Trump used to pose as his own public relations man
Our very own Nazi windbag worked up the crowd at CPAC today by pissing on the news media some more, in his stupidly banal, repetitive, smirking way.
President Trump intensified his slashing attack on the news media during an appearance before the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, reiterating his charge that “fake news” outlets are “the enemy of the people.”
The opening portion of the president’s free-range, campaign-style speech centered on a declaration of war on the news media — a new foil to replace vanquished political opponents like Hillary Clinton.
“They are very smart, they are very cunning, they are very dishonest,” Mr. Trump said to the delight of the crowd packed into the main ballroom at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center just south of Washington. “It doesn’t represent the people; it never will represent the people.”
What gibberish; it’s not supposed to “represent” the people, it’s supposed to gather and report the news. The people need the news, not least so that they can tell when people like Trump are seizing power.
Mr. Trump, who once posed as his own public relations man to plant news stories in New York tabloids — and spoke frequently with reporters off the record during the campaign — called for an end to the use of “sources,” meaning anonymous sources.
“A few days ago, I called the fake news the enemy of the people because they have no sources — they just make it up,” he said. He added that his “enemy of the people” label applied only to “dishonest” reporters and editors.
Mr. Trump, who suggested revisiting First Amendment protections for the news media during the campaign, refined that attack on Friday, urging his supporters to use their free-speech rights to counter hostile press accounts from outlets like CNN, which he called the “Clinton News Network.”
“They always bring up the First Amendment,” Mr. Trump said of journalists. “Nobody loves it better than me.”
After spending 10 minutes listing the shortcomings of the news media, Mr. Trump said criticism “doesn’t bother me.”
He’s a clown but he’s a dangerous clown.
Trump rode in to power on a wave of political uncertainty, supported by the Homer J Simpsons of the US and Clinton’s ‘deplorables’: surely the costliest and most self-indulgent throwaway line in the history of American politics.
Now all Trump has to do is deliver on his promise to ‘make America great again’: meaning wind back the clock to those 30 years between VJ Day (1945) and the fall of Saigon (1975).
Shouldn’t be too hard for him; all he has to do is get the world to stand still for long enough.
And there was silly, naive old me thinking that representation of the people was the role of a democratically elected government.
Not that Trump and democracy are actually acquainted, of course.
Good point about the role of the press not designed to “represent the people”, but to be the fourth estate. Thanks for all you do, Ophelia. It encourages me.
Note the Stalinesque terminology:
– “enemy of the people”.
I just read a report of Trump using the phrase “The future belongs to us” at the CPAC conference.
Remember the Nazi-style song “Tomorrow belongs to me” from the film Cabaret?
Interesting times.
Immigration officials at a major airport in Trumpistan have reportedly detained Australian children’s author Mem Fox, whose works include ‘Possum Magic’, ‘Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes’, and other suspicious works likely to set anti-subversive alarm bells ringing.
As in Stalin’s Russia, nobody can be too cautious.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-25/mem-fox-detained-at-los-angeles-airport-by-us-officials/8303366
For those of you wishing to flee America due to your becoming a dictorship, you’re welcome here. I only have three spare rooms, you’ll have to fly into Teesside airport (which I don’t recommend) and you’ll have to contend for living space with my cat, which is certain to shorten your life. Oh, and literally anyone from literally anywhere else is just that little bit more welcome than you are, sorry.
The worst part is that the sanctions on living at my house are probably the most strict Britain has to offer while you guys already treated us all like criminals well before Trump happened.
Omar @ 5
Yes, I noticed that. What were members of America’s border Gestapo thinking? Perhaps they’re racially profiling elderly White women now, or did they think that Fox would become an illegal immigrant? She has visited the US many times.
So for once Fox is the news, rather than inventing it.