‘Cool’: Did CNN Take Donald Trump Out of Context on Occupy Wall St.?
- Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:02am by
Billy Hallowell
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Donald Trump has no shortage of opinions on practically every issue imaginable.
From domestic debacles to international affairs — even happenings in celebrity and entertainment news — the well-known business mogul is always ready and willing to let people know his perspective on the issues of the day.
So, naturally, when he appeared on CNN’s “Piers Morgan Tonight” on Thursday, Trump weighed in on the issue that everyone’s talking about — the Occupy Wall Street movement. Numerous outlets are reporting that, in speaking about the protests, Trump said, “I sort of think it’s cool. There’s something I like about it.”
One headline reads, “Trump: Occupy Wall Street Is ‘Sort of Cool’ and ‘There’s Something I Like About it.’” Even CNN (yes, the network that actually aired the interview), teases the clip with this:
…Trump also reveals his surprising take on the Occupy Wall Street movement. “I sort of think it’s cool,” he says. “There’s something I like about it.”
But a transcript from the show provides a different reality about his comments. While he called some of the protesters “very serious people” and said that the movement is “interesting,“ Trump may not have been speaking about the protests when he made the ”cool“ and ”something I like about it” comments. Here’s a portion of the show’s transcript:
TRUMP: Somebody called me before from CNN, actually, and they want me to do — I have a big building right there, 40 Wall Street. It’s actually the tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and unfortunately because it used to be the World Trade Center, but it’s now the tallest building in downtown, and it was very interesting because they want me to do an interview with representatives from the group “Occupy Wall Street.”
MORGAN: And how do you feel about that?
TRUMP: I sort of think it’s cool. I mean there’s something I like about it. Like I said, might do it.
It seems Trump was responding to the prospects of doing an interview down at Wall Street — not about the movement. Does that mean even CNN got it wrong? It would seem so.
That said, he does seem to see something redeeming in the ongoing protests against corporate greed, but he has worries about how the Occupiers are impacting businesses. “They’ve been there a long time, and perhaps they shouldn’t be allowed to stay that long,” he says. “A lot of decisions have to be made, because it’s getting bigger and bigger and businesses are very much being affected.”
And as he has numerous times before, Trump said that be believes the Occupiers may be misdirecting their anger. “I personally think Wall Street isn’t their target,” he explained. “I think their target is the White House and certainly Washington.”
Morgan also delved into Michael Moore‘s assessment of the nation’s problems as well as the filmmaker‘s assertion that Wall Street is solely responsible for the nation’s financial crisis. Trump disagreed with this assessment, saying:
“A lot has to do with politics, a lot has to do with the president, a lot has to do with bad decisions that have been made. We’ll see what happens but it’s a mess.”
Watch these comments, below:
Watch Michael Moore deny to Morgan the fact that he’s part of the “1 percent”:
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Comments (67)
ProudTeaPartyMember
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:55amWhat a bunch of a-holes at CNN and that includes that do nothing, Piers Morgan.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 1:04pmHonest mistake? … NO creative editiing and taking someone out of context. Nothing new for the Lamestream media!
TEA!
Report Post »calijohn
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 5:10pmcnn selectively quotes trump and the blaze calls this ONE, SINGLE example headline material.
Report Post »beck, o’reilly, limbaugh, et al have been doing it for years.
WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE?
TWO BITS
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:33amCNN clearly distorted Trump’s comments, but rather than a Woodstock Festival, OWS should have been required to obtain a permit with a date and time to protest, and then leave. It would be “cool” for Trump to pony up for damages however.
Report Post »Go Glenn
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 3:35pmAre you kidding?!?!?!?!?
“It would be “cool” for Trump to pony up for damages however.”
NO, THE OWS THUG ORGANIZERS AND LABOR UNIONS SHOULD PAY FOR THEIR OWN MESS.
That is part of the problem now, too many people are not responsible for their own actions.
