WATCH: CNN's Acosta Screams At Trump, Man Tells Him To Zip It. Former CNN Producer Slams Him.
A man had to repeatedly turn around to tell CNN White House correspondent and provocateur Jim Acosta to be quiet after he yelled at President Donald Trump on Friday during a White House tax bill event.
The event was "intended to commemorate the more than six months that have passed since he signed the GOP tax bill into law," CBS News reported.
"Mr. President, will you stop calling us the enemy of the people, sir?" Acosta yelled. "Will you stop calling the press the enemy of the people, sir?"
"Mr. President, will you stop calling us the enemy of the people, sir?" Acosta continued to yell.
The man in front of him repeatedly turned around to tell him to be quiet.
WATCH:
Former CNN senior digital producer Steve Krakauer weighed in on Acosta's antics, writing on Twitter:
Truly an embarrassment, on multiple levels. Jim Acosta’s self-serving antics give all good journalists a bad name. twitter.com/Mediaite/statu…
On a day journalists could honor the memory of fellow reporters tragically killed due to a deranged person with a vendetta going back years, Acosta tries to shift the blame to Trump, thus validating many Americans’ feelings about the Acela Media (that existed long before Trump).
"I tried to ask the president if he would stop calling us the enemy of the people," Acosta tweeted. "He did not respond."
"We also had a few folks who shushed is in the audience," Acosta continued. "Of course we are not going to be shushed."
Twitter users quickly criticized and mocked Acosta's misleading tweet:
This is why people don't trust the media. Jim Acosta says he 'asked' the President a question and he wouldn't answer.
The reality: he was shouting in a loud room from fifty feet away. pic.twitter.com/JoBVvxESy7
.@Acosta is not doing anything to help bolster the media's favorability with the American people. pic.twitter.com/4NLIyr8fhU
Hey Jim -- will @cnn stop calling @realDonaldTrump the enemy of the people?
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