Posted on 02/16/2017 2:03:07 PM PST by bobk333
Donald Trump entered the East Room on Thursday reeling from a week filled with resignations, withdrawals and continued questions surrounding his campaign's contacts with Russia.
What followed was an hour-long, full-throated attack on Trump's favorite foil: the media.
“Many of our nation's reporters will not tell you the truth,” Trump said.
“The press honestly is out of control,” Trump said.
“The level of dishonesty is out of control,” Trump said.
And that was before he even took a single question!
It was a return for Trump to what worked for him during the course of the 2016 campaign: A circuslike atmosphere in which he uses the media — and his supporters' distrust of the media — as a sort of tackling dummy to re-center the narrative on ground more favorable to him. Trump didn't just run down the media — although he did a lot of that — but he also mocked various outlets, reviewed shows on cable TV that he likes (and doesn't), told reporters to sit down and be quiet, and critiqued the quality of the questions he was being asked.
There was a rawness to his attacks, a personal invective that seemed well beyond the typically antagonistic relationship that exists between the media and the president they cover.
Why do it? Because Trump understands something very important: For his supporters, the media represent everything they dislike about American society. The media is composed, to their mind, of Ivy-League-educated coastal elites who look down their noses at the average person, dismissing them and their views as stupid and ill-informed. For people who feel like their voices weren't and aren't heard in politics — or culture more broadly — the media is the perfect scapegoat.
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(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Trump entered the room “reeling”? Really? Well then, I guess only GOP presidents ever “reel.” Even after Obama’s dr said he should moderate his alcohol intake, he wasn’t described as ‘reeling.’
BOOKMARK TRUMP PRESS CONFERENCE 02-16-2017
Trump was like a wrecking ball to the MSM. Immensely satisfying.
‘The press was Trumps pinata. The difference was Trump wasn’t blindfolded.’
Bol!
Best campaign ever, best election ever, best POTUS ever, and best admin ever!
This article is bull shit. He said tomorrow the headline will be “Trump ranted and raved”. Apparently they didn’t hear him because that’s what they’re doing. Including this article.
This 100%. Always start with the presumption that the MSM is lying. Let them offer up evidence in rebuttal if they decide they want to be believed.
Compare the media asking Trump questions to when they would ask Obama questions..night and day..the media IS the Democrat Party and they don’t even see how stupid they look..they are SO in the tank for the Democrat Party that they can’t see they are looking like complete and utter buffoons
A master class in the bully pulpit and much needed
Best campaign ever, best election ever, best POTUS ever, and best admin ever!
President Trump proved with this performance that he is the best president ever and the only one that would have been able to Save America from the mess democrats got us into.
Trump just keeps exposing the socialist chimpanzees for what they are.
Reporter says this snidely, I can almost hear the contempt in their writing.
However, it's absolutely a true statement. Every election, both sides say that "THIS is the most important election of your LIFE!" etc etc. But, in this particular case, I think that 2016 may have been a watershed moment, when the American public decided to turn away from a Socialist society (like Europe) and move back towards a free society again. I strongly doubt that the country could have recovered from a Clinton election...I'm still dubious if it will be able to recover from the past 25-30 years of Democrat and Democrat-lite..
“from a week filled with resignations, withdrawals “
Plural, Chris?
Hmmm.
5.56mm
the media is the perfect scapegoat.
?? Scapegoat?? how about The Media makes Hillary look Honest and Trustworthy
I agree. Trump was jovial throughout.
He repeatedly said his administration is working like clock-work. While that’s self-serving, it does address what is going on in the background that the public doesn’t see.
He’s not bogged down. He’s going full speed ahead.
The media is constantly skewing things to mislead.
The NYT last night had another story that was Banther food by this morning’s press conference. It’s shameful what they are up to.
In this press conference alone, there were more false charges brought up. So at the same time they were saying the president was wrong to charge them with airing fake news, they were airing fake news.
Strange days...
Just reading that description of the press conference makes me laugh and smile. This is good for my health!
For as long as this man is in the White House, lead by the Obama Shadow Government, the press will do everything in its power to try to turn the nation against him, or get a ball rolling down the hill of Impeachment. That is their goal. That is the only way, short of losing the election in four years, that they can get rid of him, so they will be in full assault.
They get their orders from the dimocrats and from little georgie soros, the Nazi loving thug who did everything he could during WWII to send Jews to the gas chambers of the Nazi's. He pumps his money into the One World Government mob. Obama was his baby. He paid to get him elected. He thought Obama 2.0 under Hillary was next. Now, Trump comes along and destroys his plan to destroy America. So, he has to get Trump out of the way. He will use every leftist in the world to do it.
All the liberals, leftists, commies, socialists, muzzie lovers, homos, etc. that are still working for the government will do everything in their power to leak anything they can to get rid of Trump. Except for those in the field doing the hard work, I wish he would fire everyone in Langley. Then clean out Foggy Bottom. Those two offices are full of career dimocrats doing the work for the One Worlders. Trump has a hard road. I wish him the best. I pray for him and his government every night. I also pray for God's power to come down and destroy these criminals and haters of good. They hate Him. He is The Good they hate first. Then they hate all of us second. Hang tough Donald.
These reporters are dumb. They should know that any agent who withholds information from the President would be committing treason and would be shot. And any agent who would leak this kind of information about another agent to the press....Ditto. they should KNOW it’s fake. But they don’t ever question their sources.
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