I am very tired of “if Obama did that” stuff. We all know when your guy does something it’s OK but not when the other team’s guy does it.
The “If Obama did it” stuff isn’t about how the other side’s partisans react. It’s about how the media would react. CNN would have it on a 24 hour loop. The NYT would devote front page articles and 10,000 word think pieces to it.
Many Americans are not the President of the United States. Maybe he thought the relevant Kansas City was in the state of Kansas. But he shouldn’t have.
Reminds me of when the dolt bragged about talking to the President of Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria. The moron didn’t know that the President of Puerto Rico is non other than Donald J. Trump.
(As an aside, note that I mentioned Hurricane Maria above. I honestly couldn’t remember the name of the relatively recent hurricane that devastated PR. Rather than type the wrong name, I took two seconds to search it. Why can’t POTUS do that?)
Bill Mahar said something about this in his “New Rules” segment on Friday. Remember when Hillary Clinton stumbled while getting into a van and the media reported her having a stroke and near death. But Trump can stumble over his own tongue and “that’s just Trump being Trump”. Don’t give that crap about the “liberal media”. They ain’t liberal.
Hell, he doesn’t even have to. What he should be doing (and what I’m guessing is common), is have a social media manager to handle this kind of thing. All he has to do is say ‘Pat, put out a tweet congratulating the Chiefs’ and Pat can write the tweet, make sure it’s coherent, spelled properly, no glaring errors etc. Not only would that make everything a lot smoother for him, he’d have someone to fire, or at least blame, any time he wasn’t happy about something on social media.
Can you imagine if an intern wrote this tweet for him. He’d be trashing that person up and down Fox for the next 24 hours. You’d think he’d prefer doing that than taking the heat himself every time this happens.
In fact, my understanding is that when one of his underlings does Tweet on Trump’s behalf, the underling takes care to make the same kinds of errors that Trump would have made.
Everyone who bitched about NFL players being disrespectful by kneeling during the anthem better step the fuck up and tell us how they feel about Trump acting this way.
Trump being dumb is really the least of his problems. It’s his mental illnesses such as being a Narcissist are much more of a problem. If you know what the DSM is you can probably find 5 or more mental illnesses in there that Trump has.
Some of the individual journalists making up that “media” are liberal. But the corporations that own them are making more money in the Trump era than they did pre-Trump. Ratings and ad rates are up.
They don’t want that to go away.
They don’t want Trump to go away. Even progressive hosts and reporters must have mixed feelings about the prospect. MSNBC used to offer fewer hours of programming; remember when Maddow would, at 10pm on Fridays, throw to “and now, prison” (introducing the large block of time devoted to prison-documentaries)? That could come back, if fewer people are interested in political news.
A lot of journalists have a big stake in having Trump remain in office. Some of them may not even have allowed themselves to realize how big a stake.
I have had this thought as well. No matter who the next Democratic President ends up being, it’s going to be boring for the media whereas Trump can be counted on to say and do ridiculous shit constantly. Why are we looking forward to the State of the Union? Because we know Trump is going to throw a big baby-like temper tantrum in front of the whole country and that is going to be very entertaining! However, that is not the metric by which a President should be measured, even if there is money on the line.
The media sometimes forgets how Trump has branded them The Enemy of The People and now that Trump has been granted unlimited executive power by the Senate, we’ll see if he decides to force a different narrative. How good for the ratings is a reporter getting thrown in jail or murdered by an angry mob?
Trump counts on the media’s lack of solidarity when he (or his administration) exclude certain reporters who are asking tough questions. While it may only be temporary, in the U.K. things were handle quite a bit differently.