When News Media Allow People To Show Their Ass, Whose "fault" Is It?

Reading this
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/17/donald-trump-was-asked-to-name-one-of-his-heroes-his-answer-was-very-very-strange/?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.7ae66e58df56

I started wondering about follow up questions.
I'm open about being a former journalist. Indeed, my news career, 10 years, was spent as a member of the site.
While I'm mostly recovering, I do get the itch.

Reading coverage of Trump, I think I'd be too exasperated to say much as a follow up besides "and what, exactly, does that mean in English?"
I'd like to think I would have said, "so, you see yourself as entirely self made. Does that mean your failures are all yours as well?"

If you could have been there, what one, simple, direct question would you have asked?


Off to find some aspirin after that.
Stream of consciousness is fine, in literature.

 

I think some hard ass reporters could push for some actual answers.
And golly, they could have a year ago.

Typically, interviewing people, especially people with whom I disagreed, was fascinating.
On occasion, I'd find some point of common ground, even if it was just coffee grounds.

 

Well you cannot use Twitter without "twit."