Author Bob Woodward really took President Trump’s pushback on a “white privilege” question personally.
Two days after he complained to 60 Minutes that Trump “was ridiculing me” for asking the question, he told CBS This Morning that “Trump mocked me.”
Woodward said, “I explicitly asked him, said do you see that anger and pain that black people have?”
He added, “Trump mocked me. This tape is out. He said, ‘Boy, you are really drinking the Kool-Aid. Just listen to you.’ And he said he did not have that feeling that it was his job to understand somebody else’s pain and anger.”
.@realBobWoodward tells @GayleKing President Trump “mocked” him when asked if he sees the pain Black people are going through right now, and that “[Trump] did not have that feeling that it was his job to understand somebody else’s pain and anger.” pic.twitter.com/DGsryZQSPA
— CBS This Morning (@CBSThisMorning) September 15, 2020
The question was part of Woodward’s new book, Rage, his second book critical of Trump. For this book, Trump talked to Woodward.
On 60 Minutes, Woodward reacted to his taped conversation:
WOODWARD: And do you have any sense that that privilege has isolated and put you in a cave, to a certain extent, as it put me, and I think lots of White, privileged people, in a cave and that we have to work our way out of it to understand the anger and the pain, particularly, black people feel in this country? Do you see?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: No. You, you really drank the Kool-Aid, didn’t you? Just listen to you, wow. No, I don’t feel that at all.
WOODWARD: He was ridiculing me for reflecting what the whole movement, after George Floyd, is.
