The reporter barely got her question out.
She identified herself as being from MS NOW — the network formerly known as MSNBC, if you haven't kept up with the
witness-protection rebrand — and Trump just looked at her.
"MS NOW? That's a failing network. Why would you want to work for them?"
Then the twist of the knife: "They took the name NBC because they were embarrassed by it. Go ahead, go."
Go ahead, go. Like a teacher waving through a kid who just asked if the homework counts.
That was the opening act of Tuesday's NATO summit press conference, and it only got better from there. For everybody
who spent the last month insisting Trump has "lost a step" — roll the tape. The man strung together more viral
moments in one presser than most politicians manage in a career.
Asked about his relationship with the regime that has openly plotted to kill him, Trump didn't reach for the diplomatic
phrasebook. "I'm their #1 target... because they're scum."
Then somebody teed up communism, and Trump delivered a eulogy for every socialist experiment in history: "Once you go communist, you don't go back. You die in squalor. You die a horrible death. You die in squalor. And it gets very evil and very nasty."
Somewhere a Democratic Socialists of America chapter meeting just got very quiet.
Just to salt the wound, Trump noted he's currently #1 on TikTok. The 80-year-old president is out-performing every
influencer on the Zoomers favorite app while fighting communists on it. The party that keeps telling us they've got
the youth vote locked up might want to check the scoreboard.
He even found time to threaten to cut off all trade with Spain over their NATO spending freeloading. One press
conference. World leaders in the room. And Trump treated it like an open-mic night where he was the only comic who
showed up with material.
The press corps keeps showing up hoping to catch him slipping.
Instead they keep ending up in the clip package.