#Trumps cult animosity shows up series#

'The media did not bring this up,' she said. She batted away Lauer's comparison to Trump's discredited birther claims.įinally, it was Guthrie's turn to become frustrated. Conway said the truth of the claims would emerge during a congressional investigation, and wouldn't comment on conversations Trump had with his attorney general and other officials. On the 'Today' show, Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie tried three times to ask Conway why Trump hasn't offered proof of his claim that he was the victim of an Obama-ordered wiretap. Things played differently on the other side of the political spectrum, where the conservative web site Newsbusters criticized Cuomo for 'whining' in their interview and Conway was praised for being spirited in fighting back. A petition on the liberal Daily Kos website, with more than 150,000 signatures on Monday, called on the media to stop interviewing her. At least one program, MSNBC's 'Morning Joe,' has said it would no longer have Conway on, a promise host Mika Brzezinski repeated on Monday. In media circles, New York University professor Jay Rosen ignited a debate about whether the journalistic rationale for interviewing her had evaporated. She's been the subject of newspaper articles about whether sexism is involved in criticism of her work. Her comment last month about a nonexistent 'Bowling Green' massacre made her a subject of derision. Like Spicer, Conway has already been spoofed on 'Saturday Night Live,' when Kate McKinnon portrayed her in a 'Fatal Attraction'-type relationship with CNN's Jake Tapper. She created a social media moment by saying she was 'not Inspector Gadget' during a discussion of surveillance methods. When Cuomo suggested she was creating animosity, Conway noted that she had 24-hour Secret Service protection. Her interviews were a master class in misdirection, seasoned with agitation about the press' treatment of the administration, an attitude echoed by the president in his Monday tweet. Retorted Conway: 'You take it way too personally.' I am not someone who doesn't want President Trump to be president so I'm asking tough questions.' 'I did not just tell anybody that they're just a slogan.

'You just told millions of Americans who don't have health care that they're just a slogan,' she said. When Cuomo said, 'C'mon, that's just a slogan,' Conway leapt at him. Moving on to a discussion about health care and why some people are seeing increases in their insurance costs, Conway said that 'the biggest reason of all is the disaster of Obamacare and you know it.'

When she answered no, Cuomo said, 'then why put the suggestion out there?' He asked, 'Do you think I'm asking the question because I don't want Trump to be president?' 'That's unfair, and it's hurtful because you are feeding people's animosity.' 'My question to you, my question on his baseless claim about wiretapping is not about not wanting him to be president,' he said. The president tweeted without evidence more than a week ago that his predecessor, Barack Obama, had tapped his phone line at Trump Tower.

Her appearances followed a weekend interview with The Record newspaper in New Jersey in which Conway had suggested that there were other ways to conduct surveillance that didn't include tapping phones.

#Trumps cult animosity shows up series#

NEW YORK (AP) - President Donald Trump tweeted a critique of the media for being 'rude to my very hard-working representatives' on Monday, only minutes after counselor Kellyanne Conway completed a series of interviews on television morning shows.Ĭonway's interviews, including one that appeared to signal a thaw in the administration's relationship with CNN, were at times combative, exasperating and fascinating - an illustration of how the administration and reporters are often talking past each other and how she's become something of a cult figure.Ĭonway spoke on NBC's 'Today' show and ABC's 'Good Morning America.' Her longest interview, and the one right before Trump's tweet, was with Chris Cuomo on CNN's 'New Day.' Trump has been particularly critical of CNN during his presidency, and for several weeks the administration had been declining to offer its representatives for interviews on the network.