President Donald Trump did not take kindly to being asked whether he believed bombing civilian power plants and bridges would constitute war crimes after he threatened to do just that in Iran.

The president, 80, was taking questions from reporters in the Oval Office when he was asked about his threat this week on Truth Social.

“You’re talking about blowing up civilian power plants and bridges. Much of the civilized world would consider that a war crime. Do you?” the reporter asked Trump point blank.

The president paused for a moment before deciding it was probably best not to answer the question at all, which had clearly annoyed him.

“Uhhh, I won’t respond to that question,” Trump said before demanding to know which outlet the reporter worked for.

“The New York Times,” the reporter responded.

“I figured so; the failing New York Times,” Trump said before turning away.

HE ordered the targeting of civilians (remember the girls school?) and civilian infrastructure. War criminals are held to account. If you don't wanna be a war criminal held to account, stop doing war crimes.

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[–] 173 points 1 day ago (2 children)

He wasnt cornered. He was asked a question, refused to answer and nobody else asked the same thing.

Journalists in America are fucking cowards

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  • [–] 26 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    All the news outlets are owned by right wing billionaires

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  • [–] 4 points 9 hours ago

    True but if all their journalists are either being banned from the whitehouse for asking difficult questions or are quitting in protest then they'll probably be doing a cost benefit analysis to determine what is going to effect them financially

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    It's more about the fact that reporters who ask questions like that don't find their way back into the press room.

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    This. I served as the Opinion Editor of my college newspaper. I hung around students who saw themselves as "real" journalists and they saw it as their duty to annoy the living hell out of administrators and others, often in defiance of the faculty representative in the paper office. I knew guys who would just walk into board meetings uninvited. They'd corner the university president. They'd go to meetings and ask questions that the administrators clearly did not want to answer and then push on them to give an answer. Freedom of the Press is not something that is comfortable. It will have push-back, the laws designed to protect it have to be activated from time-to-time. What's been the most successful tool of curtailing the "Fourth Estate" in modern politics is not silencing so much as fostering a space where the press never use their freedoms.

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