She was praised for having the sass to ask the questions whose answers most of us wanted to know.
A thirdtweeted: “Tonight @SavannahGuthrie represented her friends and colleagues @TODAYshow and @NBCNews splendidly.
Truth to power.”
Trump responded: “That was a retweet.
That was the opinion of somebody.
That was a retweet.
I’ll put it out there, people can decide for themselves and take a position.”
Guthrie interjected: “I don’t get that.
You’re the president.
You’re not, like, someone’s crazy uncle who can just retweet whatever” (viaTwitter).
The comment sent social media into a frenzy, with one usercommenting: “Savannah Guthrie for the win.
You’re the President.
You’re not like someone’s crazy uncle who can retweet whatever.'
GET HIM, GUTHRIE.
He said the money owed came from working in the real estate business.
“And it’s leveraged with normally normal banks.
Not a big deal.”
He also said some of his loans were “favors to institutions that wanted to loan me money.
He rambled without answering.
Guthrie pressed him again.
He responds by talking about how badly the IRS treats him.
Guthrie says just release your taxes.
This town hall is awful for Trump.
Trump from releasing his tax returns during an audit.
No, Trump says, ‘except common sense and intelligence.'”
Onetweeted: “Shame on Ms. Guthrie.
She lacks professionalism and respect for our President.
We shouldn’t expect anything else from CNN (sic), but I was hopeful.”
A secondlaid into Guthrie, saying, “She wasn’t a moderator.
She was a participant, was rude and disrespectful to the POTUS!
She was horrible!”
A thirdsaid: “I thought it was a town hall.
Why does Savanah feel the need to ‘pepper’ Trump with questions.
She came across very biased.”
NBC sold us and the ‘town folks’ a bill of goods.”
And to those tweets, there were also responses.
Anothersaid: “Savannah did a great job.
She brought out all the madman’s lies and nutcase theories about himself and his imaginary accomplishments.
His taxes talk was totally ridiculous.
I was actually laughing at his sweating trying to defend himself with lie after lie.”
