Posted on 02/16/2017 2:03:07 PM PST by bobk333
Donald Trump entered the East Room on Thursday reeling from a week filled with resignations, withdrawals and continued questions surrounding his campaign's contacts with Russia.
What followed was an hour-long, full-throated attack on Trump's favorite foil: the media.
“Many of our nation's reporters will not tell you the truth,” Trump said.
“The press honestly is out of control,” Trump said.
“The level of dishonesty is out of control,” Trump said.
And that was before he even took a single question!
It was a return for Trump to what worked for him during the course of the 2016 campaign: A circuslike atmosphere in which he uses the media — and his supporters' distrust of the media — as a sort of tackling dummy to re-center the narrative on ground more favorable to him. Trump didn't just run down the media — although he did a lot of that — but he also mocked various outlets, reviewed shows on cable TV that he likes (and doesn't), told reporters to sit down and be quiet, and critiqued the quality of the questions he was being asked.
There was a rawness to his attacks, a personal invective that seemed well beyond the typically antagonistic relationship that exists between the media and the president they cover.
Why do it? Because Trump understands something very important: For his supporters, the media represent everything they dislike about American society. The media is composed, to their mind, of Ivy-League-educated coastal elites who look down their noses at the average person, dismissing them and their views as stupid and ill-informed. For people who feel like their voices weren't and aren't heard in politics — or culture more broadly — the media is the perfect scapegoat.
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you’ve got that right. Trump is in a league all his own. Bigly~!
They're like Pavlov's dogs-- show them Trump and they drool and bark like lunatics.
One of the GRRRRRRRREATEST Americans in the last 200+ years.
WOOOOHOOOOO President Trump! Thank you, citizen-President. Thank you, sir.
Finally, some representation!!
Take note contrary Americans.
The BEST Presser EVER!!! We could have one of these once a week...
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Hang on to your hats, Stephen Miller is hard at work writing Trump’s encore, which will happen this weekend in Florida. I wouldn’t miss the broadcast of this rally for anything.
http://rsbn.tv/president-trump-rally-in-melbourne-fl-2182017/
It was just the kind of news conference President Trump needed to do for his base. I hope he continues to take it to his base, so we get the truth, and so the base will continue to support his efforts.
It was very business like and had a CEO at the helm of the WH, it was not a circus.
The only ones “reeling” in that presser were hysterical media.
Trump is a creature of the Military Industrial Economic complex era as am I, and Trump is in Command of the battlefield, the economy, the world. He understands how things work better than any lifelong politician or crony-organizor-communists. If Trump had taken over Germany instead of Adolf... we would be speaking German but for the best possible reasons, because we would want emulate a great statesman and honorable man.
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