has any journalist ever asked Trump a follow up question?

"HOW would the climate change back?" "WHEN would it change back?" "Are you pulling that out of your fat ass?" something along those lines.

It really sucks that we live in a country where “Corrupt Xenophobic Fraud Babbles Nonsense” has to get translated into all-too-normal-sounding headlines like “Weekday Trumpdate” or even worse “President Trump Stated...”

@1 - Why even ask? He doesn’t have an answer, doesn’t care, will say some stupid shit, change the subject, end the interview. I wish journalists would stop covering him altogether. Cover actual policy decisions by the administration. Ignore Trump.

@2: i've seen a few instances when reporters teamed up to focus on one topic - and it worked. he told the truth. when they move to a different topic when he's obviously lied/ducked/whatabouted is useless, and at that point, why are they bothering?

So he tells the truth. What good does it do? He admitted Blasey Ford was credible (truth: she was) one day, the next attacks her, then mocks her, never threatened nor was ever going to pull Kavanaugh’s nomination.

And even if he tells the truth when pressed, he is in aggregate an egregious liar. An occasional truth doesn’t change that. The correct way to approach a pathological liar is to treat everything they say as unreliable and subject to verification and unworthy to print until validated in some way. Shouldn’t matter that he is president.

@4:

The big problem is that he's completely incapable of telling the difference between truths and lies: as Cillizza notes, anything that falls out of his cake-hole is just whatever his brain comes up with at the moment, and its veracity and/or relevance only applies during the few minutes in which his short-term memory retains it. Once it's dumped (and apparently NOTHING he says ever goes into long-term, declarative memory) it's gone, as if it never was - despite it having been externally recorded for later reference - and his brain-buffer is conveniently emptied of content and ready to transmit the next bit of spontaneous utterance out into the world completely free of any history, context, or relation to anything he may have said previously. Basically, his brain appears to be analogous to a computer with a small amount of RAM, but literally no ROM.

So far as he's concerned, it doesn't matter what he said yesterday, or last month or last year, or even earlier the same day - that's all past history and therefore irrelevant - the only thing that counts and that he expects anyone to pay attention to is what he says RIGHT NOW, THIS INSTANT, and that of course could be absolutely anything: truth, lie, completely made up bullshit, incomprehensible gibberish, whatever.

@5 - I think we’re saying the same thing. :)

Which is why I want the news media to stop covering him like a typical president and like what he is: a pathological liar.

On a related note, I can’t believe how readily republican voters look past his lying. Not to say democrats don’t lie, but they don’t lie like this. If a job applicant shifted stories as badly as Trump did, I would never hire them, no matter how qualified they were in every other respect. The dems are compromised by money, but the GOP is entirely bankrupt at this point. They don’t even pretend to represent all americans anymore.

Sigh.