One habit Trump says he will keep as president: tweeting

Oh oh I want to play!

Who will we get to run this reichsministerium fur volksaufklärung und propaganda?

I think we'll have to put Jay Carney and Arianna Huffington on the short list, most def.



But seriously its not about banning who want to report on what you do.

Its about banning the purveyors of fake news and conspiracy theories.

Its about banning rude infantile jerks like the FNN reporter who had the stones to browbeat the PRESIDENT at his own press conference.

Would any member of FNN have ever shown that disrespect to Obama?

Hell no, and we both know damned well that if any "Fox News" type reporter ever dared do that to Obama it would be a month long news cycle about "racism".

He had an invitation to the adults table and he chose to act like a snotty brat, he needs a timeout and so do a lot of his friends.

They can earn their spot back - question is will they?

 

Indeed. Never question the Trump. The Turmp is always right. The Trump will tell you what you need to know. A free press is an invasive press that distracts from the Trump's message.

Did that sum it up properly?

 

QUOTE=Jason Bourne;1067010337]So said quite a few Germans in 1933. Of course my analogy of Trump's behavior to the Nazi regime is just that, an analogy. But any suggestion about selectively muzzling a constitutionally guaranteed free press should be deeply disturbing.[/QUOTE]Which media is being "muzzled"?

Crying "Nazi" is a foolish analogy anyway. A more recent example of media suppression would be the Communists, and that is still going on today in Cuba. We needn't go back to the 30's for media censorship.

 

Why would anyone oppose us having direct access to our president? How is 5 statements (5-10 tweets) a day an obsession? When did progressives stop being progressive and starting opposing new tools for communication?

 

The free press will be interviewing President Trump immediately prior to the Super Bowl. That's hardly suppression of the media, or Nazism.

 

Bill O'Reilly is "the free press"?

He is a right wing sycophantic talk show host.

 

So because Bill O'Reilly does not fit your political leanings he is not a member of the 'free press'? Now we can see where the instinct towards true media suppression lies.

 

I suppose it depends on how one defines the free press. I don't think of talk show hosts who shamelessly suck up to the president as being objective.

Furthermore, it is one person, not a collection. One person carefully, I am sure, selected because he has a massive crush on the orange one.

 

Perhaps, but he is still being interviewed in front of one of the largest audiences of the year by a man who is said to be the toughest interviewer in the buiness. You'll be watching?

 

No it's not. It is being interviewed in front of a camera, and to call O'Reilly a "tough interviewer" is hilarious.

 

So being interviewed on camera in front of millions of people is not considered to be freedom of the press? This would be an opinion exclusive to yourself.

The media disagrees with your assessment. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...ugh-trump-interviewer/?utm_term=.eaa2faf107f1

 

Would it? It is not my opinion at all, but rather one invented and assigned to me in order to foment a simple argument in your post.

 

Then I'm pleased you agree that freedom of the press is alive and well.

 

Are you? I never said as much.

Indeed, I think the freedom of the press is dangerously under figurative fire, blatantly under attack by the pending administration who seems to unable to stop themselves from reacting to any criticism perceived or actual, and their supporters who cant the mantras they are taught so well.

 

Or instead of.



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I sincerely doubt that you have the slightest idea what anything in Wikileaks ever said. But you don't hesitate to make stuff up.

 

Wikileaks showed many members of the MSM coordinating with the DNC and Hillary Clinton's campaign. I know that's an inconvenient fact to be exposed for left-wing Democrats, but thankfully it was.

 

Good point, he'll be president & representing the USA. In like manner, what the media report is read by people world wide, so they share in how the US president is presented & how the USA is representing, both nationally & internationally. In other words, it's fine to hold the president accountable, but it's equally fine for him or anyone else to hold them accountable, wouldn't u say?

 

This...

CNN is caught in a lie every other day, yet people still watch it?

The best defense against fake news is to hear it straight from the source, so that said, I'm all for him keeping his Twitter.

I don't want to hear Trump's message after its been whitewashed, edited, and selectively reported. I'd rather hear it from him.

 

Think of how damaging this will be for them, too. They'll have to spend all their time responding to Twitter tweets like a bunch of teenage girls. That should undermine their credibility a great deal.

 

That's whole lot of nothing you just said there. Is it really too much for him to even pretend to have some class now that he is taking the highest office in land.

This is how he represents our country publically. He should start acting like he has just become the leader of the free world, not trying to out do Kim Kardashian in a twitter shoot out.

 

One NYT journalist said he's not going to cover Trump's tweets.

Okay? Well everyone else will be so good luck to you.

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Now we want class?

You should have said something 8 years ago.

 

Right, so point me to the daily twitter storms of Obama, calling out actors, SNL, random US companies with ill-informed tabloidish quotes.

 

I don't understand your complaint. Breitbart was completely tied into the Trump campaign, as it and Fox are now.

Fox News was little more than a press agent for George W Bush.

You do not seem to object to right wing media moutpieces, even when they lie to you (repeatedly). Only left wing ones.

Since we're well down the way to tabloid yellow journalism, and right wing media is little more than public relations for powerful conservative causes, you seem to want to play the hypocrite on this one.

Of course, when it comes to Trump, right wing hypocricy is astounding and exists on multiple levels.

Trump promised to go after Wall Street. Instead he hired it.

Trump promised to drain the swamp. His cabinet picks would make Warren Harding blush, and he openly announced that he had no intention of honoring even the spirit of any existing ethics laws or traditions.

Trump lies almost every time he speaks in public and quite often on Twitter.

You applaud and yell for more.

 

Trump now represents the US to the world. If you think 'just don't read them if you don't like them' is actually valid answer to his daily tweets you are lost.

The reason his Tweets get reported on is because what he states publicly while representing the United States of America's high office MATTERS.