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Cont: The Trump Presidency X: 10-10 'til we do it again

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Captain_Swoop said:
"There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly. That will do much to put out the flame..."
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I wonder how much he actually wants this sort of violence to occur. Does he not care? Or is it a deliberate call to action against journalists and news organisations?
 
A day after the biggest hate-crime in US history, the President calls the Press the Enemy?
I hope people remember his priorities.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
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"There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly. That will do much to put out the flame..."

"....of Anger and Outrage and we will then be able to bring all sides together in Peace and Harmony. Fake News Must End!"
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I agree with this part of his statement.

There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news.

I don't believe the news media is the "true enemy of the people" although in order to bolster readership and ratings they do not mind fanning the "flame of anger and outrage". In my opinion this applies to CNN, Fox , MSNBC and may others...

I think the internet has done much more to fan the flames. The amount of hatred and vitriol from people of many different persuasions is plain to see.
And quickly reinforced by others (many anonymous) of the same belief.

The President tweeting stupid things like this also helps to fan the flames.
 
So, in the month in which a journalist was murdered by a regime with ties to Trump, and who Trump tried to help cover for, and a week after Trump praised violence against a reporter, and within a week of people being inspired to murder people by Trump's calls to violence and divisive rhetoric, Trump describes journalists using exactly the same divisive rhetoric and blames them for the division and violence.
 
9 hours of ‘Executive Time’: Trump’s unstructured days define his presidency

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The president’s schedule shows huge swaths of his day unplanned, allowing his whims and momentary interests to drive White House business.

President Donald Trump had about three times as much free time planned for last Tuesday as work time, according to his private schedule. The president was slated for more than nine hours of “Executive Time,” a euphemism for the unstructured time Trump spends tweeting, phoning friends and watching television. Official meetings, policy briefings and public appearances — traditionally the daily work of being president — consumed just over three hours of his day.
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Somewhere on the long list of reasons that Trump is entirely unfit for the job is his disinterest in doing it.
 
Aridas said:
Ehh. This is a very minor thing, honestly. He's just leaving a mess for someone else to take care of because of his own laziness and apathy. One that could be taken care of in 5 seconds or less by the next person to be there. At least this particular thing isn't deeply harmful to many, many people. And yes, that is an absurdly pathetic standard to be judging a US President's criticisms by.
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Maybe, or maybe it's one of those little things that gives a window into how someone truly thinks.
 
Whoever wins next week. Trump will still be a bad person and a bad executive. Nothing anytime soon will change that.
 
BobTheCoward said:
Whoever wins next week. Trump will still be a bad person and a bad executive. Nothing anytime soon will change that.
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It'a been said in the past that Trump thinks he can run his administration like one of his businesses, but he has never been a CEO, answerable to a Board of Directors, which is closer to the structure of the government. At the moment, his "Board" is dominated by sycophants who won't tell him that he's running the "business" into the ground. Replacing some of these "board members" with different people could have an impact.
 
newyorkguy said:
The craziest part of all this is, so many people warned us, if Trump doesn't tone down the rhetoric, people are going to die. It's actually begun to happen yet people seem strangely blase about it. I mean everybody: the media, Democrats, you, me. :confused:
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I'm waiting for Trump to start blaming the synagogue for helping refugees. Like how it was CNN's fault it was getting bombs mailed to it.
 
WilliamSeger said:
To be fair -- or at least not to accuse all Trump supporters of being that stupid -- we see trumpers on here all the time who know that Trump spews bunk but just don't care. I'm pretty sure many will go wobbly if they ever perceive him to be a political liability to their "conservative movement" rather than an asset. There is some small chance that some trumpers are smart enough to eventually realize that they are also hurt by Republican policies and mostly getting smoke up their asses in return for their support, but I wouldn't count on that; mostly, they'll support whatever comes after trumpism as long as it's anti-liberal and anti-Democrats.
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It was always a selling point, the whole "Take him seriously but not literally". His supporters always knew he was saying a lot of crap, they just figured they could separate his real policies from the BS.
 
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"Had a very good conversation with the newly elected President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, who won his race by a substantial margin. We agreed that Brazil and the United States will work closely together on Trade, Military and everything else! Excellent call, wished him congrats!"
 
Armitage72 said:
It'a been said in the past that Trump thinks he can run his administration like one of his businesses, but he has never been a CEO, answerable to a Board of Directors, which is closer to the structure of the government. At the moment, his "Board" is dominated by sycophants who won't tell him that he's running the "business" into the ground. Replacing some of these "board members" with different people could have an impact.
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Truth be told I think this is a factor that is overlooked and undervalued a lot when we judge Presidents; the ability to pick and good cabinet, to walk that fine line between obstructionist that keeps you from getting anything done and sycophant who won't tell you when you are going to far.

Trump is most certainly very, very low on that scale. Outside of Mathis (and I doubt Trump picked him for any of his qualities and only saw him as Loud, Angry, Conservative White Guy) he's scoring a zero across the board.

Surrounding himself with better people might not make Trump a "better" President by whatever metric one wants to use, but it would certainly make him a less damaging one.
 
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