On November 7 , 2018 , the day after the midterm elections , President Trump held a press conference at the White House . CNN White House Correspondent Jim Acosta asked President Trump about his use of the word invasion to describe the Central American migrant caravans . Trump then answered he wants the immigrants to come in legally and argued with Acosta about his position on the issue . While asking his follow-up question , Trump refused to answer and cut Acosta off , by stating " Honestly , I think you should let me run the country , you run CNN , and if you did it well , your ratings would be much better " before signaling to a White House intern to take the microphone , and calling on someone else . Acosta then refused to give up the mic and tried to ask a question regarding the Special Counsel investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections , but Trump repeated " That 's enough " three more times before the intern tried to take the microphone from him . Acosta resisted , and Trump followed by telling Acosta to " put down the mic . " After , when the intern took the microphone and gave it to another reporter , Acosta sat down , and Trump said " CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them . You are a rude , terrible person . You should n't be working for CNN . " Trump then claimed Acosta has mistreated Sarah Huckabee Sanders in the past . After Trump began taking questions from another reporter who came to Acosta 's defense and Trump claimed to not like either , Acosta then stood back up and mentioned that CNN was sent pipe bombs by a Trump supporter , to which Trump replied " When you report fake news , which CNN does a lot , you are the enemy of the people "
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