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That’s Entertainment! Trump’s 75-Minute Tour de Force
american spectator ^ | Scott McKay

Posted on 02/17/2017 6:44:39 AM PST by RoosterRedux

Presidential press conferences will never be the same again.

Donald Trump, giving press conferences as president, is like a cross between Fidel Castro’s long-windedness and machismo and Christopher Walken’s theatrical presence — and nobody else in the room can compete with that.

This was on display Thursday, when after a week’s worth of his administration being buffeted by a hurricane of negative media coverage — some of it deserved, some much less so — the president turned himself loose in the East Room.

An hour and 15 minutes later, he walked out of what could be described as a smoldering ruin.

Trump touted his administration’s achievements and advertised major reforms on the way in health care and tax policy, hinted that he’ll have a new immigration/travel order next week to moot the judicial assault on his constitutional power by the Ninth Circuit, announced a new Labor Secretary nominee to replace Andy Puzder — Alex Acosta, who is (we learned) not related to CNN White House reporter Jim Acosta — and absolutely took the mainstream media to task for their snarling behavior since his inauguration. It was a freewheeling, wide-open, raucous barroom brawl of a presser, with Trump taking on every questioner with swagger and New York moxie — Ari Fleischer called it a “friendly hostility” — while pushing back against narrative after narrative.

Trump’s effectiveness in punishing the Democrat press for its feeding frenzy surrounding the Mike Flynn resignation could be seen by the reaction. Jake Tapper accused him of “whining.” Shepard Smith cast aside any pretense of — not objectivity, but composure. Chuck Todd screamed about his “delegitimization” of the press, calling it “un-American” and “not a laughing matter.”

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To: Moonman62

‘Plus they have an alternate source of information with the Internet.’

This is crucial. And on the Net, the Establishment is moonbat liberal, and the ‘rebels,’ are conservative.


41 posted on 02/17/2017 7:42:42 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: UCANSEE2

the problem is that relatively few folks (less than 5%) see it unfiltered. The rest get it through media summaries - and just see their take.

I was in transit yesterday - and at both my gates - CNN was loud. And they had a completely different take - unfortunately, most people were watching. I wante to scream @ CNN


42 posted on 02/17/2017 7:42:52 AM PST by bob_esb
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To: ClearCase_guy

It was our after dinner entertainment last night. Best Press conference ever


43 posted on 02/17/2017 7:46:31 AM PST by goodnesswins (Say hello to President Trump)
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To: RoosterRedux
I confess that when Obama criticized the press I was alarmed, but when Trump does, I'm not. The reasons are:

1. Obama's criticism was limited to Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and conservative talk radio in general. Even though 90% of the press was behind him, it bugged him that it wasn't 100%, and I thought that was spooky.

2. I thought Obama might actually do something to shut up his media critics. There was that idea he floated to have "monitors" in the nation's newsrooms to examine the process by He also was trying to establish criteria by which "under-represented communities," i.e., left-wing activist groups, would be able to push conservatives off the air based on a demand for "equal time." Any conservative station would thus have to reduce conservative air time in favor of leftist alternatives.

3. There is no way that Trump could or would actually try to use the government to suppress liberal journalism.

4. Trump is criticizing a very dangerous trend in journalism, in which the deep government actively joins forces with the media to bring down a president via illegal leaks, innuendo, and actual falsehoods.
44 posted on 02/17/2017 7:47:56 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: datricker

I didn’t know skiing had topped snowboarding with the teen generation. Interesting!

Trump definitely factors into this sea change. The teachers and other authority figures went too all-in on Hilary. Teens can be ruthless in spotting fakes, and Hillary fairly screams Fake! at every turn. Trump is genuine, warts and all—and teens love him.


45 posted on 02/17/2017 7:47:57 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: bigbob

No teleprompter, and no wide screen tv in the middle of the room with big letters continuously scrolling on what the next question is and how to answer it.


46 posted on 02/17/2017 7:52:21 AM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: RoosterRedux

I love how Trump has co-opted the term “fake news” which was originally coined by the libs.


47 posted on 02/17/2017 7:58:20 AM PST by matt1234 (Jan. 20, 2017: the national nightmare ended.)
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To: Mr. K
What you have to remember:

If they get rid of President Trump, they WILL kill 25 million of us to shut us up.

It's all about controlling the Supreme Court. I'd lay money that the Senate Democrats and the #FakeStreamMedia combine to block President Trump's Supreme Court picks.

