{"id":35362,"date":"2017-07-03T00:41:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T00:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/lawmakers-blast-trump-s-crude-false-and\/"},"modified":"2017-07-03T00:41:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T00:41:37","slug":"lawmakers-blast-trump-s-crude-false-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/lawmakers-blast-trump-s-crude-false-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers blast Trump\u2019s \u2018crude, false, and unpresidential\u2019 CNN tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Another bizarre tweet from the president of the United States. Another round of outrage and condemnation from lawmakers.}<\/p>\n<p>President Trump on Sunday morning posted to Twitter a doctored video clip that showed him slamming a man \u2014 with \u201cCNN\u201d superimposed on his head \u2014 to the ground. In the video, Trump then throws punches at the man\u2019s head, before walking away.<\/p>\n<p>Trump appended the tweet with two hashtags: \u201c#FraudNewsCNN\u201d and \u201c#FNN.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video, which reportedly originated on Reddit last week, was quickly blasted on social media as not befitting of the office of the president and appearing to promote violence against CNN\u2019s journalists. Trump has long had an antagonistic relationship with the cable news network, often accusing it of being \u201cFake News.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On ABC\u2019s \u201cThis Week\u201d on Sunday, homeland security adviser Tom Bossert pursed his lips when shown the tweet on air, then defended Trump, saying he was communicating directly in a \u201cgenuine\u201d way to Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that no one would perceive that as a threat,\u201d Bossert told \u201cThis Week\u201d host Martha Raddatz. \u201cI hope they don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers felt otherwise, taking to Twitter to blast Trump for, again, tweeting \u201ccrude, false, and unpresidential content.\u201d Many defended the free press as critical to the nation\u2019s democracy, especially with Independence Day on the horizon.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-21090 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/juu.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source : Washington Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Another bizarre tweet from the president of the United States. Another round of outrage and condemnation from lawmakers.} President Trump on Sunday morning posted to Twitter a doctored video clip that showed him slamming a man \u2014 with \u201cCNN\u201d superimposed on his head \u2014 to the ground. In the video, Trump then throws punches at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-35362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35362"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35362"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}