President Trump held a raucous rally in Tampa, Florida, Tuesday night. Thousands of supporters packed the arena to hear Trump hammer his critics in Congress and also attack the media.
During his speech, Trump stopped to attack one of his favorite targets, the media in the room. The president heckled the press as “fake news” and the audience reacted accordingly.
Here’s the view from the press pen after Trump lobbed his first “fake news” and mocked the media. #trumptampa @TB_Times pic.twitter.com/givQXYM5Vt
— Tony Marrero (@TMarreroTimes) August 1, 2018
One of the favorite targets of the audience was CNN’s Jim Acosta, who tweeted multiple videos of the crowd mocking him and blaming Trump for the vitriol, saying, “I’m very worried that the hostility whipped up by Trump and some in conservative media will result in somebody getting hurt.”
Just a sample of the sad scene we faced at the Trump rally in Tampa. I’m very worried that the hostility whipped up by Trump and some in conservative media will result in somebody getting hurt. We should not treat our fellow Americans this way. The press is not the enemy. pic.twitter.com/IhSRw5Ui3R
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 1, 2018
In response, conservative firebrand Ben Shapiro called Acosta out for his hypocrisy, noting multiple times that conservatives have been violently attacked by liberals while the greater media remained silent.
The reason people are annoyed by this tweet is that we have seen Trump supporters physically attacked at rallies, Congressmen shot, and conservatives run off campus at physical risk, but Acosta and the media that downplayed those stories for years think history began today. https://t.co/N1z96W6Vp3
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 1, 2018
CNN held a full scale gun control rally complete with shaming rituals directed against the NRA and Rubio just a few months ago. They used airtime to let David Hogg slander 2A supporters as callous accessories to murder. But history began today.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 1, 2018
Last month when Hunter Richard was attacked (had his MAGA hat stolen and was called a racial slur by a leftist while sitting peacefully in a Texas restaurant), Acosta said nothing.