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Donald Trump speech livestream thrown into chaos as CNN among networks forced to abruptly cut feed sparking outrage
The president-elect was in the middle of his speech when the feeds were interrupted
VIEWERS were left baffled after live streams of Donald Trump's speech were thrown into chaos on Wednesday morning.
President-elect Trump was giving a speech at the House Republican Conference when all networks cut their feeds.
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Networks including CNN, Fox, and the Associated Press cut their audio as their cameras turned away from the address at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill.
Viewers shared their outrage at the interruption on social media.
"The pool cameraman is fired," one slammed on X.
"Trump is talking and the pool cameraman or woman can't even keep the camera straight."
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"What’s happening that the news just cut away from Trump’s speech???" one confused viewer wrote.
A reason for the interruption hasn't been given.
Reporters only got to witness a few minutes of Trump's address.
"It's always nice to win," Trump said, acknowledging his victory over Democrat Kamala Harris last week.
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He secured all seven swing states to sweep to power, winning 312 electoral college votes to Harris' 226 in the end.
As he spoke about his victory in swing states, a person at the conference could be heard shouting something unintelligible.
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The outburst caused Trump to pause for a moment as he looked at the person shouting.
Camera feeds then began to start shaking and wobbling as Republicans applauded Trump speaking about his election win.
The stream cut just a few moments later.
It's unclear if the shout is related to the interruption.
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In the days following his dominant Election Day victory, President-elect Donald Trump has begun carving out his future administation.
Here's a list of Trump's confirmed cabinet picks:
- Susie Wiles - White House Chief of Staff
- Stephen Miller - Deputy Chief of Staff
- Bill McGinley - White House counsel
- Tom Homan, ex-ICE acting director, - "Border Czar"
- Elise Stefanik, Republican New York representative, - Ambassador to the United Nations
- Lee Zeldin, former New York representative, - Environmental Protection Agency administrator
- Marco Rubio, Republican Florida senator, - Secretary of State
- Kristi Noem, Republican South Dakota governor, - Homeland Security Secretary
- Mike Huckabee, former Arkansas governor, - Ambassador to Israel
- John Ratcliffe, former Texas representative, - CIA director
- Pete Hegseth, US Army veteran, - Secretary of Defense
- Mike Waltz, Republican Florida representative, - National Security Advisor
- Steven Witkoff, real estate investor, - Middle East envoy
- Elon Musk & Vivek Ramaswamy - Department of Government Efficiency
reported that today's meeting was a closed-door conference, which doesn't explain the abrupt exits.
Despite the stopped streams, Trump's remarks at the conference continued.
Meanwhile, some angry Trump supporters accused the media of having bias, noting that cameras are often trained on President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden without cutting off.
"Camera guy that's on Jill Biden has NO issues," one slammed on X.
"Only the camera that's supposed to show President-elect Trump has technical difficulties & we can't watch him speak, but Jill Biden is being shown w/out any problems.
"Press pool or Fox News? Unacceptable!"
WHITE HOUSE VISIT
Trump's meeting with House Republicans is set to be followed by a visit to the White House.
President Joe Biden invited the president-elect to a meeting, honoring a decades-old tradition where the outgoing president hosts the incoming one.
However, Trump broke the tradition in 2020 when Biden was elected to be president.
At the time, Trump didn't extend an invitation to host Biden at the White House as he refused to concede the election results.
The tradition dates at least back to the 1920s when at the White House.
Trump arrived in Washington DC on Wednesday morning with Elon Musk, who was just named to lead Trump's Department of Government Efficiency alongside Vivek Ramaswamy.
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Musk sat with the House Republicans during the first minutes of Trump's remarks and even got a round of applause from the crowd.
The future First Lady Melania Trump isn't attending today's White House meeting, but no explanation has been given for her absence.
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