Good question. So I googled “what do you say to Americans...” for Obama and Bush as to compare to Trump’s abuse of NBC reporter. Here is what I found 1/
In interview with Miami TV station in 2012 Obama offered long answer on a coming “fiscal cliff” and shared empathy with those “worried...” thehill.com/policy/finance…
Here is Bush in 2006 answering a hypothetical he said he didn’t want to answer about “frustrated” Americans. He worked through some diplomacy and thanked some world leaders 3/ nytimes.com/2006/07/07/wor…
Here is Bush 8 weeks after September 11 on “frustrated” and “impatient” Americans. He offers some American exceptionalism (page 1355) 4/ books.google.com/books/about/Pu…
And finally Trump in 2016 debate interrupting Lester Holt as Holt tries to get him to talk to Americans about Trump’s racist pursuit and lies about Obama’s birth certificate /end
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