressional Black Caucus. Trump’s response? He asked if the Congressional Black Caucus were friends of Ryan’s. “Well, I would. I tell you what, you want to set up the meeting? Do you want to set up the meeting? Are they friends of yours?” said Trump.

Even after Ryan explained that she was a reporter, Trump still insisted and said, “Let’s go, set up a meeting. I would love to meet with the black caucus. I think it’s great. The Congressional Black Caucus. I think it’s great.”

The internet was understandably and unsurprisingly unhappy with the exchange and took to Twitter to express their disdain. 

April Ryan also had something to say and she tweeted a response to Trump.

At the same press conference, Trump also called a Jewish reporter a liar and told him to sit down after the reporter asked him about a rise in anti-Semitism.

Jake Turx, the senior White House correspondent for Jewish publication Ami Magazine, asked how Trump’s administration would respond to bomb threats issued against dozens of Jewish community centers last month, according to Buzzfeed News. Trump said that question was not “simple or fair” and told Turx to sit down. He also called Turx a liar and went on a rant about being attacked and called anti-Semitic.

“See, he lied about—he was going to get up and ask a very straight, simple question. So, you know, welcome to the world of the media,” Trump said. “I hate the charge. I find it repulsive. I hate even the question because people that know me—and you heard the Prime Minister, you heard Benjamin Netanyahu, did you hear him, Bibi? He said, ‘I’ve known Donald Trump for a long time,’ and then he said, ‘Forget it.’ So you should take that instead of having to get up and ask a very insulting question like that.”

The internet obviously had something to say about this exchange as well.

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Dania De La Hoya

Illinois State

Dania De La Hoya is a senior at Illinois State University double majoring in Journalism and French. She hopes to one day work for anything from a magazine to a newspaper to a TV station. Her biggest goal is to one day publish a fiction novel. When she is not writing or juggling three languages, she can be found binge-watching her latest obsession on Netflix, eating guacamole, or petting cute dogs. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @daniadelahoya.