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Lesley Stahl asked Trump in semi-private meeting why hes always attacking the press. His answer: I want to demean you and discredit you so that when you do negative stories about me, no one will believe you.
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irisblue
(33,019 posts)world wide wally
(21,754 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)He helps give them bigly ratings, so they'll fall all over themselves to let Trump drive the news cycle.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)then they can all go to work for the Trump Org.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,114 posts)Rump is on record he will do one of those. He isnt sure which yet.
NOTHING he does will matter to them. NOTHING
pandr32
(11,605 posts)May his own words bite him.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)That kind of talk is reserved for the media and the media only. It's not supposed to get out and bruited around by the hoi polloi. We dunderheaded simpletons don't grasp the nuance and the subtleties involved in the interactions between government officials and the media, and we're likely to misconstrue such plain language, and think that the president is consciously and willfully pursuing a personal vendetta against the popular media in an effort to make their reporting less believable to the cretins who support him.
Everybody pretend you didn't read that!
I thought it was obvious.
Whiskeytide
(4,462 posts)... Anyone to whom this is news has NOT been paying attention.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,191 posts)Not even the praise when he manages not to wet himself during campaign rallies.
ecstatic
(32,727 posts)which is why he often openly shares his disgusting thought processes from time to time... and, of course, he's always shocked at the backlash he receives when he reveals his thoughts.
The fact that he is willing to destroy the nation, it's norms, and the constitution to protect his own ego.... well... what kind of person does that?
kentuck
(111,110 posts)It encapsulates his political philosophy .
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)The press has plenty of ammunition to use against him. He has run his mouth for decades. On the record. They just need to bombard the news cycle with his bad deeds, his lies, contradictions, his awful business practices. Lay it all out there. Dare him to dispute it. If he does, hit him again. Never stop. Never let his sorry ass off the hook. There are plenty of the press and just one tRumpolini. Even he has a limited number of minions. The press out numbers him. And never ever let him see you sweat. Just take a number from his playbook. Double down and never back up. I want to see him crumble and melt like the Wicked Witch.
Cha
(297,527 posts)fake mouth he discredits himself.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)But she's fairly useless, except as a means to relay garbage to the US public.
Kaleva
(36,328 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)He has the press cowering