48 posted on 02/17/2017 8:07:04 AM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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To: RoosterRedux
An hour and 15 minutes later, he walked out of what could be described as a smoldering ruin.

Trumpzilla!!

Bwah hah hah hah hah!!

49 posted on 02/17/2017 8:09:48 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: Gaffer
If I ever saw that Garrett in public and met him face to face it would take all I could muster to keep from busting him in the face.

Invite him to step around back of the building...

50 posted on 02/17/2017 8:13:53 AM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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To: mewzilla

With a purposeful grimace and a terrible sound
He pulls the national press corps down.

Helpless liars in the press corps’ room
Scream bug-eyed as he looks in on them.

He picks up a mike and he throws it back down
Wades through their crap. This is now his town.

Oh no, they say he’s got to go go go Trumpzilla
Oh no, there goes the WaPo go go Trumpzilla.

History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men


51 posted on 02/17/2017 8:24:13 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: Gaffer
I am so tired of that wise ass smarty look of Major Garrett’s (CBS). Just a snide, smirky, smarmy condescending arrogance that just oozes hate. He reeks of it.

Well, he is a Major after all. That's no small accomplishment! But I guess he's still irritated his parents didn't name him Colonel.

52 posted on 02/17/2017 8:24:32 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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To: poconopundit; aquila48; trebb
I'm glad Major Garrett still hasn't totally lost his wits when it comes to respect for the Presidency.

It's not so on Twitter, where Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey allows people who threaten Trump's life to stay on Twitter.

This may come to force of arms, and The Muslim Seditionist, Zerobama, has seditious embeds within the US military.

I know of one retired Special Forces colonel whose wife, a reporter purporter & a former employee of the Pentagon, was talking about a coup several weeks ago.

The seditious scumbag "colonel" lets it all hang out on Twitter.

We may have to fight these people in our own country.

53 posted on 02/17/2017 8:25:08 AM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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To: poconopundit
And the answer he gave was a high point of the press conference. Trump explained how he was going to keep military matters secret and how the press was trying to kill the opportunity for Russia and America to work together for peace.

I agree this was one of the most important points. Trump came in with a good chance of finding some area of mutual benefit where US and Russia could work together. At least a possibility. But with all this incessant anti-Russian pollution, drumming up bad feelings, insulting Russia -- even if the Russians see through it, it impacts what they can do (they have a public also) and what Trump can do. So one has to conclude that they are doing this on purpose to make sure that Trump and Putin can't ever get anything going.

54 posted on 02/17/2017 9:23:40 AM PST by Old_Grouch (69 and AARP-free. Monthly FR contributor.)
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To: Old_Grouch
I agree. And don't kid yourself that it's not just the media, but the entire intel Deep State, led by John McCain, that wants to see Russia and America at odds with each other -- forever.

If Trump can get Russia and the USA on the same page, there's a Nobel Peace Prize in that accomplishment, even though we can never expect the Lefties in Norway to help Trump one little bit.

55 posted on 02/17/2017 9:27:17 AM PST by poconopundit (Trust thyself, every heart vibrates to that iron string. Emerson)
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To: RoosterRedux

It did go too long. The WH should stop the media’s statements before asking questions. President Trump should follow a strict guideline and not repeat himself so much.

But, don’t you just love the way he has boxed in the press?


56 posted on 02/17/2017 9:34:15 AM PST by jch10 (President Trump, President Trump, President Trump! I just love saying that!)
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To: RoosterRedux

I asked a lib relative about it. She sniffed, “I read the transcript. He doesn’t even speak in complete sentences!”


57 posted on 02/17/2017 10:26:55 AM PST by AZLiberty (A is now A once again.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Trump does a service to the First Amendment in demanding the press do a better job of objective coverage, at least if it purports to brand itself as unbiased.

This is what the morons in the news media industry just don't get. Trump is actually trying to help them. They are thoroughly discredited in the eyes of true Americans. In their pompous self-righteousness they won't see it, or may be they can't.

58 posted on 02/17/2017 12:34:39 PM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: Fantasywriter

I’m not sure skiing has over come snowboarding it just seems like much more popular with the kids these days than lets say a decade ago. Not a fact just an observation


59 posted on 02/17/2017 12:50:18 PM PST by datricker (Democratic Party - aborting their voter base since 1973)
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