. ‘I Apologize for Journalism!’ MSNBC’s Ali Velshi Hits the ROOF Over Reporter Asking Trump About Golf at Presser - News Times

‘I Apologize for Journalism!’ MSNBC’s Ali Velshi Hits the ROOF Over Reporter Asking Trump About Golf at Presser

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MSNBC’s Ali Velshi expressed both exasperation over what he called a “bat poop crazy” presser in Scotland with President Donald Trump and fury at some of the questions asked by reporters in the room.

Trump spoke with reporters Sunday alongside European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen from the site of their meeting at his luxury golf resort at Turnberry in Scotland. The two leaders reached a trade agreement that was officially announced shortly after the presser.

But it was what went on during that presser that had the MSNBC host exercised on Velshi, not to mention his guests, columnist and editor of The Contrarian Jen Rubin and Bloomberg Opinion editor Tim O’Brien, both of whom are MSNBC analysts.

After the presser ended, Velshi first reacted by saying, “Wow!”

After a pause, he added, “Uh, I’m not going to say any more words until my executive producer puts on the banner next to me, ‘that was bat poop crazy.’ Just not gonna. That was crazy.”

After noting some of the highlights from the Q&A with Trump and Von der Leyen, Velshi turned to his guests, saying, “I don’t know what to say.”

“It’s unfortunate that in those kind of scrums he’s not challenged in the room,” Rubin said to begin her remarks.

“Yes, that is actually right,” Velshi quickly agreed. “He was not challenged by anybody.”

Rubin said that it’s “extremely unfortunate” that no one in the room for the joint presser on international trade asked Trump about the “cover-up” of Jeffrey Epstein files.

“So what those reporters are doing in that rooms, I do not know,” Rubin said. “It was a very bad showing from the [press].”

“Yeah including somebody asking about — somebody asked him about his mood, somebody asked him about golfing, it’s like, why?”

Velshi then amped it up even more, saying, “I’m sorry for journalism. I apologize for journalism, for some of the questions that were going on.”

Rubin then said three times that “it was appalling” before Velshi turned to O’Brien, and brought up former President Joe Biden as a measuring stick for being “rambly’ or showing cognitive issues, which it is now okay to say about Biden.

“This was rambly to the degree that if anybody — including Joe Biden — anybody held a press conference like this anywhere in the world, they’d be under pressure to resign within an hour because there’s a cognitive issue going on,” he said.

The conversation continued in that way, with Velshi offering multiple fact-checks on Trump’s remarks apparently linking the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 and a peace deal brokered by the White House in June between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

RUBIN: That is crazy. It is also extremely unfortunate that no one in that room asked him about the hugely corrupt, grotesque cover-up of a convicted sex offender and her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and Jeffrey Epstein’s files that he refuses to release. So what those quarters are doing in that room, I do not know. It was a very bad showing from the p–.

VELSHI: Yeah including somebody asking about — somebody asked him about his mood, somebody asked him about golfing, it’s like, why? Why?

I’m sorry for journalism. I apologize for journalism, for some of the questions that were going on.

RUBIN: It was really appalling. It was appalling.

VELSHI: Yeah, it was…

RUBIN: It was appalling.

VELSHI: Tim, I know you’ve followed him for a long time. And we’ve gotten through one Trump administration and there’s always been a lot of crazy at these press conferences. This was rambly to the degree that if anybody — including Joe Biden — anybody held a press conference like this anywhere in the world, they’d be under pressure to resign within an hour because there’s a cognitive issue going on. A very ser– I mean, he answered every question with some rambly answer about something else.

Watch the clip above via MSNBC.

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