tRump is completely unhinged. Completely. More so than before (if “unhinged” can be a comparative term).
I was thinking of a different strategy for dealing with Trump.
The White House has ruled that Trump’s tweets are official statements.
Therefore, the news should treat them as such.
When covering tweets by Trump, state quite neutrally,
“Here are official statements from the White House.”
Then display them on the screen, with no adornment.
And include all repetitions with misspellings—after all, they are ALL official statements.
Then don’t even comment. Leave that for other shows.
Love it!
TPM could definitely lead the way—and I recommend it!
Remember, Kushner representing the Trump Campaign, made a deal with these assholes. And also:
David Smith, the executive chairman of Sinclair Broadcast Group, said he dislikes and fundamentally distrusts the print media, which he believes “serves no real purpose.” In emails to New York, Smith said that print — as in newspapers and magazines — is a reality-distorting tool of leftists. Print media, he said, has “no credibility” and no relevance.
Gotta walk the pups, now.
It is increasingly clear that this attack on democracy began in Moscow, and is global in nature.
It ends when we do to Putin what Putin did to us, and take him out. His economy is smaller than Canada’s. Hit him online, hit him in the economy, and he falls. Just another tinhorn dictator.
When we’re all upset about Trump, let’s not take our eyes off what needs to be the end game.
Hardly heartened by the fact that of scores of Sinclair stations, so far only one has taken this stance. This is the way democracy slowly erodes.
I’m hearing a sort of high pitched almost out of range of hearing whistling sound when I read that quote…hmmmmmmm…
The ATT merger folks are NOT even mentioning the political angle of Trump trying to force them spin off CNN to some sympathetic pal before OKing the merger. But he sure goes after them like no president should.
This is the way democracy slowly erodes is systematically dismembered while everyone watches on in horror too stunned to do anything until it’s too late.
This is precisely what it looks like when one side rescinds the social contract because they’ve come to view it as an inconvenience.
Right. How many billions of dollar of hurt did Trump cause Amazon?
There’s no precedent in all U.S. history for Trump’s outrages and excesses.
So Trump doesn’t know that some of Sinclair stations are NBC affiliates. Go ahead Trump praise Sinclair Mr. Twitter you’re only adding to the narrative that Sinclair is pro-Trump.
As a Madisonian, I heartily approve of WMSN’s actions! I wonder how much pressure they’re getting now.
I really love Madison…
Following up on my earlier post, given that Trump’s tweets are official statements, what does it mean when the government of the United States is making factually incorrect, disprovable statements about a private corporation? Surely this has legal ramifications.
Let’s take this further. If I say, “O. J. Simpson is a murderer”—even if I tweet it, I doubt there will be the slightest legal flutter.
What if Trump tweets that Obama lied in regards to some treaty negotiations, to come up with a very plausible example?
The Department of Justice on Monday told a federal district court judge In Washington, D.C. that Donald Trump’s tweets are “official statements of the President of the United States.”
They are usually different from their boss’s tweets.
Point taken, but what is the legal distinction? What is an “official statement of the President”, exactly?
If the official statement is “We are going to bomb North Korea tomorrow if Fat Ugly Kim fails to comply”, that means something…
It would be interesting to know if Trump and his crime family own stock in Sinclair and Fox, and to what degree the value of their shares are affected by his tweets and other pronouncements. The same goes for other companies in other industries, but he sure seems focused on the media - and I bet it’s not just for more positive coverage, but for profit, too.
In my mind’s eye, I see all of us collectively like deer in the headlights, so shocked by events we don’t even know which way to move.
Because we are constantly and perpetually bombarded with situations that we have never seen before, and, even worse, situations we could never, ever, ever have conceived of, even in the wildest, cheesiest fiction thriller.
It’s like I have permanent adrenalin overload.