Report Post »Stopit
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:21amCan’t say for sure on this particular quote, but I happened to watch this interview and found Trump soft on his comments/criticisms on both the OWS demonstrations and the current administration. It seems he may have been toning his comments to the audience. The negative comments were extremely soft and avoided the heart, organization, and mercenary nature behind the rabble that’s been roused, and the adminstration’s involvement. Not knowing him that well, maybe it is as one poster stated his gracious nature. He does appear to play both sides of the fence, even with his political contributions.
But he did hold his ground on the tenuous nature of Obama’s latest posted birth certificate…but he wished Perry hadn’t disclosed that.
I get DirectTV and the news mix channel lets you see Fox Business…Carl Rove was on at that time so I turned the selector the the trump interview on CNN. It was an informative interview.
TEA
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:29amWould CNN do that? Of course they would. It’s their name. It’s how they got to where they are. It’s who they are. “Communist New Network” isn’t just a name.
Report Post »nobull14
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:16amwho watches CNN?
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 2:36pmReal Americans
Report Post »neocon1
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 4:03pmlike hanoi jane?
Report Post »FAKE band aid kerry?
FAKE PH murtha?
commies, fakes, cowards….yup “real” americans” all right
Red Max
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 4:57pmNEOCON, you’re my hero.
Report Post »TriforcePlayer
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:44pmTraitors?
Report Post »flik221
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:04am‘that’s not Blood,
Report Post »that‘s Bolognese’
did gb say that or trump?
BOstinks
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:01amIt‘s a shame that the public doesn’t have a buzzer handy when Mr. Morgan does his nightly imitation of a thoughtful journalist. Three X‘s and he’s gone!
Report Post »flik221
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:01amthat’s not Blood,
Report Post »that’s Bolognese!
sts1957
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:41amTrump was talking about himself. He thought, for himself, it would be “cool” to do an interview. Typical journalism, trying to create a story instead of reporting one.
Report Post »TheFederalist
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:33amPeople.. read the article. The story is not about about Trumps opinion. The story is about CNN changing and lying about what Trump said about OWS.
Report Post »MotoMofo
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:29amMy biggest complaint: They claim to speak for me. I never requested that they do so. They don’t, I don’t want them to, and would like them to stop. They are not the “99%”… they are something like the 0.5%. Sooo… speak for themselves and stop trying to play themselves off as some collective voice off all the people everywhere.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 2:37pmIf you are talking about the Tea Party, I completely agree.
Report Post »littlefox
Posted on October 29, 2011 at 2:06pmMore like .00001%
Report Post »UNBOTHERED
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:14amamericansfightingforcommonsense
Why do I sense that you are just HUNGRY for any and everyone to say negative things about those Citizens. If you do not support something, is that not enough. Do you need the entire country to not support it in order to make your views more valid. You remind me of a person I know, who does not like a friend of ours, and he doesn’t want anyone else to like this person either.
WOW!
Report Post »Miami
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 12:16pmSaid those who stood by whilde they took the jews away in the former Weimar Republic better known as Hitler’s Germany.
I guess you are the kind of guy? that stands by while a woman is being raped…
Report Post »wbalzley
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 2:04pm@Miami: So, are you equating the OWS protesters with Nazis? Other than a handful of anti-Semitic comments, I don’t see the comparison.
What I see is a hodge-podge group of angry people who have no common link except that they believe Wall Street is responsible for their ills. My concern is someone lurking behind the scenes, just waiting to harness that anger and turn it to destructive ends (Grab, Smash, and Burn)…
Report Post »country_hick
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:14amWhether you like Trump or not and agree with him or not THAT is NOT the story.
THE story is that CNN, a ‘news’ agency LIED and changed the news to suit their purpose. Nothing more and nothing less.
Report Post »UNBOTHERED
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:16amYet you have no problem when CNN and FOX lie and change stories when it is about a Democrat.
Typical Hypocrisy all in this thread.
