Reporter asks Trump about plastic
straws as Iran seizes two vessels
Washington Examiner,
by
Mike Brest
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
7/19/2019 7:30:10 PM
President Trump was asked if he was "in favor of banning plastic straws" by a reporter on Friday afternoon, just a short time after an Iranian provocation in the Strait of Hormuz. "Are you in favor of banning plastic straws?" a reporter asked the president outside the White House. "I do think we have bigger problems than plastic straws. You know, it’s interesting about plastic straws. So you have a little straw, but what about the plates, the wrappers, and everything else that are much bigger and they’re made of the same material? So the straws are interesting, everybody focuses on the straws, there’s a lot of other things
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Highlander 7/19/2019 7:47:58 PM (No. 128551)
Liberals have small minds. They focus on petty things.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Scrubber 7/19/2019 7:56:07 PM (No. 128554)
One of these days, Trump is going to say: “Go away little man. Go away.”
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Delta Dave 7/19/2019 8:15:45 PM (No. 128571)
So, why do we care about Great Britain or its oil tankers? We don't buy oil from Britain. They are big boys. They can solve their own problem with Iran.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Calvinesq 7/19/2019 9:02:30 PM (No. 128590)
"I want to say one word to you. Just one word."
"Are you listening?"
"Plastics."
"There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it? "
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 7/19/2019 9:10:14 PM (No. 128594)
Where does the media get these morons? Screwing with those straits is obviously a serious deal as far as world oil supply goes and this guy is asking about plastic straws? Iran is about to find out that it’s not a good idea to monkey with the buzz saw while it’s busy cutting wood.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Delilah 7/19/2019 11:16:06 PM (No. 128636)
England can send Prince Charles to get their tankers back. He was there recently to visit his friends as I recall.
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Wow. See how young these people are ? Why did we go from paper to plastic back when ? To save the trees.
We had to stash light bulbs. Now we have to stash plastic bags and straws. BTW What are we putting animal waste in once these smart people do away with all plastic? None of mine goes anywhere near the ocean. Yours?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Rinktum 7/20/2019 6:42:11 AM (No. 128724)
Nothing but more virtue signaling and at an especially inappropriate time. These media gnats are like children. Ever talk to a five year old? Their questions, though many times very amusing, come out of the blue. These people beclown themselves and don’t even realize it. Young children are, at least, charming. I marvel at the President’s patience. I would have lost it long ago.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/20/2019 6:48:00 AM (No. 128727)
The whole plastic straw thing is bogus. It’s based on a science project by a 9 year old who stated that the US uses 500 million plastic straws per day. Which means that each person in this country uses roughly 1.6 per day. Does that number include babies? I use about 10 straws per year if that and I’m sure that there are millions like me.
PDT’s straws are sold out but I hope that he makes them available again.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 7/20/2019 6:53:25 AM (No. 128738)
If plastics are a problem, then ban plastic surgery. The liberals will go nuts!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 7/20/2019 7:08:06 AM (No. 128750)
Priorities seem ...”off”... NO?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 7/20/2019 7:43:33 AM (No. 128787)
Next question! Ask a stupid question, and you squander your opportunity to talk to the President. Do not reward stupidity.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 7/20/2019 7:47:41 AM (No. 128793)
Tomorrow’s Wapo headline: “President Trump against plastic straw ban. Vows to kill all sea life”
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
little guy 7/20/2019 8:44:24 AM (No. 128842)
Notice how "Puritans" always want total control and then concentrate on minutia and basically worthless, pointless stuff? Reminds me of the Taliban mullah who made the young school girls go BACK into their burning building because many ran for their lives and forgot their head scarfs! I forget how many young lives that cost.
Leave it to a dummy millennial to think she can single-handedly save the world with a worthless gesture.
When we announce that the USA dumped 150 million tons LESS of plastics into the oceans, China and India etc translate that as: "Great! Now WE can dump more." In the meantime, 60% of all ocean pollution (by weight) comes from China's fishing industry just cutting their miles long nets loose when they rip apart.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 7/20/2019 8:50:01 AM (No. 128846)
Yep. Those plastic straws. That's really thinking at a high level at a presidential news conference. But that's how the left operates.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
PhySciTech 7/20/2019 9:18:59 AM (No. 128866)
Ya know, people that use straws really suck! Yuk Yuk
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Franz 7/20/2019 9:31:38 AM (No. 128875)
Don't you that plastic straws are an existential threat to all life on this planet. If we don't ban them immediately, we will all be dead in ten years! As for the Iranian terrorist regime attacking and seizing British oil tankers in international water, they should not have provoked the Iranians by by buying the oil from somebody else. They were forced to resort to piracy and extortion. Every MSM reporter knows that.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
planetgeo 7/20/2019 9:41:03 AM (No. 128893)
Outwitted at every turn, the enemedia desperately grasps for the last straw. Sad. Actually, soggy and sad.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
dbdiva 7/20/2019 10:06:37 AM (No. 128921)
I wasn't aware that reporters from high school newspapers have been added to the press pool.
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If anyone wants to ask you about plastic straws, Just show them this website: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/06/90-of-plastic-polluting-our-oceans-comes-from-just-10-rivers/
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
VietVet68 7/20/2019 10:46:58 AM (No. 128970)
Liberals are incapable of seeing past their latest cause. By the time damage occurs from their last brilliant idea they're on to some bigger fiasco.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Arby 7/20/2019 11:17:37 AM (No. 129003)
They will never rest until their perfect utopia arrives. It will not arrive. Hence the result: they will never stop annoying us with their endless worries.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 7/20/2019 12:04:02 PM (No. 129052)
What #12 said!
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
franq 7/20/2019 12:43:16 PM (No. 129091)
Always loved that old clip of Ronald Reagan cupping his hand to the ear, feigning difficulty, as he kept right on walking...
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