President Trump gave his first speech since returning from an historic 12-day trip to Asia, touting the improved relations and better standing in the world that his administration has helped usher in.
He spoke of diplomatic accomplishments and reaffirming old alliances, of dealing with the North Korean threat, of battling the Islamic State, and negotiating trade based on ‘fairness and reciprocity.’
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“America is back,” he proclaimed. “And the future has never looked brighter.”
Despite those important facets of the speech, the media found something entirely different to latch onto – the fact that President Trump became thirsty during his speech.
Trump was bummed that other news upstaged his Asia trip, and then allowed himself to be overshadowed by a bottle of Fiji water. https://t.co/4bfbQdU4JD
— Tim Rostan. (@mrtgr) November 15, 2017
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It’s not as if there was a big water cover-up either. There is no Thristgate. The actual transcript from the White House website indicates that yes, the President of the United States did actually take a few sips of water. For shame!
Here is a portion of the transcript:
Oh, they don’t have water? That’s okay. What? That’s okay.
(Drinks water.)
Somebody alert the press. No wait, they’re already on it. Even better, they tried to make a scandal out of it, feigning outrage that Trump would discuss trade deficits while drinking Fiji water.
Trump drinks FIJI Water while decrying trade deficits. pic.twitter.com/hjO34kKGmx
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) November 15, 2017
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Donald Trump drinking Fiji Water. #AmericanFirst pic.twitter.com/9prtCN7UTo
— Michael Abromowitz (@FootballExpert) November 15, 2017
The bottle of #water Trump drank at his [press] conference today appears to be Fiji Water, imported 7,800 miles from Fiji to DC. Because American water isn’t good enough, I guess. pic.twitter.com/Euah3uggO4
— Peter Gleick (@PeterGleick) November 15, 2017
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Indeed, they’ll try to generate controversy out of anything.
Former Fox News host Eric Bolling chimed in and squashed the dreams of liberals who thought they made a point about the President’s hypocrisy. Bolling revealed the company that provides Fiji Water is headquartered in Los Angeles.
Before you go there…. Fiji Water is sourced in Fiji but the company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California. They pay US taxes. And the imports are GOOD for our vast global trade imbalances.
— Eric Bolling (@ericbolling) November 15, 2017
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Others pointed out that since the water comes from Fiji and is distributed in California, that Trump had made a brilliant point about trade.
So, in a mercantilist speech attacking the trade deficit, Trump #actually showed how imports are good & the trade deficit can be a good thing! Great job, Trump!
— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) November 15, 2017
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According to their company website, “FIJI Water is now the number one imported bottled water in the United States.”
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It was a good try libs. Sorry to pour a nice bottle of cold Fiji Water on your outrage.
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Journalism at it’s worst. Whoever wrote these articles on President Trump need s to go back to kindergarten and learn the basics of life. People do drink water, it’s a necessity. You may need to rethink your choice of professions cause you report such stupid articles. Get a real job.
Our AGITPROP MEDIA is so incredibly stupid and ignorant and filled with hate that they lost all editorial judgment.
Isn’t Fuji water the one that had been scammed by the Pelosi Family into getting an exclusive marketing deal from the Fiji Government???
Figi water is the best bottled water there is. All the others are so lacking in the basic minerals they 1) do more harm than good, and 2) leave my mouth and throat feeling dry. Figi water doesn’t do that.
They would try to make an international incident of his sneezes!
Stump water. Let them drink stump water.
Let the liberals drink elephant urine. As I always say, if Trump were to let out a good fart, the slimeball liberals would be outraged, saying he was way out of tune. That’s how stupid they are.
Fiji is good water, but Panna from Italy is better.
Trump promised “a major statement” on North Korea and trade when he returned to Washington following his 12-day, five-nation trip to Asia
What was the high point of his press conference? It wasn’t any major statement on trade or North Korea. Drinking water was the high point of the otherwise boring event. Pretty sad.
Why are you so afraid to call them what they are? Fascists behave this way not liberals. Would it kill you to call them fascists?
