Former President Trump on Wednesday clashed with an ABC News correspondent at a convention of Black journalists, slamming her “disgraceful” questioning after she asked why Black voters should trust him with another term.
Former President Trump on Wednesday clashed with an ABC News correspondent at a convention of Black journalists, slamming her “disgraceful” questioning after she asked why Black voters should trust him with another term.
This wording paints a picture of physical violence. Considering how unhinged he is, it wouldn’t surprise me if he struck the interviewer like how Netanyahu struck that child for not kissing him.
That was Erdoğan, Netanyahu is a shitty politician, too, but let’s give credit where credit is due.
Right right, silly me, thank you
This wording is called headlinese. It’s the way we’ve written headlines and news articles for over 100 years. For the United States at least, to slam someone has been shorthand for lambasting someone. For several generations.
The more I think about it the more interesting it is that the skill of reading headlines is somehow disappearing from the population despite people still having to read them constantly.