President Trump suggested Thursday that if he turned the other cheek in the political world, he wouldn’t be in office.
Trump participated in a Fox News town hall and addressed several issues, including the coronavirus, the economy and foreign policy. But two questions from the audience related to the political divide and his inclination to hit back on Twitter and in the media when attacked sparked insightful responses.
“Insult politics,” a man in the audience told Trump, “have become a staple of this political environment.”
“Could there be a way that we can deliver your message without the controversial rhetoric and [with] efforts to reunite this country during these divisive times?” the man asked.
Trump answered by saying the “country is far more united than people think” and that economic success is the “way we unite” people from opposing viewpoints.
But hitting back, he said, is a necessary part of his strategy.
“When they hit us, we have to hit back,” Trump said. “I feel that. I mean there’s two ways of doing it – turning your cheek, but I wouldn’t be sitting up here if I turned my cheek.
“If I said, ‘OK, just let them keep hitting at me, and I won’t do it [hit back],” then Fox News is “not interviewing me right now, they’re interviewing somebody else. … You can’t turn your cheek.”
“We get hit so hard,” he added, “and we have a…
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