I remember when Marco Rubio took a drink of water during a speech. The left went crazy. A few days later John Kerry was giving a speech and he took a drink of water. Not a peep out of the press.
Everything President Trump does, makes the MSM go into manic, psychotic episode. I love Fiji water it’s the only bottled water I drink. They hate for no logical reason and the more they whine, snivel, groan, caterwaul and shriek, the lower their ratings go down, the more their credibility gets flushed down a toilet. Don’t forget to put the seat down.
Why would anybody be surprised by shoddy/piss poor reporting from the lame stream media?
Radar, you just nailed it!!!
You have to remember, these liberals are the children of the doped up hippies with no morals, and the brain dead idiots that flocked to california that never attended college. They were elected by citizens of very low IQs.
Oh my god! He drank water!? IMPEACH HIM NOW!!! SMH
‘t these people have anything better to report than him drinking water? Give me a break America and get off your ass and report something that people want to read!
If the walking dead dim lib zombies could see how ignorant they truly are. They are delusional!! Our president goes to China to the rolled out red carpet unlike Obama who wasn’t greeted and had to leave the plane through the back door. Negotiating major relationships in a crazy world and the zombies want to talk about water….Houston wiped out by a hurricane and what do they talk about Melania’s shoes….etc….these people are seriously unhinged!
I’m sorry, but I read this article THREE times and I Still don’t understand the tone, tenor, or point of it. Trump makes giant 747 trailblazing trip around the world, comes home to talk about it, gets thirsty and pulls out a bottle of IMPORTED water purchased from a company here in the United States that sourced the water in some far off British colonized, rain forest overgrown, archipelago and NOW we have all of these excuses being made for it under the banner of “If it’s good for Trump it’s good for ‘Merica” Gimme a BREAK folks. ANY, and I DO mean ANY import into THIS country from abroad is, BY DEFINITION’ a strain on our balance of payments and CANNOT, again by definition, HELP our balance of payments in that area. I could care LESS about the issue of the water OR where he got it from. But to take this example and TRY to make political hay out if it is ignorant. You CANNOT IMPORT anything into this country that is source thru or from another country and call it to our benefit on the Balance of Payments book. We MAY have a surplus with Fiji on trade (I am sure Trump will be sending them 8-10 unneeded F-16 fighters and a C-130J or two as support vehicles in their ongoing war against the Greater Swamp Mole that is invading their tree roots but that will mean a lot of water coming our way to offset that purchase.
It is NOT in our favor to import this water but THAT is the underlying premise of this politically exploitive article.
Darrow…for the Prosecution
Hey Commies, who gives a Rats Azz.
They don’t have room It’s too full.
To the liberal press: If you have room in your collective ass, please shove it there!
It is also hugely amusing to me to have learned that a recent test of several US-based bottled water company’s products failed to reach acceptable standards in “purity and taste” tests run by an independent testing lab. The number one bottled water they tested? That’s right, Fiji Water. All the rest were poor to just barely drinkable. Trump knows his water.
They will seize on anything, no matter how nonsensical.
OMG, take President out to the woodshed! It never ceases to amaze me how ridiculous and insipid the Libs are. Can’t you just picture it? Little kids on the playground and one of them takes a sip of water….hurry run to the principal’s office and report it. Geez!!!
Real journalists (if there were such a thing): “Trump’s Asia trip brings benefits to the United States.”
The MSM “journalists”: “Trump over feeds koi during Asia trip.” Anyone notice the difference in spin?
Facts never bother Democrats. Wait till they find out Arizona Tea is based in NY.
Never! They have been such fools from the day the Trumps walked down the escalator and they just dig in deeper….their thickness and idiocy is appalling
Good Lord. Last week the news was about feeding fish in Japan. Now drinking water. When will Trumps atrocities end?
So the liberal media doesn’t care about improved Asian relations but wants to condemn a POTUS drinking imported water? This is ridiculous! Imported water that is making money for USA is a good thing. The world has gone nuts.
Morons have more brains than Liberals.
Geez, shocking to hear the POTUS gets thirsty too! Lol. Liberals are such morons.
