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Trump remains the biggest obstacle in his administration’s messaging
NBC "News" ^ | JAN 14 2018, 5:58 AM ET | VIVIAN SALAMA

Posted on 01/14/2018 8:19:06 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

WASHINGTON — Last summer, President Donald Trump publicly pinned much of the blame for his administration’s woes on its communications efforts.

The White House and his broader administration could do better at communicating his agenda in one unified voice, he conceded in a Fox News interview, giving himself a “C or a C plus” on messaging.

But Trump’s leaked remarks during an immigration meeting Thursday calling Africa a bunch of “shithole countries,” coupled with his contradictory tweets that same day about a House bill authorizing foreign surveillance on U.S. soil, underscored his administration’s continued struggle with public messaging nearly one year into his presidency.

n using Twitter as a main vehicle for communicating — often unsupervised and free from the protocol that typically goes into official statements — Trump frequently undermines his staffers, contradicts their public statements and sends heated tweets that often derail efforts to stay on message.

Trump defends his use of Twitter, saying that it offers him a chance to communicate directly with the American people in an open and honest way. But the president, who often takes his cues from cable news — he frequently tags Fox News to his tweets — or from the last adviser to brief him, has proven that in many cases, his views are flexible and subject to influence.

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KEYWORDS: bordersecurity; fourth100days; hellholes; trump45
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To: Blackirish

“Trump is his own worst enemy and that’s just how it is. He’s not going to change.”

No, he is not. That’s just retarded liberalism speaking.


21 posted on 01/14/2018 8:40:20 AM PST by CodeToad (CWII is coming. Arm Up! They Are!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Interesting... at 11:38am Trump had 46,648,540 followers. At 11:41am he had 46,648,751.


22 posted on 01/14/2018 8:41:04 AM PST by glenduh
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

bull folking sheet, he is a very effective messenger


23 posted on 01/14/2018 8:44:16 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Blackirish
Trump is his own worst enemy and that’s just how it is. He’s not going to change.

You're right of course. That's why Hillary won. If only he had listened to you.

24 posted on 01/14/2018 8:47:25 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Trump IS the message.

The message is Trump.


25 posted on 01/14/2018 8:47:38 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Well, he’s doing pretty good so far. In one year has kicked the hell out of ISIS and has erased about half of Obama’s screw ups and is working on the other half. Has already turned the economy around and is bringing back capital, coal, gas & oil, manufacturing and jobs, jobs, jobs (something the liberals said couldn’t be done). Even black unemployment is down—something Obama could never do. Business is booming, the stock market is booming and the liberals are whining like moonbats. He’s cut regulations, cut government, cut spending, cut taxes, is reforming government, rebuilding the military, appointing constitutionally conservative judges, has a handle on illegal immigration and has slapped a moratorium on Islamofascist immigration. And he communicates directly to we the via the internet, bypassing the MSM gatekeepers and propagandists. Greatest communicator since Ronald Reagan. No wonder the liberasls are pissed. Life is good.


26 posted on 01/14/2018 8:48:27 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Translation:

Now that Bush guy, we really liked him.

Quiet, unresponsive to much of anything...

Why there was a movie made about killing him, and still crickets.

Can’t we return to those days?


27 posted on 01/14/2018 8:52:17 AM PST by DoughtyOne (A/O 01/12/18 DJIA business close 25,803.19, a 44.25% increase over the morning of 11/07/16.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Q !UW.yye1fxo 01/13/18 (Sat) 22:10:46 No.19
MSM Fake News Awards.
Are you prepared?
MEMES/POSTS.
Organized and coordinated?
POTUS may reTWEET one or more.
READY FOR LAUNCH?
SHOW the WORLD.
SHOW the WORLD the TRUTH.
OPEN THEIR EYES.
DON’T LET POTUS SUFFER FROM THE SOROS/LOSER BOTS THAT CONTINUALLY FLOOD.
MAKE THE FAKE NEWS AWARDS YOUR 1ST ORGANIZED TWEET STORM DAY.
MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
Q

Q !UW.yye1fxo 01/13/18 (Sat) 22:17:29 No.20
WE, THE PEOPLE!
WE, THE PEOPLE!
WE, THE PEOPLE!
WE, THE PEOPLE!
WHERE WE GO ONE, WE GO ALL.
NO ONE PERSON IS ABOVE ANOTHER.
WE, THE PEOPLE, ARE MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE.
WE, THE PEOPLE, ARE TAKING BACK OUR COUNTRY (& WORLD) FROM THE EVIL LOSERS WHO WOULD DO US HARM (ALL FOR A BUCK).
NO MORE.
STAND UP PATRIOTS.
STAND UP AND DEFEND WHAT YOU KNOW IS RIGHT.
GOD BLESS YOU AND GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
4, 10, 20
- - - - - -
D J T

Note that this is one of the few “Q” Posts that is not signed by “Q”, but by DJT using the English Gematria values for his initials. So now we know that “Q” is not President Trump, but works directly for him. This means that all of these “leaks” are official releases from the National Command Authority.

So maybe the MSM should worry about the President’s Q postings more than his Tweets.


28 posted on 01/14/2018 8:53:43 AM PST by SubMareener (Save us from Quarterly Freepathons! Become a MONTHLY DONOR)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

While trum[p is not exactly smooth. The reality is the press would give Obama a pass on things he said and did. The press is making a big deal on everything. The democrats made this last storm because Trump was getting good press. So they simply attacked him to kill any deal. They want to wait until after the election to allow them to write the bill as they want. This was not a trump mistake. It was a democrat hit job designed to stop any democrats from making a deal.


29 posted on 01/14/2018 8:57:28 AM PST by poinq
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If Trump’s message was that Dems REALLY want to import people from s***hole countries but he wants smart immigration that helps the US, then he got his message out very well this week. And the media helped him.

Most people didn’t need to be told those countries were s***holes. But they did need to be pulled out of the same old “boring” details of immigration legislation. I may love to hear about “chain migration”, “temporary refugees”, and a dozen other terms along with competing stats (R vs D) on crime, cost, miles of wall, etc. But a majority of the public doesn’t care and needs the conversation simplified to “do we want immigrants from s***hole countries”?


30 posted on 01/14/2018 8:57:34 AM PST by LostPassword
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To: All

Any Twitter users here? In less than 20 minutes, President Trump picked up over 1,000 new followers. Is that normal?


31 posted on 01/14/2018 8:59:16 AM PST by glenduh
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To: Jim 0216

The Super Bowl is on NBC this year.
Won’t be watching (unless the Steelers somehow make it).
Jim Nance reported last evening during the NE game that one of the performers from “Hamilton” will be singing “God Bless America” and that Pink will sing the “National Anthem”.


32 posted on 01/14/2018 9:22:14 AM PST by Ramcat (Thank You American Veterans)
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To: stars & stripes forever

And that goes for their worshipers,too.


33 posted on 01/14/2018 9:39:22 AM PST by Leep (The dims better watch it..Trump is CRAZY!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

NBC “News” what 180 degrees if truth sounds like.


34 posted on 01/14/2018 11:03:25 AM PST by Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What a STUPID headline. How about “The establish part of the government administration hinders Trump”?


35 posted on 01/14/2018 11:34:26 AM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free

What utter garbage from Garbage News.


36 posted on 01/14/2018 12:32:36 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

37 posted on 01/14/2018 2:44:05 PM PST by GCFADG (Pardon me.)
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