President Trump faced a very antagonistic media on the day after the midterm elections, offering a soft tone about his desire to work across the aisle with Nancy Pelosi and Democrats in the House. He said he understands that Pelosi loves the country and he hopes compromise can be possible.
The president began the wide-ranging press conference with a focus on the election results, but it soon devolved into brazen and shocking media attacks that appeared designed to frustrate and enrage the president.
CNN’s Jim Acosta stood defiantly on the front row, badgering the president over and over about the caravan and the Russia election, refusing to release the microphone, standing right in front of the president in a shocking confrontation.
The president told him his time was done, telling him to sit down and to stop being a “rude, terrible person.” Eventually, Trump had to walk away from the microphone because Acosta wouldn’t stop creating a spectacle.
Near the end of the hour-long event, the president circled back to the issue, saying he hopes the tone in America can get better if the media will tone down their attacks.
One of the few productive and peaceful moments of the event came when a Jewish reporter asked the president about God’s place in his administration.
“God plays a very big role in my life,” Trump said. He pointed out that God’s place is apparent in the lives of many members of his administration, including the vice president.
When asked about congressional action for the rest of the year, the president said he could not imagine taking up the issue of immigration and recognized the new Democratic House and the Republican Senate may go in different directions when it comes to legislation.
The president also said he would consider raising other tax rates to pay for a middle-class tax cut. He had proposed another 10 percent tax cut while campaigning for the midterms.
But he said if Democrats offer an idea for tax cuts, he would work with them, even if it would require “some adjustment” to other rates.
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