Journalism at it’s worst. Whoever wrote these articles on President Trump need s to go back to kindergarten and learn the basics of life. People do drink water, it’s a necessity. You may need to rethink your choice of professions cause you report such stupid articles. Get a real job.
Our AGITPROP MEDIA is so incredibly stupid and ignorant and filled with hate that they lost all editorial judgment.
Isn’t Fuji water the one that had been scammed by the Pelosi Family into getting an exclusive marketing deal from the Fiji Government???
Figi water is the best bottled water there is. All the others are so lacking in the basic minerals they 1) do more harm than good, and 2) leave my mouth and throat feeling dry. Figi water doesn’t do that.
Let the liberals drink elephant urine. As I always say, if Trump were to let out a good fart, the slimeball liberals would be outraged, saying he was way out of tune. That’s how stupid they are.
Stump water. Let them drink stump water.
They would try to make an international incident of his sneezes!
Fiji is good water, but Panna from Italy is better.
Trump promised “a major statement” on North Korea and trade when he returned to Washington following his 12-day, five-nation trip to Asia
What was the high point of his press conference? It wasn’t any major statement on trade or North Korea. Drinking water was the high point of the otherwise boring event. Pretty sad.
Why are you so afraid to call them what they are? Fascists behave this way not liberals. Would it kill you to call them fascists?
I remember when Marco Rubio took a drink of water during a speech. The left went crazy. A few days later John Kerry was giving a speech and he took a drink of water. Not a peep out of the press.
Everything President Trump does, makes the MSM go into manic, psychotic episode. I love Fiji water it’s the only bottled water I drink. They hate for no logical reason and the more they whine, snivel, groan, caterwaul and shriek, the lower their ratings go down, the more their credibility gets flushed down a toilet. Don’t forget to put the seat down.
Why would anybody be surprised by shoddy/piss poor reporting from the lame stream media?
You have to remember, these liberals are the children of the doped up hippies with no morals, and the brain dead idiots that flocked to california that never attended college. They were elected by citizens of very low IQs.
Radar, you just nailed it!!!
Oh my god! He drank water!? IMPEACH HIM NOW!!! SMH
‘t these people have anything better to report than him drinking water? Give me a break America and get off your ass and report something that people want to read!
If the walking dead dim lib zombies could see how ignorant they truly are. They are delusional!! Our president goes to China to the rolled out red carpet unlike Obama who wasn’t greeted and had to leave the plane through the back door. Negotiating major relationships in a crazy world and the zombies want to talk about water….Houston wiped out by a hurricane and what do they talk about Melania’s shoes….etc….these people are seriously unhinged!
I’m sorry, but I read this article THREE times and I Still don’t understand the tone, tenor, or point of it. Trump makes giant 747 trailblazing trip around the world, comes home to talk about it, gets thirsty and pulls out a bottle of IMPORTED water purchased from a company here in the United States that sourced the water in some far off British colonized, rain forest overgrown, archipelago and NOW we have all of these excuses being made for it under the banner of “If it’s good for Trump it’s good for ‘Merica” Gimme a BREAK folks. ANY, and I DO mean ANY import into THIS country from abroad is, BY DEFINITION’ a strain on our balance of payments and CANNOT, again by definition, HELP our balance of payments in that area. I could care LESS about the issue of the water OR where he got it from. But to take this example and TRY to make political hay out if it is ignorant. You CANNOT IMPORT anything into this country that is source thru or from another country and call it to our benefit on the Balance of Payments book. We MAY have a surplus with Fiji on trade (I am sure Trump will be sending them 8-10 unneeded F-16 fighters and a C-130J or two as support vehicles in their ongoing war against the Greater Swamp Mole that is invading their tree roots but that will mean a lot of water coming our way to offset that purchase.
It is NOT in our favor to import this water but THAT is the underlying premise of this politically exploitive article.
Darrow…for the Prosecution
Hey Commies, who gives a Rats Azz.
To the liberal press: If you have room in your collective ass, please shove it there!
They don’t have room It’s too full.