Right around the corner: Fascism
Hey gang, this is good news!
See, a smart man would never, ever spar with, denigrate, bitch about or slow walk the press or our intelligence agencies. 'Course not being smart at all, the Trumpenfueher is digging his own hole since as more and more stories of sordid activities, Russky loans, bad business practices creep out of the agencies, the press will jump on ANY story no matter if it’s factual, to strike back at the orange dummy. Just watch as both entities start vying to be the one who takes down the clown!
“They are the opposition party. I want 'em out of the building. We are taking back the press room.”
Slouching towards totalitarianism.
140 characters at a time.
It’s a great idea. Instead of a flock of courtiers looking for a sound bite for the evening news, or fawning on the celebrity-in-chief, they can get out on the street and start reporting real stories–instead of playing stenographer.
Please proceed, PEOTUS.
Piss off the press. Piss them off bigly. Do so at your peril. They press will bite back. Lord these people are stupid. And with the press room itself…Ivanka’s secret office? Melania’s makeup room?
Like the only reserved seat at the recent prop-fest, the White House press room will be reserved for Breitbart News, as well as selected Fox personalities, “reporters” from The Crusader and their dates. This will assure Comrade Coir Coif’s adulation sessions won’t be interrupted with, you know, questions.
There’s no room for his staff to clap and cheer when he says words.
I think they’re counting on the press to be cowed by this for access purposes. If history repeats, it just might work. Pissing off the intelligence community is far worse.
So the implication is that the press room is not spacious enough, since this is such a newsworthy administration. They’ll build the press a yuuuuge room, let in all the Breitbarts of the media world, and ignore questions from every reporter they suspect will actually ask a serious question.
And the leaks, you forgot the leaks. So any staffer pulling a government salary can now get a second job reporting to and getting paid by any news organization. Seminars on how to hide your second income coming soon.
I like to think the pissed off intelligence would find a pissed off press more receptive to tidbits of innuendo, trails of bread crumbs. Real journalists will (if they still exist) go for the gold even if it’s a trickle not a stream.
“Is a room that has forty-nine seats adequate?” Spicer said as quoted in the report. “Is there an opportunity to potentially allow more members of the media to be part of this? That’s something we’re discussing.”
As always, the cowardly bully’s first response when caught in his underhanded dealings is to claim some innocent motive. The press room is not big enough.
Behold The Louis XIV Presidency. The Con Man Russian Stooge who will try to insulate himself from everyone but his sycophants. As he has been able to do his entire working life.
Trump will have to ban the press. The revelation and confirmation of his total lack of Presidential suitability, lack of basic governance, domestic and international knowledge, and inability to answer even basic simple questions would be devastating.
I hope Trump and his fluffers keep it up, as they’ll never, ever win going against the press!
“Never argue with a man who buys ink by the barrel”
"Never argue with someone who buys ink by the barrel” is a popular saying in politics that means don’t argue with the press (especially newspapers), who can publicize an opinion like no one else can. The phrase is somewhat dated—newspapers are not as important as they once were, and online newspapers don’t use ink.
The phrase is cited in print from 1964, where it was credited to former Indiana Congressman Charles Bruce Brownson (1914-1988). The earliest recorded uses of the phrase come from several Indiana politicians.
Perhaps the former press room is where they will locate Melania’s “glam room”
Every dipshit move like this shaves support from Drumpf. In 6 months his support will be in the teens.
I seem to recall reports of the GWB admin considering the same thing?