Posted on 05/12/2017 2:08:14 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
President Donald Trump hopped onto Twitter Friday morning to fight back against media criticism, suggesting his surrogates cannot be accurate all the time because he is an "active president."
In a series of tweets, Trump said the "fake media is working overtime today" and wondered if he should cancel all future press briefings in the name of accuracy. Trump is taking criticism for conflicting narratives coming out of the White House over the dismissal of FBI Director James Comey.
He later tweeted that Comey should hope there were no tapes of their private conversations "before he starts leaking to the press."
"The Fake Media is working overtime today!"
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017
"As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy! ."
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017
" Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future "press briefings" and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy???"
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017
"James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!"
Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017
UPDATE 8:28 A.M.: This article was updated to include Trump's tweet about James Comey.
Worrying about what Anderson Cooper says about you is a waste of time. That’s high school sh&@
So you prefer being a doormat and a punching bag. Great strategy there.
Like Chuck Wooley said the media got Nixon tried Reagan and lost and now it's steroids to get Trump
So bruce wants Trump to filter everything through the hysterical democrat media? Is this so they can present it to you in an unbiased impartial manner?
You win the stupid post of the day bruce!
If a person with down syndrome walked up to me and swore at me, I would just smile and go about my business. I see no reason to waste any time or attention on these fools. Let them talk to themselves. Conservatives know they’re full of sh&@. It would be like taking a full page ad out in the New York Times to explain yourself. Tweeting and facebook are for children. A shovel should have been put into the ground on day one to build that wall. No wall, just tweets about perverts like anderson cooper. It is all a distraction. Foolish.
“Tweeting and facebook are for children.”
I see. You’re just so damn mature. You can lecture the president, James Woods, and all the rest of us from your place of superiority.
I was promised a wall so fast my head would spin. No tweets. No Vaudeville. No kabooki theatre. Wall. No obamacare. Drain swamp. Comey should have been fired day one. Deport millions. Country on fumes. On life support. No time for games.
What has all that have to do with your comment above?
Bush kept his mouth shut for 8 years and they defecated on him daily. Not going to happen with Trump.
And you were never a Trump supporter.
I support the building of a wall. I support the erasure of obongo care. I support mass deportations. I support the firing of any man woman or lizard hired or appointed by Soros/obongo. Everything else is a distraction. 4 years is not a long time. You have to blitzkreig these worthless fu$&s. Steamroll alpha male over them and get things done. Man of few words. Big stick.
You’re a democrat stooge.
Thanks. I started with this a little before Trump became our Potus. It was obvious that the mediots would try to Nixon Trump and any contact with them was dangerous.
He won the election with his Tweets to us, his 62+ million voters.
We do not need for the left wing mediots to tell us what our President is saying, doing and will do.
The answer is simple: boycott the left wing mediots and hammer them like we have with ESPN, Macy’s, Target, Nordstroms and others.
Besides Trump’s Tweets, we have have the Whitehouse.com, and if you are a donor, you get direct emails from President Trump and his staff.
Every time President Trump offers them, his hand in honest communication, they try to bite it off and respond with lies, hostility and rudeness.
The answer is simple for us, we don’t need the left wing mediots.
We have direct news from Trump, his people and Free Republic, and we don’t need the fake news, lies and abuse from them.
“.. Maybe I Should Cancel All Future Press Briefings”
He should. The last several days were ‘in the weeds’ gotcha questions about the ex-FBI chief and arrogantly asked for the most part. The press only wants one thing, that is to bring down the Prez.
Give the WH correspondents a daily written handout on the current issues and have them submit written questions on whatever they want. They love to be on camera.
I noticed today a rather subdued crowd. Trump called them all out.
“We do not need for the left wing mediots to tell us what our President is saying, doing and will do.”
Your whole post is spot on. I just highlighted this one bit.
Times move on. Technology changes many things. For example, I no longer have land lines in my house. Another, I no longer get a newspaper. My point is that after time, some things become outdated.
Trump has made it very clear that the “left wing mediots” are no longer needed. Just like it used to be ABC, NBC, CBS. That was it for TV! Along with newspapers.
In order to bypass the “left wing mediots” Reagan used fireside chats to go directly to the people.
Trump uses many other newer communication vehicles to go directly to the people. The “left wing mediots” are no longer needed.
Trump has over 100 million followers on social media. He circumvents the corrupt MSM and goes directly to the people. Moreover, the MSM must comment on Trump's social media posts increasing the number of viewers. The MSM hates Trump's use of social media because they cannot control or distort it.
Social media is just another communications tool, just like radio and TV supplanted much of print media as the vehicle that people get their news. Tweeting and Facebook are not for children. The users number in the billions worldwide. You are a Luddite living in the past. How old are you?
Trump was elected President, not dictator. The Constitution circumscribes his power. It is why we have checks and balances. You don't seem to have a solid grasp on reality and how our government operates.
our government has been working so well for us. I understand that real well thanks. Washington needs to be bulldozed, not have its d@&$ s&@/ed
I get his newsletter, I’m on his twitter feed, and enjoy the WhiteHouse.gov site...
That is where I find my ‘correct’ news...
Tell that lovely wife of your ‘Happy Mother’s Day’!!!
Why go into that wolf den every day with people who want to destroy you and America.
Oh, so you're one of those Veruca Salt types. Wonderful.
Idiot
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