Discussion: This Is How Trump Reportedly Decides To Ban Journalists From His Events

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However, a “Ten” could piss on his shoes and still get credentials.

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If he’d ban ALL reporters from his events, we wouldn’t have to worry about him any more.

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“She sees the tantrums, and there are tantrums,” an anonymous source who’s been with both Trump and Hicks told GQ. “He reads something he doesn’t like by a reporter, and it’s like, ‘This motherfucker! All right, fine. Hope?’ He circles it. ‘This guy’s banned! He’s banned for a while.’ That’s exactly how it works.”

Whoever takes up that thankless task needs to make sure that practice is stopped. One of the ‘attractions’ of the Trump campaign is that no one is never really certain what’s he going to say and at what time. If I’m this guy, this guy or whoever is stupid enough to take this job, ‘warts and all’ needs to be the standard practice starting today or else I’m still on the sidelines.

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I’m sure he uses time-tested techniques suited to his great intellectual capacity in order to make decisions about journalists covering his campaign, probably the same techniques he uses for all decisions of his campaign, such as:
Eeny-meeny-miney-moe
Spin the bottle
Rock, paper, scissors
Mumbley-peg
Magic Eight-Ball (Katrina Pierson SWEARS by this one!)
Ouija board (just don’t use it in front of the Christianists!)

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This is how he finds his wives too. Staff gives him Google Images print-outs and he circles them and says, “This one, not that one.”

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Aw, isn’t that (ca)precious.

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Trying to imagine how this approach would carry over to the Situation Room.

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Typical. Trump decides how to ban reporters while the RNC is figuring out how to ban Trump.

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The man is totally ignorant of why the Founders deemed a free press so important to a free society that they enshrined this freedom in the very first Amendment. If he wants not to read anything bad about himself he can always run in Russia against Putin to be the next Putin… should he survive the campaign.

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Trump would probably be in out-patient treatment (and maybe not) if it were not for the structure of the Republican Party.

  • The Winner-Take-All Primaries

  • The dozen or so candidates who divided the non-krazy vote, enabling Trump to consolidate krazy

  • The GOP’s communication arm (the MSM), complete with butterknife questions and free $2 billion-worth of advertising and communication access

  • The Feckless jumping on board after the Indiana Primary of nearly the entire GOP, with full knowledge of the kind of man Trump is

Talking about how horrible a candidate Trump is is tantamount to a Russian in 1941 complaining that Stalin was a horrible leader. In both the cases of Trump and Stalin, there are pillars of power which attach to these men. Stalin’s were obvious…but Trump has successfully hijacked the Republican Party. It now belongs entirely to him. He knows this and he knows this because, in his lizard brain, he intuits the ways and mechanisms in which people are bound to the social structures they get their paychecks from**…in this case the social structures of the GOP. These people would literally sacrifice their children so as to maintain the flow of monthly checks to their checking accounts. You want to know what Reince Priebus “wants”? Ask from whence and for what he gets paid.

  • The chances of Trump being the GOP Nominee are still well over 80%.

  • Once Trump becomes the Nominee, the MSM is commercially bound to make him as equivalent as possible to Hillary Clinton. The proof of the latter assertion is the totally misleading recurrent theme of the MSM that both Hillary and Trump “both have high negatives”. I didn’t particularly like a saxophonist I was in a band with in 1977, so he still has “high negatives” with me. Trump also has “high negatives” with me. The MSM never gets into the substantive differences of Trump and Hillary “negatives”, nor do they dare admit that Hillary’s are so much the product of their selective “reporting”.

** A fossil employee can read about “Climate Change” very conscientiously until the monthly $10,000.00 check comes in…then it’s “Oh yes…Someday in the future we will be able to tackle the problem”

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Nixon did something similiar, except he saved lots of time by assuming they were ALL motherfuckers from the git-go.

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Trump then circles and annotates things he does and does not like so that scans of the marked-up reports can be sent back to the journalist.

Most of these reports are annotated with the words “See. Not so short.” and sent to SPY magazine founder E. Graydon Carter.

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Hmmmmmm… could a political cartoonist please draw the picture of Trump dressed in King George’s royal outfit? This is like cultural throwback hour for the 17th Century.

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Yeah, good luck turning this around, Manafort. The whole thing’s a mess, from the top down.

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Using “tantrum” like it’s a bad thing.

And, as usual, this kind of arbitrary, vindictive behavior plays just fine with his base. It’s the kind of thing they love him for. Sane people, on the other hand.

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Oddly enough, the GQ profile did not feature a single quote from Hicks herself; instead, the campaign elected to have Trump speak about Hicks while the press secretary sat in the room silently.

This should go over really well with the women-folk. Not a misogynistic bone in his body.

And remind me again why he needs an “inner circle”?

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‘This motherfucker! All right, fine. Hope?’ ‘ @manhattan123’s banned! He’s banned for a while.’

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Journalists with integrity should make a contest out it - ‘I’ve been banned more than you! I win!’

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