Remember when the media covered the number of scoops of ice cream Trump had or that he was drinking like a dozen Diet Cokes a day? Add ‘he asked someone who kept coughing during his interview to leave the room’ to that list.
The nerve of the president asking someone who was coughing to leave so they wouldn’t be a distraction during his interview!
Yes, yes we are rolling our eyes.
A lot.
And you’d think by now nothing would surprise us when talking about the lovely, traditional media.
Trump hustled Mulvaney out of the Oval Officr for coughing during the interview. #leavetheroom #mulvaneycough pic.twitter.com/kE8oRBJY70
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 17, 2019
Nobody likes that.
But you know how it goes … say it with us: ORANGE. MAN. BAD.
“If you’re going to cough, please leave the room…” https://t.co/LWnNwJMWjS
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 17, 2019
Coughing. We're are now covering ***checks notes*** coughing. Well done everyone.
— Chris Tsotsoros (@ctsotsoros) June 17, 2019
Yup.
Coughing.
And yup, everything is still stupid.
Yashar Ali responded.
POTUS is right. And if you’re going to stay in the room, at least make an attempt to do something about it…
*this does not apply to people with a chronic condition. So don’t waste your time Dming me about the rare Luxembourg cough syndrome you have. I’m not talking about you https://t.co/CKg4KmKnVl
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) June 17, 2019
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Yashar is right.
Who knew?
We like how he tried to curb any angry DMs about chronic coughing as well, it’s like he really knows Twitter.
But sadly that didn’t curb the outrage-brigade.
The only thing he cared about is that it might hurt his TV interview. It wasn't about health
— Frida Ghitis (@FridaGhitis) June 17, 2019
So?
Disappointing take on this. I’m not going to lie.
— Judy Gauer Delp (@LA_Jude) June 17, 2019
How DARE Yahsar not be as outraged as everyone else!
It was the WAY he acted, and the way he SAID it, not the request itself. Coughs are generally involuntary. The trouble us the man is ALWAYS "playing human" and this bizzare moment is a distilled example of that.
— Screaming into the void (@awessendorf) June 17, 2019
Anything to be outraged.
I would kind of say the opposite. I do get bronchitis on the regular, and when I have it I make an effort to stay out of any meetings or public spaces where people are gonna be trying to hearing things because that's rude. Standing up to leave a room & coming back in would be++
— a rictus of politesse (@ribblefizz) June 17, 2019
Notice this person didn’t actually read Yashar’s tweet, otherwise, he or she wouldn’t have yammered on and on about having bronchitis.
You’re … you’re being sarcastic, right?
— Tara Charnow (@merlinsclaw) June 17, 2019
They’re outraged that Yashar tried to stop the outrage.
Think about that for a minute.
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