Posted on 01/27/2017 10:47:03 AM PST by Rennes Templar
President Donald Trump is plagued by insecurities about his coverage in the media, aides who were not authorized to speak to the press revealed to The Associated Press anonymously. Trump's aides think they have a solution, though: Get the president to watch less TV.
It's easier said than done:
After relishing in Friday's inaugural festivities, the new president grew increasingly upset the next day by what he felt was "biased" media coverage of women's marches across the globe protesting his election, according to a person familiar with his thinking. Trump was particularly enraged with CNN, which he thought was "gloating" by continually running photos of the women's march alongside the smaller crowds that attended his inauguration the day before, according to this person, one of several White House aides and associates who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations. [The Associated Press]
Trump frequently responds to cable news coverage using his Twitter account, and he makes a point of calling or texting show hosts to react. "Most mornings, Trump flicks on the TV and watches Morning Joe, often for long periods of time, sometimes interrupted with texts to the hosts or panelists," Axios reported Tuesday.
And for the ex-reality TV star, the obsession is hard to curb:
Underscoring Trump's habit of stoking rivalries among his staff, he has told people he wants his counselor Kellyanne Conway to be on television more. He cheered her use of the phrase "alternative facts" in a recent interview as a way to counteract what he believes is the media's inherent bias.
Those around Trump are trying to get the cable news consumer-in-chief to be near a television less often, according to one person who has spoken with him.
No names to the sources. Why am I not surprised?
Just more fake news
Just more fake news
I agree with the “sources”. Less is more in this case.
We should ALL watch less TV.
Isn’t AP the “news” source that knowingly altered a tweet by Ari Fleisher this week to change its meaning? Then had to apologize for it after they got caught.
“Just more fake news”
Yew betcha.
Wonder why he would be so delicate now after taking as much as he did during the campaign.
“...aides who were not authorized to speak to the press revealed to The Associated Press anonymously...”
A show of hands - who believes this?
And - IF it’s true, how long do you think these “aides” will remain?
This story has more than a whiff of fakeness emanating from it...
Better than 5 hours on the golf course.
The media’s on-going smear campaign.
And do what instead? He’s entitled to down time and if he wants to watch TV then that’s what he’ll do. And given the crap that’s on the tube these days, news is the only thing worth watching.
I get the sense from this president that he would not long suffer those he considers disloyal.
And running ones mouth to the AP is definitely disloyal.
President Trump’s advisers are begging him to watch less TV
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Yeah? And do what? Go golfing? Start taking monthly million dollar vacations?
oh no’s !!
this is the end of Trump for sure this time!
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ROFL
ABC did that.
“We should ALL watch less TV.”
Ha, so true!
Trump knows how dishonest the MSM is.
I would respectfully suggest an FR membership for President Trump
Nothing but concern trolling by the media.
He needs to fight the media every day. They cannot be allowed to slip back into the camouflage of pretend ‘objective journalists.’
Trump needs to reveal them as they really are, as his (and our) political opponents, and that is a never-ending task that must be done daily.
Bush 43 was a fool for failing to counter the barrage of lies and attacks launched by the media, instead serenely confident that in the long run someday historians would set the record straight. Riiiiiight.
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