Stop. Stop this right now. THERE IS NO NEW TONE! There is no "other trump".

[kpete]

There is no “more serious trump”.
There will be no pivot, no change, no shift.
There is no trump B.
The one we’ve all seen for nearly 4 years, is the only one there is.
Stop doing this crap.
I beg you.


THE NOTE: The president is displaying a new tone and a new level of engagement, after aides and allies have pleaded with him to recognize the gravity of the moment

Link to tweet

?s=20

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Mike 03]

1. For the life of me, I don't understand why important media voices can't grasp

this. How long is it permissible to be fooled before we start calling them idiots. (This morning, I'm looking right at you, Dr. Sanjay Gupta.)

[Blecht]

46. Upton Sinclair figured it out

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

[HotTeaBag]

56. Blecht for the win.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Rick Klein is the political news director for ABC and he ought to know better.

I hope he gets thoroughly dragged on Twitter for that galactically stupid remark.

[Aristus]

3. Every time Trump speaks in public without shitting himself, the right goes into raptures.

"Donald Trump became President tonight with this landmark speech!"

"This is Donald Trump's Gettysburg Address!"


If it weren't for low standards, right-wingers wouldn't have any standards at all...

[GopherGal]

13. The Right, I could understand...sort of.

But the "Mainstream Media" should know better than to buy into this BS. I mean, for Spaghetti Monster's sake, after being his patsies for 5 years or more, buying and promulgating the "successful businessman" myth, providing him free airtime, airing live shots of empty hotel ballrooms for his "news conference"/political rallies, have they no self respect? Haven't they caught on that they've been played? And are still being played?

I suppose they're falling all over themselves to be the first to report on some supposed new leaf the's turned over so they can get a return on all they have invested in this sorry excuse for a man. it must be a lot of work to tunnel under that bar they've set so low.

There's never going to be a "new" empathic Trump. There is no humanity inside that sack of pus and hatred.

[struggle4progress]

65. "But surely his 'Goya moment' persuades you that he can act Presidential!"

[jaxexpat]

68. The MSM got into this habit during Reagan's term.

They even made up a term to describe their collusion, calling him the "teflon" president. Since then, the bumper sticker mentality has reduced the national discourse to public drooling. As common bullies were enjoined to the ranks of "yuppies", the standard for all professionals took a dive. And that's how god made Limbaugh.

[Fullduplexxx]

4. Here comes trump's media to soften the way before election

[eleny]

5. i can hear eric boehlert's eyes rolling from here

[kentuck]

6. Everybody knows who he is.

He is not going to change.

He can pretend to change, but everyone should know better.

[lagomorph777]

7. Oh that's hilarious. He allowed one rogue staff member to put out a less-than-insane tweet.

Or he read the prompter correctly for one minute?

That's a change in tone?

Has he called off his death squads in Portland?

Yeah I didn't think so.

[spanone]

8. abc ....lick spittle for trump

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. Absolute madness, at the end of the day the mainstream media will need to take

about 35% of the blame for the MASS MURDER happening.

[Brother Buzz]

10. My magic 8 Ball says...

this is gonna be one big ass infomercial for the still unproven, questionable Covid-19 Vaccines coming down the pike.

The orange anus needs to sell this to the public to drum up support so the men behind the curtain can rush it to market before the election; it's his ONLY option.

[GopherGal]

16. I'm sort of morbidly curious

how is he going to try to take credit for the vaccines? I guess he never let truth stand in the way of a boast before. Why start now?

I agree that it can't be a coincidence that Agolf Shitler suddenly resumes caring about coronavirus a day after the announcement of favorable vaccine trial data.

I suppose the corona briefings will also resume their role as replacements for his narcissistic-supply MAGAT-suicide-pact rallies post Tulsa debacle and Manchester "weather" cancellation. No reason to believe the media will suddenly have learned to filter out his nonsense and only report what's newsworthy rather than breathlessly (and brainlessly) hype their live coverage.

[Brother Buzz]

18. Simple. He promised a vaccine months ago....

but the nasty liberals and fake scientists dragged their feet delivering it

[uponit7771]

60. +1, but dammit you're an anti-vaxer if you don't eat 100% of this vaccine shit that has hurt ...

... a lot of Americans in the past when they weren't time tested and Rushed out during pandemics.

