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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 07:00 PM Jan 2017

Trump's All-Caps OANN Tweet May Be His Most Telling Yet, and No One Seems to Care

by John Ziegler | 3:35 pm, January 14th, 2017

One of the most dangerous elements of the coming presidency of Donald Trump is that he has completely desensitized us to our normal impulses before he has even officially taken office. There is no better indication of this phenomenon than his infamous Twitter account in general and one tweet in particular from today.

While his predictable condemnation of Democratic Congressman John Lewis claiming Trump is not a “legitimate” president has gotten most of the attention on this Martin Luther King holiday weekend, I’m referring to another tweet from the president-elect. This one was a response to the ongoing controversy over the Trump/Russia dossier which has dominated the news for the past several days.

In my view, it would be difficult for one sentence to be more telling/damning to an incoming president than this one:



Let’s break this down. First, the president-elect of the United States is tweeting in all capital letters. This is something that when done by an unknown person with an egg avatar usually results in an instant blocking/muting because it is assumed that they are at least partially nuts. For Trump to do this it must mean that the subject is REALLY important and that he is VERY confident in the truth of what he is saying. This means that its substance should be prone to even greater scrutiny.

Secondly, in the tweet he cites a One America News Network “report,” but there are multiple problems with this. One America News (on which I have appeared multiple times) is a complete joke. It is a tiny network based in a very small office building off a highway outside of San Diego. It has literally no “news” department from which to generate any legitimate original reporting.

OANN, which just hired former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, is very clearly attempting to make a name for itself by being the most pro-Trump outlet in the land (which is about as difficult a task as being the most obvious sycophant at an Oscar winner’s post-ceremony party) and nothing they say about him should be taken at face value by anyone. But in this particular case, Trump citing them is even more bizarre and lacking in credibility than it normally would be.

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Trump's All-Caps OANN Tweet May Be His Most Telling Yet, and No One Seems to Care (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2017 OP
What's an "egg avatar"? I don't keep up with online slang. NT mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2017 #1
an egg avatar is the default picture on twitter. bench scientist Jan 2017 #4
Got it. Thanks. BTW, can anyone help me set the clock on my Beta VCR? mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2017 #8
lol, there is a lot to keep up with anymore. bench scientist Jan 2017 #9
Do you live on the second floor or higher? Lochloosa Jan 2017 #11
One America News is pathetic. Buckeye_Democrat Jan 2017 #2
Doesn't he already have some sort of financial connection or link thru his staff with them? Nt procon Jan 2017 #3
and Trump TV is born. GeorgeGist Jan 2017 #5
It's the "news channel" that I assumed would become "Trump TV"... Buckeye_Democrat Jan 2017 #6
Interesting dhol82 Jan 2017 #7
So if he has to rely on the just "purchased" OANN, that means he can't even get National Enquirer KittyWampus Jan 2017 #10
It takes one to know one. lpbk2713 Jan 2017 #12
This is so awful. janx Jan 2017 #13
What intelligence insiders? Initech Jan 2017 #14

bench scientist

(1,107 posts)
4. an egg avatar is the default picture on twitter.
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 07:18 PM
Jan 2017

If you don't change it, it's widely viewed as belonging to a luddite or as a dummy/fake account.

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,533 posts)
8. Got it. Thanks. BTW, can anyone help me set the clock on my Beta VCR?
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 07:28 PM
Jan 2017

OMG - Joan Crawford just found the wire hangers.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,855 posts)
2. One America News is pathetic.
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 07:14 PM
Jan 2017

Trump citing them at all is pathetic too!

Even OANN's regular "news coverage" contains various dog whistles.

I switched to that channel a few minutes ago, and their report on the upcoming Trump-Russia Congressional investigation was worded to make it seem that BOTH campaigns were being investigated for their ties to Russia.

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,855 posts)
6. It's the "news channel" that I assumed would become "Trump TV"...
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 07:22 PM
Jan 2017

at some point in the future, even changing their name to that.

It has to be fairly inexpensive. It reeks of "cheap" and pro-Trump.

 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
10. So if he has to rely on the just "purchased" OANN, that means he can't even get National Enquirer
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 07:35 PM
Jan 2017

to write him a damned headline?

janx

(24,128 posts)
13. This is so awful.
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 08:04 PM
Jan 2017

It just keeps getting worse and worse. Our next president, eh?


I suspect that exclamation mark is his, since he appears to be so fond of them, yet he included it in the quote...if it is in fact a quote.

We're screwed.

Initech

(100,088 posts)
14. What intelligence insiders?
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 08:27 PM
Jan 2017

Donald Trump has pretty much told the entire US intelligence community to go fuck itself, which means that any terrorist attack that happens on US soil is on his hands.

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