Biden Loses It On Reporter For Doing Her Job
Biden is once again showing that ugly temper of his. This time he did not go as far as to call anyone a "lying dog-face pony soldier" but he was short with CNN's Kaitlan Collins, which is a surprise since CNN usually kisses up to Biden. Collins asked Biden about Putin after his meeting with the Russian President.
"Why are you so confident he'll change his behavior Mr. President?" CNN's Kaitlan Collins shouted at Biden as he was walking away from The Press.
"I'm not confident he'll change his behavior, when the hell, what the hell do you do all day? Biden then stuck up a finger and continued, "When did I say I was confident? What I said, What I said was, Let's get it straight. I said what will change their behavior is if the rest of the world reacts to them and diminishes their standing in the world. I'm not confident of anything. I'm just stating a fact."
"But given his past behavior has not changed, and in that press conference after sitting down with you for several hours, he denied any involvement in cyberattacks, he downplayed human rights abuses, he even refused to say [Russian dissident] Alexei Navalny's name. So, how does that account to a constructive meeting?" Collins asked.
"If you don't understand that, you're in the wrong business," Biden said, done with The Press.
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Biden says he's "not confident" Putin and the Kremlin will change their behavior, but "what will change their behavior is that the rest of the world reacts to them and it diminishes their standing in their world. I'm not confident of anything." https://t.co/PLngnYnuuB pic.twitter.com/gzqWW0oU3H
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"Moments later, before boarding Air Force One, Biden apologized for losing his temper at Collins.
"I apologize for having been short," Biden said, before later telling reporters gathered outside the plane, "You never ask positive questions."
People took to Twitter to comment on the president's temper.
"If you’re the most powerful person in the world and you can’t field questions from the media without losing your temper, maybe you’re in the wrong business," New York Magazine's Olivia Nuzzi commented.
"Biden flips out almost every time he is asked an even vaguely pointed question — true during the campaign and true as president," Justice Department reporter for the Washington Examiner Jerry Dunleavy pointed out.
That's pretty lucid for the president, he must be having a good day. But still, it is the job of The Press to ask questions and sometimes even unscripted hard ones. It seems Biden has become accustomed to The Press going easy on him. But you know this a vast improvement to his usual scripted questions, and answers.