Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current president of the United States. Before entering politics, he was a businessman and television personality. Trump was born and raised in the New York City borough of Queens, and received a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School. He took charge of his family's real-estate business in 1971, renamed it The Trump Organization, and expanded its operations from Queens and Brooklyn into Manhattan.
The company built or renovated skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, and golf courses. Trump later started various side ventures, mostly by licensing his name. He owned the Miss Universe and Miss USA beauty pageants from 1996 to 2015, and produced and hosted The Apprentice, a reality television show, from 2003 to 2015. Forbes estimates his net worth to be $3.1 billion.
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell Calls Out Media & Own Network Over Donald Trump Presser Coverage & Ignoring Kamala Harris
deadline.comLawrence O’Donnell had The Last Word on Thursday night on MSNBC. The news anchor called out the media, including his network, for covering Donald Trump‘s press conference in full and ignoring Kamala Harris.
O’Donnell took to his late-night show to blast the media for not fact-checking Trump, who held a press conference in his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida, saying, “It was 2016 all over again.” “It would be hard to find a sentence in what Donald Trump said today that did not include at least one lie,” O’Donnell said on his show. “Some of the networks tried to play catchup with fact-checking after Donald Trump finished speaking but, that of course, is way too late and utterly useless.
No network even attempted to check every lie Donald Trump told.” O’Donnell noted that “every network has the capacity, especially with these wide screens we now have at home, to run a live scroll at the side of the screen” to fact-check Trump in real time.
The MSNBC anchor used as an example when Trump said Kamala Harris wasn’t smart enough to run a press conference, the network could’ve noted her academic accomplishments.
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