Politics
WATCH: Trump Snaps At ‘Second Rate’ Reporter Yamiche Alcindor
President Donald Trump had zero patience for notoriously biased NBC News White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor while speaking with reporters outside the White House on Sunday.
Alcindor asked the president about a meme he posted that referenced multiple ongoing news cycles, including the Defense Department name revert to the Department of War and the impending federal surge in Chicago. The meme in question depicts a famous quote from the 1979 classic “Apocalypse Now,” in which Robert Duvall’s character says, “I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like; victory.”
“I love the smell of deportations in the morning,” read’s Trump’s caption on the image, which featured a digitalized image of himself dressed as Duvall’s character. “Chicago about to find out why it’s called the Department of WAR,” the caption continues, followed by helicopter emojis.
Alcindor — who frequently clashed with Trump during his first term in office — asked the president whether the meme ment he was “going to war” with Chicago.
“When you say that, darling, that’s fake news,” Trump said while speaking with reporters before heading to New York for the U.S. Open final. Alcindor then attempted to follow up but was quickly cut off.
“Be quiet, listen!” Trump snapped. “You don’t listen! You never listen. That’s why you’re second-rate. We’re not going to war, we’re gonna clean up our cities. We’re gonna clean them up, so they don’t kill five people every weekend. That’s not war, that’s common sense.”
This past Friday, Trump signed an executive order that will rename the Defense Department to the Department of War, which is what it was known as from the nation’s founding until 1949. The president has also been teasing a massive surge in Chicago involving federal agents and National Guard personnel, a move that would build upon his crime crackdown in the nation’s capital.
