Donald Trump lost his temper with a reporter on Tuesday after she pressed him on why Iran is continuing to fight. In barely-concealed anger, he ripped her organization as “fake” and insisted Iran “desperately” wants to make a deal. But of course, that only revealed the line of questioning to be absolutely correct: Iran is not desperate, and he really does not know how to force Iran’s hand or get out of this fiasco. Meanwhile, Politico reports that GOP anxiety is growing about how the Iran war will hurt the …

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    You know, I read “Donald Trump lost his temper with a reporter” and my immediate thought was “It must’ve been a female reporter”. Three words later, yep! [I’m mostly only surprised that he didn’t insult her as well.]

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      I wonder if some of the major news organizations purposefully send a woman reporter to these, knowing it really upsets him.

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        The men are probably too scared of him! Many women are, sadly, used to abuse from men so it may not be much of a change for them :/ I doubt the organisation would explicitly choose to wind him up given his tendency to sue, but the female reporters may take some pleasure in seeing him show how weak and feable he really is!

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    Yeah he’ll do what any violent child rapist would do, go for the biggest tool to beat them into submission or death. He is itching to drop a nuke and avoid the midterms because of some “emergency”