Sorry media — this press conference played very different with Trump’s supporters

New York Post ^ | 02/16/2017 | Michael Goodwin

[ForYourChildren]

Maybe it’s not a coincidence that Barnum & Bailey is folding its tents this year. After all, how could the circus possibly compete with Donald Trump?

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Amid feverish reports of chaos on his team and with Democrats fantasizing that Russia-gate is another Watergate, Trump took center stage to declare that reports of his demise are just more fake news.

Far from dead, he was positively exuberant. His performance at a marathon press conference was a must-see-tv spectacle as he mixed serious policy talk with stand-up comedy and took repeated pleasure in whacking his favorite pinata, the “dishonest media.”

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Trump’s detractors immediately panned the show as madness, but they missed the method behind it and proved they still don’t understand his appeal. Facing his first crisis in the Oval Office, he was unbowed in demonstrating his bare-knuckled intention to fight back.

He did it his way. Certainly no other president, and few politicians at any level in any time, would dare put on a show like that.

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[Stand Watch Listen]

I didn't see all of it and maybe he asked the media the following question. (If not, he needs to): Why do you think the public trust in you is 30% or lower?

President Trump did state how the Favorability Rating of the press was even lower than that of Congress!

[trebb]

And what makes it more impressive is that it was “hastily thrown together” because it hadn’t been on his agenda -he pretty much an ad-lib w/o the normal notes.

[TheOldLady]

The dumbocrats and their allies in the opposition media are in for a long 8 years
as DJT has more energy and endurance than anyone they have ever encountered.

From your keyboard to God's Ears.

[bitt]

!!! great pic!

[confederatecarpetbag]

President Trump doesn’t treat the media with kid gloves.

He treats the media with boxing gloves.

[immadashell]

Agreeed. I loved GW, but he took it, took it, took it...

The more I think about it the more I wonder whether this was Rove calling the shots for W. Rove wouldn't have lasted to the first coffee break after the election before Trump canned him.