If I read another post similar to that I'm going to scream

[agingdem]

11. Relax...

no one is listening to trump except his bleach-drinking sycophants..he's killed over 140,000 people and no "new tone" is going to bring them back from the dead...this pandemic is raging...so what if he can keep his mouth shut for ten whole seconds...no one cares...

[MuseRider]

12. My husband read some of that

and brought it to me the other day. "See, he is beginning to try to do better". He wants Trump out as much as I do but for some reason has become one of those people that checks everything I say or tell him about and tries to see it the way the R's would and comes back at me with that.

I swear, I go into a room and close myself in when he starts that. I cannot, will not listen. Even if it were true it would not be real. We already know Trump and seriously.....I am about to lose my mind with this new crap.

[colorado_ufo]

27. "See, he is beginning to try to do better."

He is? Aw, isn't that cute!

[sprinkleeninow]

55. ...tryin' to do better for ulterior reasons/motives...

speaking of 'do'...
Doo-doo.

[kairos12]

14. The media wants a horse race and will do anything to achieve it.

[Upthevibe]

15. I agree....Having said that....I am soooooooooo

looking forward to his effing CULT MEMBER'S reaction to him now saying it's patriot to wear masks....

What are they going to do?!?!? - (extra butter)...

[Permanut]

17. ABC Absolute Bull Crap. n/t

[dalton99a]

19. Stupid Fucking Bullshit.

[saidsimplesimon]

26. thank you dalton and David Rothschild

[Cha]

34. David Rothchild has to say that a lot.. I was looking for the

original tweet so I could Retweet.. Mahalo, dalton

Link to tweet

[shanti]

20. Exactly

He's sick and getting sicker. There will be no positive change ever.

[Javaman]

21. just rearranging the deck chairs. nt

[wiggs]

22. it's not like there's a choice. He's hardwired...has no ability to change. nt

[hibbing]

23. Remember the word "pivot" three years ago?

God, I wanted to barf every time I heard one of the idiots say he was going to pivot to be more "presidential". Of course, he only goes lower daily.


Peace

[Talitha]

24. He's a serial killer trying to convince us he's found Jesus.

[saidsimplesimon]

25. Plan A-Putin, Plan B-Putin, Plan C-traitor Mitch and spouse

[ashredux]

28. This is simple...

1) talk about how this virus came from China and one life is too many to lose.
2) repeat that he put a travel ban on China and save hundreds if not millions of lives
3) Say we have the best testing in the world, and then ventilators, we have the lowest mortality rate, Ventilators, and then one more ventilators.
4) The rest of an hour will be how Joe Biden sucks, is mentally unstable, is a far Left-wing socialist, and AOC is actually going to be running the government.

That’s about it. Oh, by the way, he will take two questions and then the third question will be too hard to answer And he will leave.

[blakstoneranger]

30. WRONG

He will take one question and then talk for 15-30 minutes, take another question and talk for another 20-30 minutes and then leave. He never wants to answer followup questions. And if you go for the chris wallace, he'll boot you from the press room. You don't dare embarass trump with serious questions or comments critiquing his answers.

[ashredux]

40. Yep. Most likely

[blakstoneranger]

29. HE'S GETTING LOTS OF HELP!!

MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, And others are helping to level the playing field between trump and biden. They're on TV talking about how trump can "turn things around". While pretending to talk to each other and to other guest, they're talking to each other about how trump can improve his poll numbers and better manage the pandemic. THEY'RE NOT REALLY TALKING TO EACH OTHER, THEY'RE SENDING MESSAGES TO TRUMP BECAUSE THEY KNOW HE'S WATCHING. All the networks are doing it. Joe scarborough was talking about trump needing to take a page from joe biden. This has been going on for a week now. The media is working both sides attempting to level the playing field. Now they're back on the hunter biden investigation. The media is actually trying to light this fire again because some senator want "answeres". Bill Barr is trying to get a judge to grant him access to bidens library in order to find documents related to the sexual harassment case.

They're going to ignore the fact that it way too late for trump to utilize plan b because people are DEAD. People have DIED goofing around with his dumbass political strategy. Remember when he put on the mask--the media acted like he had done ssomething miraculous--"trumps wearing a mask do yo thing will turn things around for him?" please, much too little and way too late. Now they want to wipe away and rewrite history as though the last 6 months didn'nt happen. AND THE MEDIA IS HELPING HIM DO IT.