Report Post »gwssacredcause
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 10:22amI have hear FOX new commentators correct their errors, not something I can say so much about CNN, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, or ABC of course the AP has alot of responsibility in the errors too.
Report Post »In a Bunker
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 11:51am@unbothered…sounds like you are “bothered”
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Miami
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 12:18pmUNBOTHERED
Name the lie with proof…!
Report Post »Miami
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:11amIf mOOre is not part of the 1% he should give his money away….!
MSM has been a joke for some time, Free Press, please Communist State run media is more truthful that these clowns. I’m all for the Second but there should be a law against lying to the public. What the MSM media with Obama and the Liberal/Progressive agenda is down right Fraud and Grand Theft on a scale never seen before.
Report Post »Tickdog
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:00amdont know. dont care.. trump go the hell away!
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:22amO’Neal the guy wo brought us proof that acorn was involved in crime, has a video out where the media is in collusion with the occupiers. Breitbart has emails from msnbc hosts coaching leaders. Donny Duetche calling for a Kent State moment. No wonder cnn would edit Trump. When i see Shultz pre blaming republicans for the soon to come violence we know it is coming. We have to keep emailing the proof to each others because the major networks are supporting this. Remember the same media cheated Hillary out of the nomination and now evidence in Indiana of voter fraud to get Obama on the ballot is available. Remember the same people prevented the Florida primary which would have allowed Hillary a nomination. Stay strong people, we need to do the job of the media as well as the job of being good citizens.
Report Post »ishka4me
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:48ami wrote O’neal, and i meant to write James O’Keefe. i know someone name O’neal.
Report Post »your sensei
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:57amTrump has no context.
Report Post »Joyzee
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:57amCNN-Commie Numb Nuts
Report Post »momrules
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:53amNever believe ANYTHING that CNN, MSNBC or the rest of the MSM reports. They spin everything to support their Obama agenda.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:07amdo people still watch t.v.?
I forgot what that was like……….
Report Post »Tomr
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:50amTrump’s opinion means very litte to me, CNN’s even less.
Report Post »rfycom
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:48amLook at the top of irrelevance and you find Mr. Trump. I used to really admire him, but his grace is nothing more than stupidly anymore as he tries desperatley to remain relevelant
Report Post »cntrlfrk
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:46am‘
The ‘Commie News Network’ skewed the facts???
Say it isn’t so!
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Report Post »HKS
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:55amThey didn’t get into last place for nothing, they did it the old fashion way, “they earned it”
Report Post »Bill Rowland
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:30amWe haven’t watched CNN in a long time because of this kind of reporting. To many things taken out of context just so they fit the CNN agenda. Definetly leaning to the left and no attempt to show anything except the opions of their talking heads.
OMG
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:26amIs America really that interested in Donald Trump’s opinions? I sure as heck could do without them.
Report Post »UNBOTHERED
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:04amThe Republicans are the only interested party
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:24amWrong.
Report Post »paleoman
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:23amMoore looks & dresses like a street bum. Get a hair cut & take that ball cap off. He’s part of the 99% trash with the other 1% greed, which makes him 100% CRAP. what is his agenda?
Report Post »nelbert
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:36amMoore’s right about one thing. We sure do rue the day anyone ever gave him money to do a film. What a waste of 7 people’s skin.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 9:42amHe fits right in with the OWS Flea Party – He has made a lot of his $$ from savings on soap too!
Report Post »OKLAPatriot
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 4:47pmOff subject, but isn‘t that Moore about the ugliest human you’ve ever seen? He’s trying to stay revelant because he has a severe complex about being sooooo ugly. Can you imagine ANY woman wanting to have s#x with that tub of lard? Gross
Report Post »RichNGadsden
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:17amwell, what do you expect from both CNN and the likes of Piers Morgan?
Report Post »americansfightingforcommonsense
Posted on October 28, 2011 at 8:16amWhy did they cut they interview when Trump was just getting started on what he really thinks about it all. I can not watch CNN, it makes me too frustrated. CNN will not show the truth, only twist it.
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