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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, Im 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:
Lets 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 winners 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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mahatmakanejeeves
(57,533 posts)bench scientist
(1,107 posts)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)OMG - Joan Crawford just found the wire hangers.
bench scientist
(1,107 posts)have a good week!
Lochloosa
(16,066 posts)Throw it out of the window.
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)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.
procon
(15,805 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,322 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,855 posts)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.
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Something to be followed closely.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)to write him a damned headline?
lpbk2713
(42,763 posts)Trump is the biggest fraud of all time.
janx
(24,128 posts)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)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.