{"id":1675,"date":"2013-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/35.224.237.165\/index.php\/2019\/02\/25\/president-trump-holds-press-conference-to-read-list-of-black-friends\/"},"modified":"2019-02-26T04:58:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:58:09","slug":"president-trump-holds-press-conference-to-read-list-of-black-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/2013\/03\/16\/president-trump-holds-press-conference-to-read-list-of-black-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump Holds Press Conference To Read List of Black Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"\" alt=\" \" \/><\/p>\n<h6>By <a href=\"\/search?author=Reed Thurston\">Reed Thurston<\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>Feb. 1, 2017<\/h6>\n<p><insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"2\" data-time=\"1485988886934\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\"><delete class=\"del cts-1\" data-cid=\"3\" data-time=\"1485988898584\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">President Trump Holds Press Conference To Read List of Black Friends<\/delete><delete class=\"del cts-1\" data-cid=\"3\" data-time=\"1485988898584\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\"> <\/delete>In the wake of a turbulent and unnerving transition of power, the newly-elected President Donald Trump called <delete class=\"del cts-2\" data-cid=\"4\" data-time=\"1490660273359\" data-userid=\"28\" data-username=\"Nik Varley\">together <\/delete>an \u2018urgent\u2019 press hearing earlier this week to <delete class=\"del cts-2\" data-cid=\"5\" data-time=\"1490660325234\" data-userid=\"28\" data-username=\"Nik Varley\">address the ongoing controversy of his election and <\/delete>allay the nation\u2019s concerns by reciting a \u2018complete\u2019 list of the new Commander in Chief\u2019s closest black friends. <\/insert><\/p>\n<p><insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"2\" data-time=\"1485988886934\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">Hosting the event and welcoming press representatives to a high-rise ballroom inside Trump Tower was Emmy-nominated and visibly uncomfortable actor Idris Elba, who read a brief greeting from a teleprompter before inviting Trump onstage and promptly leaving the room. Taking the podium and thanking \u201cMr. Cheadle\u201d for hosting, Trump opened by giving a brief, semi-prepared introductory address which touched on the struggles of \u201cblack people of color in America, and in many, many other places,\u201d before eventually concluding that slavery was \u201ca very, very bad thing.\u201d <insert class=\"ins cts-2\" data-cid=\"7\" data-time=\"1490660387502\" data-userid=\"28\" data-username=\"Nik Varley\"><\/insert><\/insert><\/p>\n<p><insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"2\" data-time=\"1485988886934\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\"><insert class=\"ins cts-2\" data-cid=\"7\" data-time=\"1490660387502\" data-userid=\"28\" data-username=\"Nik Varley\">Trump then unrolled <\/insert><delete class=\"del cts-2\" data-cid=\"6\" data-time=\"1490660387496\" data-userid=\"28\" data-username=\"Nik Varley\">Producing and unrolling<\/delete> what appeared to be a large parchment scroll<delete class=\"del cts-2\" data-cid=\"38\" data-time=\"1490660439252\" data-userid=\"28\" data-username=\"Nik Varley\">,<\/delete> <insert class=\"ins cts-2\" data-cid=\"28\" data-time=\"1490660415083\" data-userid=\"28\" data-username=\"Nik Varley\">and began <\/insert><delete class=\"del cts-2\" data-cid=\"27\" data-time=\"1490660415077\" data-userid=\"28\" data-username=\"Nik Varley\">Trump started off by <\/delete>listing a number of African-American politicians and millionaires with whom he had some feasible connections<insert class=\"ins cts-2\" data-cid=\"40\" data-time=\"1490660460840\" data-userid=\"28\" data-username=\"Nik Varley\">. <\/insert><delete class=\"del cts-2\" data-cid=\"39\" data-time=\"1490660460371\" data-userid=\"28\" data-username=\"Nik Varley\">, <\/delete><delete class=\"del cts-2\" data-cid=\"41\" data-time=\"1490660469818\" data-userid=\"28\" data-username=\"Nik Varley\">however gradually waning in credibility as t<\/delete><insert class=\"ins cts-2\" data-cid=\"125\" data-time=\"1490660503774\" data-userid=\"28\" data-username=\"Nik Varley\">However, t<\/insert>he newly-elected President<insert class=\"ins cts-2\" data-cid=\"88\" data-time=\"1490660486008\" data-userid=\"28\" data-username=\"Nik Varley\">&#8216;s credibility gradually waned as he<\/insert> began to list such figures as \u201cGeorge Jefferson, Harriett Tubman, and The L.A. Lakers.\u201d <\/insert><\/p>\n<p><insert class=\"ins cts-1\" data-cid=\"2\" data-time=\"1485988886934\" data-userid=\"23\" data-username=\"Jacob Levin\">By the time Trump\u2019s list had meandered and digressed into a ranking of his favorite Eddie Murphy films, a reporter from CNN stood to interject a question for Trump regarding his ties with Russia, to which the President quickly retorted with, \u201cWatchu talkin\u2019 bout, Willis?\u201d, garnering much laughter from the \u2018paid\u2019 section of the audience, while the reporter was escorted from the room by security.\tBefore opening the floor to questions from pre-approved members of the press, Trump directed the audience\u2019s attention to a full jazz band accompaniment onstage, which proceeded to deliver a brassy and enthusiastic performance of the theme from Family Matters, while media representatives were distributed gift baskets containing cologne, malt liquor, a copy of Jet magazine, and a pair of Nike Air Jordans.<\/insert><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Reed Thurston Feb. 1, 2017 President Trump Holds Press Conference To Read List of Black Friends In the wake of a turbulent and unnerving transition of power, the newly-elected President Donald Trump called together an \u2018urgent\u2019 press hearing earlier this week to address the ongoing controversy of his election and allay the nation\u2019s concerns by reciting a \u2018complete\u2019 list of the new Commander in Chief\u2019s closest black friends. Hosting the event and welcoming press representatives to a high-rise ballroom inside Trump Tower was Emmy-nominated and visibly uncomfortable actor Idris Elba, who read a brief greeting from a teleprompter before inviting Trump onstage and promptly leaving the room. Taking the podium and thanking \u201cMr. Cheadle\u201d for hosting, Trump opened by giving a brief, semi-prepared introductory address which touched on the struggles of \u201cblack people of color in America, and in many, many other places,\u201d before eventually concluding that slavery was \u201ca very, very bad thing.\u201d Trump then unrolled Producing and unrolling what appeared to be a large parchment scroll, and began Trump started off by listing a number of African-American politicians and millionaires with whom he had some feasible connections. , however gradually waning in credibility as tHowever, the newly-elected President&#8216;s credibility gradually waned as he began to list such figures as \u201cGeorge Jefferson, Harriett Tubman, and The L.A. Lakers.\u201d By the time Trump\u2019s list had meandered and digressed into a ranking of his favorite Eddie Murphy films, a reporter from CNN stood to interject a question for Trump regarding his ties with Russia, to which the President quickly retorted with, \u201cWatchu talkin\u2019 bout, Willis?\u201d, garnering much laughter from the \u2018paid\u2019 section of the audience, while the reporter was escorted from the room by security. Before opening the floor to questions from pre-approved members of the press, Trump directed the audience\u2019s attention to a full jazz band accompaniment onstage, which proceeded to deliver a brassy and enthusiastic performance of the theme from Family Matters, while media representatives were distributed gift baskets containing cologne, malt liquor, a copy of Jet magazine, and a pair of Nike Air Jordans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2708,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1675\/revisions\/2708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chicagoshadydealer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}