Trump blasts reporter who interrupted his press conference response

2DEBCKT Washington, United States. 29th Nov, 2020. President Donald Trump holds a press briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on Tuesday, July 28, 2020, in Washington, DC. Trump again defended his claim for the drug hydroxychloroquine in the treatment of COVID-19 even though scientists in the United States and elsewhere say the drug is not useful and may cause serious heart problems. Photo by Oliver Contreras/UPI Credit: UPI/Alamy Live News

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President Donald Trump blasted a reporter who interrupted his response to a question during his Tuesday press conference.

The reporter sought to highlight an alleged contradiction between Trump and Vice President JD Vance, interrupting the president’s answer.

“Listen to me for a second,” Trump fired back. “Stop interrupting.”

“They served years in jail and if you look at the American public, the American public is tired of it. Take a look at the election. Just look at the numbers on the election,” he continued. “We won this election in a landslide, because the American public is tired of people like you that are just one-sided, horrible people, in terms of crime.”

Trump also condemned the lack of enforcement against murderers.

“Murderers get no time. You take a look at some of these DAs, they go after political opponents, but they don’t go after people that shoot people in the street,” Trump said.

The exchange occurred after Trump announced on Tuesday a $500 billion investment into building infrastructure for artificial intelligence efforts during his second administration that could create 100,000 U.S. jobs.

The project, called Stargate, includes OpenAI, Softbank and Oracle. Trump called Stargate the “greatest AI infrastructure project by far in history.”

“It will ensure the future of technology. What we want to do, we want to keep it in this country—China’s a competitor, others are a competitor,” Trump stated.

The official announcement described the strategic importance of the project.

“The Stargate Project is a new company which intends to invest $500 billion over the next four years building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States. We will begin deploying $100 billion immediately,” OpenAI wrote in a statement posted on X.

“This infrastructure will secure American leadership in AI, create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefit for the entire world. This project will not only support the re-industrialization of the United States but also provide a strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies,” it added.

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