The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making

He’s exploring opportunity with Fox News? Odd; I thought he was leaving the Trump administration.

^This.

All the suggestions about what “the press corps” should do (walk out; turn their backs; stare in silence, etc.) ignore the reality that at Trump White House briefings, half or so of “the press corps” are ardent Trump supporters.

So it’s more productive to discuss options that could be taken by the other half who are genuine journalists. I’m liking the “ask the same question that Trump just refused to answer from another reporter” idea. Also, fact-checking Trump: when Trump gives one reporter a lie as an answer, the next one up should be ready to refute the lie with some good sources. (Are they allowed to have any kind of Internet access in there? Or are their phones locked up somewhere?)

Anyway, the further reality shouldn’t be forgotten: even those who are actual journalists and thus interested in holding Trump accountable, are also interested in the fortunes of their own employers (not to mention their own careers). Full coordination in holding Trump’s or SHS’s feet to the fire, however much we might like to see it, is probably unlikely.

Why is it that conservatives are so good at creating little verbal gems like “fake news” or “death panels” that resonate with voters? The fake news phrase has now even spread to foreign dictators.

Palin and Trump appear to be clueless about policy issues, history, technology, or much of anything else, but they seem to find things that their followers can relate to.

Unfortunately, I believe you are right. But damn, I would love to see somebody ask SHS about the doctored video.

Simple. Their followers are morons just like they are. They speak the same language.

It’s the “mean girl” gene. Either you are born with it or you’re not.

Was it a right winger who came up with “fake news”? The way I remember it, the term was coined for the crap that Russia was flooding social media with to influence the election. Trump just co-opted it to mean “news I don’t like”.

I propose that we make that one journalist Gilbert Gottfried.

According to this, the term was first used in that sense by First Draft, "a project of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

It certainly SOUNDS like a trick of dastardly Harvard Men.

— Uke, Yale ‘82

Germany has a very similar term, “Lügenpresse”. Go ahead, take a wild guess where it comes from. :slight_smile:

Yale?

Wall Street Journal report on Trump’s personal involvement in the hush money to Stormy Daniels and the National Enquirer coverup.

Is he one of them Aristocrats?

Trump is dangerous, but he’s not a ‘killer’. Murdering people isn’t his game. He doesn’t want to rule the world because he actually believes he can remake the world in his image. In fact, I suspect he sometimes wonders how the hell he got here. He ran for president because he’s a snake oils salesman who likes to see and hear his name every waking minute of every day. He also enjoys being a fake billionaire and his fake billionaire lifestyle. He’s dangerous because somewhere along the way to being president, his family and friends committed crimes and he tried to cover it up, and now he’s looking at jail time. He’ll do anything to survive, even if it means destroying the country’s political and legal norms. But all of that being said, Trump isn’t a killer.

The killers are the Christian warriors, and they’re in abundance.

Trump loyalist Matthew Whittaker was counseling White House on investigating Clinton

I thought Trump said today that he doesn’t know this guy.

‘The guardrails are off’: Trump takes aggressive moves he resisted before elections

I was going to post this, but WaPo said it well. If you thought he was out of control before, you ain’t seen nuttin’ yet.

I may have to break down and subscribe to the Washington Post. On the other hand, just excerpts from their articles posted here at the Dope can make me crazy, so why pay for even more torture? :frowning:

To support them and their journalism. Ink costs money. :smiley:

Y’know, THAT’S a good reason: support. <subscribes>