let's play softball -- questions...

It was a softball question.  As softball questions go, it doesn't get more softball than this.

NBC's Peter Alexander gave Cadet Bone Spurs the opening all political leaders crave.  He asked him, "What do you say to Americans watching you right now who are scared?".

This was his Fireside Chat moment, his "Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself" moment, his "Shining City on the Hill" moment.  It was his opportunity to bring all Americans together, to rally around the flag and we are all Americans moment.  It was the opportunity to shine and let all Americans rally around the effort to beat back the coronavirus.  It was the chance to be proud for a moment.

Instead...

What does he say to Americans watching right now who are scared?

"I say you are a terrible reporter.  I think it's a very nasty question, and I think that's a very bad signal that you're putting out to the American people.  The American people are looking for answers and they're looking for hope.  And you're doing sensationalism, and the same with NBC and Comcast.  I don't call it Comcast, I call it Concast, for whom you work.  Let me just tell you something.  That's really bad reporting, and you ought to get back to reporting instead of sensationalism.  Let's see if it works  It might and it might not.  I happen to feel good about it, but who knows?  I've been right a lot.  Let's see what happens".

And then while a reporter was asking him the next question, he told Mr. Alexander "You ought to be ashamed of yourself", signalling, if nothing else, that he was not paying attention to the question being posed to him even though he had called on the reporter to ask it.

He was given the chance to shine and took it to make gratuitous insults and say a softball question is nasty.  We can only imagine how he would answer hard questions.  On the other hand, we have already seen how he does with those.

Don't believe me?  Watch the clip.  And watch the fact that nobody in the background bats an eye when he comes up with this drivel.

Leader of the free world, my ass.

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/03/20/trump-responds-to-question-about-coronavirus-fears-by-bashing-the-media/23956487/