WHY does Trump have media press conferences..?
They’re fun, as Trump beats them up, sure, but...Trump has twitter and he wields it like an H-bomb.
From the tone I saw from the media questioners, it’s clear to me that REALITY has not caught up with them:
TRUMP DOES NOT **NEED** THEM.
I want to see them more fauning, I want to see them tread much more lightly. For now they seem not to understand their tenuous position.
They need to sit on the floor or something like that.
Because they represent a golden opportunity for the President to get his messaging out to the People directly, without the Media distorting what he says.
The Media can proceed to smear the President both before and after these events, but during them, the President has a captive audience, and even the Media has to shut up while he's talking.
Didn't you see how much yesterday's presser benefited the President? Didn't you notice how it allowed him to air his grievances with them and connect directly with the American people?
It was a beautiful thing to watch, and the President very effectively pointed out the Media's hypocrisy and double standard, using specific, irrefutable examples.
One such example was the anecdote about Hillary getting debate questions beforehand, and the President was spot on when he reminded the Media how they never even made an issue of it, whereas if he had been privy to such an advantage, it would have been a scandal of mammoth proportions broadcast 24/7/365.
Using that and other salient examples, the President nailed the Media to the wall, forcefully driving home the fact that they were and are a bunch of disingenuous hypocrites.
And then he twisted the knife a few times by reminding them all that the American people "get it", and are completely aware of the Media's shenanigans. He even pointed out how the Favorability Rating of the press was even lower than that of Congress!
The President also (again correctly) pointed out the overtly hostile, hateful, and unbalanced tone routinely maintained by outlets such as CNN.
The President's rebuke was stiff, effective, and richly deserved, and you can rest assured that the American people enjoyed it every bit as much as the Media didn't.
The President totally pwned these Media punks—make no mistake—but even more amazingly, he was conducting a charm offensive at the same time.
It was an incredible thing to see, and as long as this administration keeps its nose clean, so to speak, the Enemedia can anticipate being taken out to the woodshed repeatedly, until such time as a semblance of balance begins to appear.
To summarize: the President mopped the floor with these hypocritical clowns and made them look like the unfair, slanted fools that they truly are. It was a masterful performance, perfectly suited in both sty;e and tone to the era that we now live in.
If this press conference was any indication, the Press is in for a very rough ride over the next several years, because in an hour's time, the President completely obliterated the Media's Russian boogeyman canard, and at the same time excoriated them for their "fake news" and, quite simply, failing to do their jobs.
And what's happening, overwhelmingly, just like with Reagan, is that the citizenry is beginning to steadily align itself with the President and his administration, and against the Establishment, which of course includes the Media almost in its entirety.
Oh, there will always be a segment of die-hard nutcases among the minority population and the rabid ideologues, but the People are going to continue to drift towards the President by and large, as he learns how to use the "bully pulpit" ever more effectively.
This is why the Left is so hysterical, and it's also why the Left is bleeding support and alienating the common man ever more profoundly.
Combine this effort on the President's part with the ridiculous scenes of anarchy in the streets, violence against everyday Americans, unhinged protesters carrying vile signs, dressing like pussies, and waving foreign flags, and it's becoming very clear precisely who the real fascists and extremists are.
Faced with such start contrasts, who do you think the People are going to get behind?
The Establishment and Media (but I repeat myself) are losing. The Revolution, and the President who has become its standard-bearer, is winning.
This is a brutal game that both sides are playing, but I honestly don't think that things are going to end up the way the Democrats and the Establishment are envisioning.
The People have awoken, and they're not going back to sleep anytime soon.
The Left is so utterly bankrupt morally, so devoid of constructive ideas, and in such bitter, incredulous denial about their electoral repudiation, that the only thing they can be relied upon to do is to hysterically hasten their own demise.
It's going to be an ugly, cringe-worthy process, to be sure, and one which will infuriate and alienate many decent everyday Americans, but the positive end result will be that the Democrat party will be relegated to minority status for decades to come.
All that Revolution has to do is fiercely but calmly fight the good fight, defend this administration, and advocate for its constructive policies.
And the Loony Left will, for the most part, see to their own destruction by virtue of the fact that they will become despised by an overwhelming share of the American public.
Best. Revolution. Ever.
I am waiting for Trump to growl, “Now get outta here! If you can’t be civil, go! If you can’t go peacefully, I’ll have the Secret Service help you go.