Take about your fake news. Coming form the Trump campaign that is. In a testament to the unhinged Trump, apparently his campaign aides and employees routinely planted stories in sympathetic "news" sources, such as preeminent right wing blogs masquerading as news outlets, then showed the stories to Trump in order to keep him form going berserk on social media. Yeah. That is the guy with access to launch codes now. Apparently, flattering news stories kept Donald form brooding and tweeting to the highest degree. Man, if that was Trump in check, imagine what Trump unchecked would do. But I think this shows tow things. First, obviously Trump is easily manipulated through storing (or is it stoking, I can never remember) his ego. Second, others do the work, if any is actually done, while Turmp shows a latent disinterest. Cue comments on sources. http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-twitter-staffer-235263 President Donald Trumps former campaign staffers claim they cracked the code for tamping down his most inflammatory tweets, and they say the current West Wing staff would do well to take note. The key to keeping Trumps Twitter habit under control, according to six former campaign officials, is to ensure that his personal media consumption includes a steady stream of praise. And when no such praise was to be found, staff would turn to friendly outlets to drum some up and make sure it made its way to Trumps desk. "If candidate Trump was upset about unfair coverage, it was productive to show him that he was getting fair coverage from outlets that were persuadable," said former communications director Sam Nunberg. "The same media that our base digests and prefers is going to be the base for his support. I would assume the president would like to see positive and preferential treatment from those outlets and that would help the operation overall." Staff members had one advantage as they aimed to manage candidate Trumps media diet: He rarely reads anything online, instead preferring print newspapers especially his go-to, The New York Times and reading material his staff brought to his desk. Indeed, his media consumption habits were on full display during his roller-coaster news conference this past Thursday, when he continually remarked on what the media would write tomorrow, even as print outlets websites already had posted stories about his remarks. The White House did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Trump is also, however, a near-nonstop consumer of cable news, and his staffs efforts were not always enough to keep Trump from tweeting on topics that were far from his campaigns core message. Throughout the campaign, whatever messaging the candidates staff had planned was continually accompanied and often overshadowed by a string of feuds that played out both on and off Twitter.
What fake news? All I see is campaign staffers bringing stories to the attention of media. Do you not realize that's how political coverage has worked since the dawn of the printing press? You don't think Hillary or Obama fed a stories to the media? Come on man these candidates fly around with an entire plane full of reporters for this very reason.
Fake news created by his staffers with the help of "persuadable" outlets for the sole purpose of stoking Trump's fragile attention-whoring ego.
Trump is a pliable loon, with the backbone of a jellyfish. He is nothing more than a narcissist (with the mentality of a middle school kid trying to be popular) who is the puppet of Russia and Steve Bannon. Nothing surprises me anymore about the Cheeto in Chief.
