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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The wapo article shows how these people opine so poorly..cilizza is some amateur psychologist/sociologist who thinks he can divine the meaning of the presser he has just seen..give us the true news or go away...you are on your last legs of importance to us. We don’t believe anything you write or present....you are not our window on the world
.instant communication about events is possible without your mediation..get your imagined self importance off the stage..
reeling?...............Really?...............
Man, oh man, that guy is good!!
President Trump : DEPUTIZE US , your 60 million plus voters and supporters .
You don’t even need to arm us , We are willing to bring our own ...
Amen to your prayer
As he said, he inherited a mess and it’s going to take him a while to clean it up, or drain the swamp, but will it be fun watching!
The people Obama left who are corrupt or have malintent, or are tools of corruption and malintent, is legion.
It’s about damn time somebody fought back against those sanctimonious elitist s.o.b.’s!!
“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.”
How laughable that media wonders......the very first effing sentence of this article completely distorts........first, President Trump was not “REELING”, secondly, “a week filled with “resignationS” (note the plurality) “withdrawalS” (note the plurality). They obviously have to exaggerate, because the reality must be THEY HAVE NOTHING!
go Trump !
The media are made up of coastal elites who look down their noses at the rest of us....don’t think many are Ivy League educated
We we don’t hate the media for being part of the elitist pack. We hate them for their partisanship and the reprehensible tactics and bias that have only gotten worse with Trump as president. They have become parodies of themselves but no one on the left, save for a few, can see it.
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Exactly. Well said.
Best press spokesman ever
I’m feeling faint from all the winning.
I just got a questionnaire from Trump/Pence.
Take a few moments and fill one out, ‘cuz there is a chance to plug our favorite news sources, which for me was Drudge and FR.
Hilarious to us. But on Twitter the libs are of one mind, that Trump is “crazy” and “a parody” and should be gotten away from the nuclear button. It’s all they have.
In order for Trump to be wrong like they think, do they realize it means they have to believe every word of every lying leftist media and comedian? By logical extension, libs therefore telegraph that they have no discernment. They don’t even get this. They have to believe every lying word of CNN!
Gads, I love Trump
More gads, I hate, loathe, spit upon, take bodacious dumps upon, and generally look forward to the long and painful deaths of the press.
And note to the “press”, I and my friends could out think you marshmallow majors after 10 shots of scotch.
Shove it, simple minds, and enjoy the fact that the Trumpster owns your asses.
Nattering nabobs of negativism.
I agree. Loved the quip about lightweight Schumer. Too funny!
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