Jim Acosta exposes president not responding to press questions shouted over waiting helicopter

Brett T. | 7:10 PM on August 05, 2017

“Why won’t you talk to the press?” We’re thinking the question, shouted across a field as the president was approaching Marine One to depart for Bedminster, N.J., wasn’t meant rhetorically, but it sort of answers itself, doesn’t it?

CNN’s Jim Acosta, who decided earlier in the week it was his role to turn a press briefing into a debate over whether the Emma Lazarus poem added to the Statue of Liberty was legally binding immigration policy, shared video of the president giving the standard wave as he approached his waiting helicopter.

Trump ignores shouted questions on Mueller and grand jury as he departs for Bedminster pic.twitter.com/jB7mcbjmfu

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 4, 2017

I shout questions like this at all sorts of people that are 30 feet away from me and amazingly enough none of them come back to talk to me. https://t.co/nxWoYlu9rw

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) August 5, 2017

https://twitter.com/seanagnew/status/893957253480493057

Reporter Records Himself Shouting at Helicopter

— Razor (@hale_razor) August 5, 2017

Unhinged codependent stalker @Acosta doesn't realize how loud Marine One actually is. https://t.co/Vkj7cTu4pN

— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) August 5, 2017

Why would he shout an answer from a shouted question that nobody can hear? You're there to take pictures of his departure not for Q's/A's https://t.co/JK9nyMpjCv

— Dina ???? (@Dina75c2) August 5, 2017

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