While watching Donald Trump's coronavirus press briefing last Saturday, my 92-year-old stepfather, Juan, made a curious observation.
Trump's masterful jujitsu in turning the journalists' attack on him into a criticism of their beloved Barack Obama only fuels their hatred, more so by exposing their hackery.
Because Trump's daily press briefings have calmed the public and skyrocketed his approval ratings, prominent press figures are actually demanding that news sources stop showing them.
MSNBC hostess Rachel Maddow tweeted, "If Trump is going to keep lying like he has every day on stuff this important, we should, all of us, stop broadcasting it. Honestly, it's going to cost lives." New York Times columnist Charles Blow concurred in his tweet, "These Trump disinformation press conferences are at best worthless, and at worst a threat to public health." On Tuesday, the Seattle PBS station said it would discontinue carrying the Trump press briefings because of their "Pattern of false and misleading information." Never mind the constant presence of one or more top epidemiologists such as Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx answering reporters' questions.
So while many CNN and NBC staffers are reportedly angry at their networks for carrying Trump's pressers, their bosses have so far overruled them.
Very soon Donald Trump will have to make the toughest choice of any president in Juan's lifetime, with the possible exception of Harry Truman over dropping the atomic bomb on Japan.
The more Trump punched back, the more their masks slipped to reveal the fanatical rage underneath.
https://spectator.org/a-journal-of-the-plague-year/
Trump's masterful jujitsu in turning the journalists' attack on him into a criticism of their beloved Barack Obama only fuels their hatred, more so by exposing their hackery.
Because Trump's daily press briefings have calmed the public and skyrocketed his approval ratings, prominent press figures are actually demanding that news sources stop showing them.
MSNBC hostess Rachel Maddow tweeted, "If Trump is going to keep lying like he has every day on stuff this important, we should, all of us, stop broadcasting it. Honestly, it's going to cost lives." New York Times columnist Charles Blow concurred in his tweet, "These Trump disinformation press conferences are at best worthless, and at worst a threat to public health." On Tuesday, the Seattle PBS station said it would discontinue carrying the Trump press briefings because of their "Pattern of false and misleading information." Never mind the constant presence of one or more top epidemiologists such as Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Deborah Birx answering reporters' questions.
So while many CNN and NBC staffers are reportedly angry at their networks for carrying Trump's pressers, their bosses have so far overruled them.
Very soon Donald Trump will have to make the toughest choice of any president in Juan's lifetime, with the possible exception of Harry Truman over dropping the atomic bomb on Japan.
The more Trump punched back, the more their masks slipped to reveal the fanatical rage underneath.
https://spectator.org/a-journal-of-the-plague-year/
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