Trump lashes out at NBC reporter asking about Qatar jet during Oval Office meeting with South African president: Jerk Idiot

President Trump berated NBC News reporter Peter Alexander – calling him an “idiot” and a “jerk” – on Wednesday for asking about the luxurious jet the Pentagon accepted from Qatar during an Oval Office meeting with his South African counterpart. “Why are you talking about that? What are you asking that for? You know, you oughta get out of here,” Trump fumed as the journalist attempted to ask the president about the $400 million “palace in the sky” aircraft intended to serve as a temporary replacement for the aging Air Force One fleet. “What does this have to do with the Qatar jet?” Trump continued.“They’re giving the United States Air Force a jet.

Okay? And it’s a great thing.”Trump was asked the question by Alexander seconds after the president played an inflammatory five-minute video for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa detailing purported evidence of crimes against white South African farmers.The president accused the journalist and his network of trying to dodge covering the controversial subject matter. “We’re talking about a lot of other things.

Is NBC trying to get off the subject of what you just saw?” Trump asked rhetorically. “You are a real – you know, you’re a terrible person,” the president raged, before questioning Alexander’s intelligence.  “Number one, you don’t have what it takes to be a reporter.You’re not smart enough,” Trump charged. “You ought to go back to your studio at NBC,” the president suggested, “because, [Comcast Chairman] Brian Roberts and the people that run that place, they ought to be investigated.

They are so terrible the way they run that network.” Trump refused to allow Alexander to ask a different question, on his claims of white South African “genocide,” calling the reporter “a disgrace.” “His name is Peter something.He’s a terrible reporter,” the president continued to vent as other journalists shouted to get their own questions in....