I am picturing a day about 4 years from now when Trump wants to hold a press conference to announce he is taking over day to day control of his businesses again and nobody shows up.
After all, isn’t this the same media that made Trump a household name?
You have a great point. The only problem is that what’s left would be “Cheeto-Pravda”.
Q: Can the major news organizations report on the happenings while totally and completely shutting down 45? Can the networks cut off all broadcasts of all speeches and only report recaps of text scrolled across the screen?
Are you kidding? If massive numbers of journalists were jailed by the Trump lads, and only Fox News was allowed to report on TV, with Brietbart allowed to publish on the web, they would LOVE IT.
They would revel in being the official mouthpiece for a totalitarian dictatorship, and would report exactly what Trump told them to.
FAKE NEWS! FAKE NEWS! Anything bad about Dear Leader is FAKE NEWS.
The US is really just a stone’s throw away from being a wealthier, nuclear armed North Korea.
Jonathan and I discussed and think Elections can be an appropriate home. Let’s try again.
Moved back from Pit to Elections.
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Yep. Trump is beginning to look like President Nehemiah Scudder. Good Lord, how I wish I were kidding!
That explains why the BBC were so nasty about him earlier this evening.
The press got played big time. They bought the whole briefing room business hook, line, and sinker and are now dealing with the repercussions of their own protests… glorious.
Oh well, CNN is #fake news anyway.
Nah, I think Trump is more like Saparmurat Niyazov. I wonder what our new month and day names will be?
(I’m thinking something like Montrump, Tuestrump, Wednestrump and Septemtrump, Octobtrump, Novemtrump. Nobody renames days better than him!)
Reporters from NYT, BuzzFeed, CNN, the Los Angeles Times and Politico were excluded. Conservative outlets Breitbart News, One America News Network and the Washington Times were included. Time magazine and the AP boycotted in solidarity.
“Nothing like this has ever happened at the White House in our long history of covering multiple administrations of different parties,” Dean Baquet, the executive editor of The Times, said in a statement. “We strongly protest the exclusion of The New York Times and the other news organizations. Free media access to a transparent government is obviously of crucial national interest.”
FLASHBACK to December when Sean Spicer said the Trump White House couldn’t “ban” outlets from covering the government: “That’s what makes a democracy a democracy versus a dictatorship.”
Links lead nowhere. When come back, bring sources.
Image posted on 4chan as a cite…
Is it too soon to ask if 45 will be invited to the annual White House press corps dinner?
From another thread:
No, he knows they’ll report on it. But now this story swamps the potentially more damaging news about conversations between Priebus and the FBI that would violate department rules. It’s not stupidity.
They dared to report libelous facts that portrayed Trump in a derogatory, yet completely accurate way?
It’s a reference to this story (Link to NPR.)
Hah! When I was a kid, we lived in Dale City, Virginia. It seemed every street there had “dale” in its name. We kids even made a word game out of it, similar to “McDonald’s-speak”:
That’s what Trump thinks both language and being president are: games. He’s losing at both, though. Sadly, he’s doing irreparable harm on his way out of the playhouse, er, White House.
Can someone clue me in on this “45” business, please. (Not sure I want that on my search history)
Forty-fifth President. Done to avoid using Cheeto’s real name.
