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Trump faces backlash for celebrating layoffs at The Atlantic, calling it 'Great News'
Fox News ^ | May 26 2020 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn

Posted on 05/26/2020 11:04:55 PM PDT by knighthawk

President Trump is facing intense backlash for celebrating the recent layoffs that took place at the liberal magazine The Atlantic.

Last week, The Atlantic became the latest of several news outlets that have cut its staff amid the coronavirus pandemic, detailing in a memo to staff that 68 of their colleagues were let go, resulting in a cut of roughly 17 percent of all of the magazine's employees.

Roughly 40 million Americans have lost their jobs since the beginning of the pandemic. On Tuesday night, Trump touted the layoffs from the magazine whose coverage has been largely critical of the president.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: layoff; media; msm; theatlantic; trump
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1 posted on 05/26/2020 11:04:55 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

Intense backlash? What a joke. How could it get more intense?


2 posted on 05/26/2020 11:08:04 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: knighthawk

First, name something he DOESN’T face ‘backlash’ over.


3 posted on 05/26/2020 11:10:22 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: knighthawk

Backlash?

B. S.


4 posted on 05/26/2020 11:14:27 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Some of the folks around these parts have been sniffing super flu.)
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To: Bullish

and he’s right to criticise Twitter:

TWEET: Jonathan Levine
This person is the “head of site integrity” at Twitter
26 May 2020

TWEET: Yoel Roth
I’m just saying, we fly over those states that voted for a racist tangerine for a reason
11/8/16
READ ON
https://twitter.com/LevineJonathan/status/1265457578215124995


5 posted on 05/26/2020 11:16:32 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: knighthawk
The Atlantic has been destined to the ash heap of history for years. The magazine is using COVID-19 as an excuse to speed up the layoffs.
6 posted on 05/26/2020 11:18:43 PM PDT by WASCWatch
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To: DoughtyOne

Here’s the thing...if the Atlantic was writing great stuff....people would be asking for it, and advertising would be paying all the bills. They produce marginal stuff, and probably haven’t been a four-star piece in a full decade. For those who remain with a job....you’d best go and start getting active, or you will be next.


7 posted on 05/26/2020 11:19:37 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: WASCWatch

If “The Atlantic” had been a ship, it would have sunk to the bottom of the media Bermuda Triangle years ago. Once it was half decent. In the last couple of years, it has become leftist garbage and full of Trump haters.

So to “The SS Atlantic”, Bon Voyage. Here, have a couple more lead anchors as going away gifts.


8 posted on 05/26/2020 11:21:23 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Steely Tom

Without even looking, I feel sure it’s from the Associated Press.
There is not l “intense backlash” from anybody apart from the fake news media and their Dem masters.


9 posted on 05/26/2020 11:23:23 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: knighthawk

Did they mean eyelash, not backlash?


10 posted on 05/26/2020 11:23:44 PM PDT by Defiant (I hope the Russians trick me into voting for Trump again in 2020.)
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To: WASCWatch

“The magazine is using COVID-19 as an excuse to speed up the layoffs”

Well at least China Virus was good for something. Anything that hurts leftards, Im all for it.


11 posted on 05/26/2020 11:25:05 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberal employees at every election since 2008 because I enjoy seeing them cry)
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To: MAGAthon

Levine

Roth


12 posted on 05/26/2020 11:25:43 PM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: knighthawk

The 2020 election should be a breeze for President Trump, but he’s driving some voters away with his tweets. He already has his base. I know I’m voting for him. Why needlessly risk losing moderates and independents over some tweets? A change in tone is long overdue but sadly unlikely at this point.


13 posted on 05/26/2020 11:26:21 PM PDT by CitizenUSA (Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.)
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To: knighthawk
On Tuesday night, Trump touted the layoffs from the magazine whose coverage has been largely critical of the president.

“Largely critical” huh?
Chuckle.
If you call 100% anti Trump hate as “largely critical” that is.

14 posted on 05/26/2020 11:29:12 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: knighthawk

             


15 posted on 05/26/2020 11:29:38 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: Steely Tom

Paul Ryan’s bozos again. What backlash? Those peckerheads just called Trump “unmanly” this last weekend, and there’s not a word about that in this trough of lies.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/donald-trump-the-most-unmanly-president/612031/


16 posted on 05/26/2020 11:32:51 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: CitizenUSA
The 2020 election should be a breeze for President Trump, but he’s driving some voters away with his tweets.

There is not a single Trump voter that I know who doesn't hate The Atlantic. There may be some, sure. Just haven’t met them yet.

17 posted on 05/26/2020 11:33:08 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: MAGAthon

should have noted Jonathan (Jon) Levine is from NY Post.


18 posted on 05/26/2020 11:33:28 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: CitizenUSA

Is that you, General Kelly?


19 posted on 05/26/2020 11:39:30 PM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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To: CitizenUSA

You think maybe he knows what he’s doing?


20 posted on 05/26/2020 11:39:38 PM PDT by thoughtomator (here comes the switch to Hillary)
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