How amazing is it at how Trump is able to control the media message every day of the week...?

[kentuck]

...and every week of the year?

No doubt, he has found a secret weapon with his Twitter account. So far, no one has found an answer for that ?

But, it is hard to deny that he has complete control of our nation's media operations.

In my opinion, there has never been a leader, including Hitler, that was so adept and masterful at controlling the message he wants the people to hear.

Furthermore, how did he manage his trip to Hanoi to coincide with Michael Cohen's testimony before the House and Senate? Or did Michael Cohen choose the dates?

[bearsfootball516]

1. I think the Hanoi trip and Cohen's testimony dates were coincidenal.

The meeting was set up several weeks ago, well before we knew Cohen would be testifying in public Wednesday.

[Iliyah]

2. Majority of corporate media is owned by Republicans . .

That said, he's losing his grip with many of his base. The diehard ones will remain no matter what. t-rump won due to cheating and stealing in 2016.

[MH1]

3. He is very good at it.

I tend to not call him "stupid" although he does seem to be "stupid" about many things we would expect a president or even a true business leader to know. But he is very, very good at manipulation. I tend to think it is a skill he developed from very early in life (trained/indoctrinated by family and cohorts), and by now his brain is diseased as many of us think, but he is able to continue performing manipulation at a high skill level because it is so much part of him. He's basically doing it on autopilot, and still doing it really effectively. Because most of us just haven't been trained to fight that way.

[comradebillyboy]

4. CNN and NY Times love Trump just as much as Fox does.

They hang on his every word. He's good entertainment. Good form ratings and bad for the country.

[allgood33]

5. Only because the owners of the media are largely COMPLICIT! nt

[Bradshaw3]

6. A good con man only needs to be good at one thing

Adeptly using whatever medium he knows will work to get his con - in his case using racial animus - across to the suckers. tRump does that well and that is why we shouldn't underestimate his potential to win in 2020.

[Chipper Chat]

7. At this moment MSNBC is gushing over his trip

Bla black black trump black black I'm excited black black trump will be good black. Black hope. Yuk I wish they would ignore him.

[Chipper Chat]

8. Oops. It's all bla.

Damn autocorrect

[stopbush]

9. But he does it without a whiff of positive spin.

The daily barrage of lies and scandals does nothing to earn him an ounce of respect as POTUS. It does nothing to advance his agenda. It does not relieve him of the legal consequences he faces.

It’s a bit like Hitler marching unopposed over Europe. No one back then gave him credit for being a great conquerer or war criminal. The world watched in horror as Hitler’s armies rolled through the continent. The world did not come around to his way of existence. The world fought him as hard as they could until the tide finally turned.

[rufus dog]

10. The Cohen thing, it was rescheduled for tomorrow

If anything it was rescheduled to mess with tRump.