Trump AGAIN mocks reporter Ali Velshi and says it was a ‘beautiful sight’ to see him hit by rubber bullet
DONALD Trump has again mocked reporter Ali Velshi and said it was a "beautiful sight" to see him hit by a rubber bullet.
The president singled out the journalist during his Moon Township, , rally on Tuesday.
"Remember that beautiful sight? The street was a mess. That idiot reporter from CNN got hit with a canister of tear gas. And he went down. 'I've been hit. I've been hit.' He's been hit," the president jeered.
He continued: "Sometimes they grab. They grab one guy. 'I'm a reporter. I'm a reporter.' Get out of here. They threw him aside like he was a little bag of popcorn. Honestly, when you watch the crap that we have all had to take so long. When you see it, it is actually a beautiful sight."
"So, @realDonaldTrump, you call my getting hit by authorities in Minneapolis on 5/30/20 (by a rubber bullet, btw, not a tear gas cannister) a "beautiful thing" called "law and order". What law did I break while covering an entirely peaceful (yes, entirely peaceful) march?"
The reporter also retweeted several critical articles of the president's comments following the Tuesday rally.
Velshi captioned two of the articles he tweeted "Why is a journalist getting shot 'a beautiful thing' to Trump?" and "Trump: Reporters Covering Protests Deserve to be Attacked."
MSNBC previously released a statement regarding Trump's remarks.
"Freedom of the press is a pillar of our democracy... When the president mocks a journalist for the injury he sustained while putting himself in harm’s way to inform the public, he endangers thousands of other journalists and undermines our freedoms," it read.