Trump aide Steven Cheung tears into HuffPost – Business News
White House communications director Steven Cheung tore into a reporter from HuffPost who requested why transcripts for many of the president’s public remarks will not be accessible on the White House web site.
“You must be truly f–king stupid if you think we’re not transparent,” Cheung bellowed at White House reporter S.V. Date. “The president regularly does multiple press engagements per day and they are streamed live on multiple platforms.”
Cheung then mocked Date’s left-leaning employer, including: “We’ve even granted low-level outlets like HuffPo [sic] additional access to events, because we’re so transparent. For anyone to think otherwise proves they are suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Stop beclowning yourself.”
White House communications director Steven Cheung ripped a HuffPost reporter over his claims that the White House is protecting the president’s remarks secret. AP
The blowback got here after Date penned a piece Thursday claiming that the White House is protecting the “majority of Trump’s remarks secret.”
The story stated that President Trump made remarks in 146 appearances in his first 100 days in workplace, however solely 29 of these transcripts, or 20%, have been printed.
“Trump aides would not explain their decision to withhold 80% of the transcripts that have been prepared,” Date wrote. “White House communications director Steven Cheung, however, did insult HuffPost for asking the question.”
Date famous that videos of virtually all of Trump’s remarks within the aforementioned public settings can be found elsewhere online, however these remarks are sometimes not simply searchable — which presumably precipitated Cheung’s fiery response.
The White House flack doesn’t maintain back on journalists. In April, he slammed Daily Beast boss Joanna Coles, who famous Trump’s weight loss during an look on CNN.
S.V. Date’s piece in HuffPost. HuffPost
Commenting on the president’s look at Pope Francis’ funeral, Coles stated: “Lots of suspicion because he’s lost a lot of weight. Who knows how he’s lost weight? We know that Robert Kennedy Jr., his health minister, doesn’t approve of people taking Ozempic because he thinks it shows a lack of moral power.”
Cheung punched back with an expletive-ridden personal assault.
“CNN had this blithering idiot on @InsidePolitics from The Daily Beast named @JoannaColes making unsubstantiated claims about President Trump’s health,” he wrote. “Joanna is a piece of s–t, clearly suffering from a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome rotting her pea-sized brain.”
