Donald Trump Jr. dismissed an MSNBC reporter during a confrontational live exchange at the Republican National Convention on Monday.
Trump Jr. told MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff to “get out of here” after being asked about his father’s immigration policies.
Donald Trump Jr. and his brother Eric Trump were interviewed by MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff at the RNC in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the previous president officially became the Republican Party’s presidential candidate two days after surviving an assassination attempt.
Trump Jr. then rejected Soboroff’s assertion that Trump was “a regressive phenomenon,” instead attributing “divisiveness” to the media.
“They lied about Russia, Russia collusion, they said he was a traitor, they went after him in every which way possible,” Trump Jr. said. “If the media actually starts being an honest broker, talking about the things that he did, the prosperity he brought, the peace deals that he signed around the world rather than the disaster that we’re living right now, I think you’d do everyone in the country a big favor.”
“It’s MSNBC, so I expect nothing less from you clowns, even today,” Trump Jr. fired back, adopting the nickname often invoked by his father for the left-leaning network.
“Even 48 hours later, you couldn’t wait, you couldn’t wait with your lies and with your nonsense, so just get out of here,” he continued, waving away the reporter while turning his attention back to the convention stage.
Trump Jr. posted the photo that was taken of his father this past Saturday immediately following the assassination attempt. In the photo, you can see the former president’s fist in the air while Secret Service haul him off stage to safety.
“He’ll never stop fighting to Save America,” Trump Jr. wrote alongside the photo.