THEY ARE WORRIED ABOUT HIS POLL NUMBERS WHEN PEOPLE ARE DYING FROM THIS VIRUS EVERY DAY! THEY DON'T CARE ALL THEY CARE ABOUT IS TRUMP. THIS IS GETTING REALLY SICK.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

31. Yeah, I'm sure any day now we'll see that "Jeffersonian" brilliance shine through......

….....

[Chakaconcarne]

32. LOL.... fleeting headline... Like who is going to believe this?

[PatSeg]

33. I think that anyone

who has been paying anything attention, knows there is only one Trump and the only change is him getting worse.

[rickyhall]

35. Con artists have many voices, many tones but they're all just fronts for more lies.

[stopdiggin]

36. 100% -- We've seen this song and dance before

It says nothing -- and it means nothing.
(This is the same WH that is -- still -- actively opposing efforts aimed towards TESTING.)

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[Grasswire2]

37. "The Note" has always been a piece of crap.

I have forgotten the name of the smarmy creep who wrote it originally. A real piece of work, drummed out for some kind of criminal activity.

But he was influential with Washington insiders. Too influential.

[Grasswire2]

52. Mark Halperin

Extraordinary scandal.

Gone.

[Marcuse]

38. Tone Deaf

[dchill]

39. Hey, ABCNews - you giving out barf-bags with that emetic swill?

[Evolve Dammit]

41. "There's a sucker born every minute" PT Barnum. Easily duped and manipulated.

[NRaleighLiberal]

42. ah, the van jones metamorphosis!

[PaulRevere08]

43. Is this a course correction from Sunday? "Cause he still was a

fu@king narcissistic moron that morning.

[tiredtoo]

44. Main stream media sucks. EOM

[eppur_se_muova]

45. At best, there are new cue cards ...

probably with "TRY TO FAKE IT" in big red letters, all caps.

[Mr. Ected]

47. For the umteenth time over the past 4 years

THE MEDIA IS COMPLICIT IN CREATING AND MAINTAINING THIS MONSTER.

[Sloumeau]

48. I agree. There is no new tone.

Trump is just once again rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic. He still has no plans for a national contact tracing program, a national PPE supply program, or a national ventilator program.

He's not sending the Army Corps of Engineers all over the country to take care of ICU bed shortages. He's not mandating the use of face masks. He's not criticizing Governors for not clamping down on COVID. He's the same jackass he's always been.

[Victor_c3]

49. Just wait until tomorrow - or maybe even later this evening

He’ll tweet his usual garbage and be back to his normal self

[malaise]

50. Anyone who buys this shit is tone deaf

[Kablooie]

51. This is EXACTLY what I warned of a few days ago.

Trump first makes the pandemic as bad as possible.
Then spins around and takes control.
The media supports him 100%

It will become so serious he will order a national lockdown and use violence to enforce it.
He will order a delay in the election because it is too dangerous to proceed.

And there we are in a fascist dictatorship.

[Ferrets are Cool]

53. THEY have been BEGGING for this to happen

THEY need a race. THEY need ratings that a close race brings. THEY care nothing about the country, ONLY $$.

[Mercurian]

54. He's like the Jabberwok

Unlike all the other denezins un his Looking Glass world he only has one face.

[Pepsidog]

57. MF'ers better not start this "new tone" bullshit after 4 years of torture.

[uponit7771]

62. +1, its text book abusive relationship crap; people ..WANT.. a sane president so anything will do

[dalton99a]

63. +1

[uponit7771]

58. More proof Americans are in a very abusive relationship

[Dios Mio]

59. Jeez

A psychopath will only evolve into a better psychopath. You would have to really ignorant to think otherwise or have led a sheltered life.

[sprinkleeninow]

61. hey abc! people with functioning brain cells call

"BULL****" on this dribble.

Wait. Hold up. Bull puckey is tons more fragrant than this hovno.

[Tactical Peek]

64. "To whom did New Tone Trump show the most empathy and kindness today?"

Link to tweet

Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu

To whom did New Tone Trump show the most empathy and kindness today?

Families of COVID victims

Health care workers

Ghislaine Maxwell

[marble falls]

66. New Trump, old Trump: they all gotta go.

[cp]

67. Damn corporate media

Hey, here's an idea: how about giving Joe Biden ten times the free air time you give the dotard?