Discussion: Trump Signals Adversarial Relationship With Press To Continue After Swearing-In

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Maybe this is the kick in the ass they need to actually start doing their job again?

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Oooh whats he hiding in that thar hotel? Could it be bus loads of fallen women and truck loads of rubber sheets?

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OF COURSE, he will continue to ‘bash’ them. Trump needs an enemy…real or not. He has decided that Putin and Bibi are friends so he has to attack an American institution to show his bona fides.

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#Sickday

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Just so we know you won’t pivot from being the combover colon, it’s all good

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Thomas Jefferson:

“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.”

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another deflection technique.

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in respect of the privacy of our guests,”

Human Shields

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Trump said months ago that Pence would be running the country. Where is the reporting on what Pence is up to?

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And the press says:

“Please, sir, may we have another; please, sir, may we have another…”

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“Why, there’s Breitbart, and Der Breitbarter, and Sputnik News, and RT, and Potomacan Pravda, and Trump Is The Greatest Liberty Bugle, and Obama The Poopy-Pants Globe. How are we supposed to fit in NBC, CBS, and ABC?”

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Five bucks says that his inaugural speech will reflect the least effort possible [1], and consist almost entirely of various restatements of “F the press and everyone who didn’t vote for me.”


[1] As will every single thing he ever does in office.

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(Robert Reich) Trump’s Seven Techniques to Control the Media

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Well the last president who went into office with an adversarial relationship with the press was Richard Nixon. That should be a warning but PeePee doesn’t think he has to worry about anything or anyone apparently. He should rethink:

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Had stock options in paper companies —

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after the coronation, they are going to charge the press for admission.

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Yeah I wish Reich had thought about some of this before he spent the entire primary telling young voters to “vote their souls.”

You vote with your brain, Robert, not your fucking soul - that’s what the religious right does.

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Handlers say …

                RELEASE THE DOGS !
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If only there was a way to cover the news without being in the White House briefing room and giving him the direct attention he feeds on.

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