Trump backs Bannon: The media is the opposition party

[workinclasszero]

Trump backs Bannon: ‘The media is the opposition party’
By Nolan D. McCaskill 01/27/17 03:27 PM EST

President Donald Trump agreed Friday with a top White House aide that the mainstream media is the “opposition party” to his administration.

“Yeah, I think the media’s the opposition party in many ways,” Trump told “The Brody File,” according to an excerpt released Friday afternoon.

Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist and senior counselor, told The New York Times in an interview this week that “the media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while.”

On the first full day of his presidency, Trump declared war on the media. And he has repeatedly blasted the media at large throughout the first week of his administration: at CIA headquarters, at his inaugural balls and in front of a crowd of congressional Republicans, to name a few instances.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/donald-trump-steve-bannon-media-opposition-party-234280

[onecaliberal]

1. Maybe the media should HIT BACK

[Rex]

2. How does Dumbfuck in Chief not have an inclining Bannon is the king of alt-right media?

Jesus, do folks ever vet the people they let work with them?

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Easy answer is NO.

Trump and Bannon are on the same page. Trump has always believed in Conspiracy theories.

[Rex]

8. I bet he loves people like Alex Jones.

Trump probably thinks we faked the Moon landing.

[Wellstone ruled]

11. Most likeiy does.

Understand Jones and Bannon share stories.

[bdamomma]

3. tRump is a filthy man

this reporter did

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028547736

[Cha]

6. Right!

Link to tweet

Also Keith Olbermann..

[Cha]

4. Keith Olbermann on blotus and the media

Link to tweet

[struggle4progress]

5. The media likes to avoid abecedarian errors, like confusing Prime Ministers with porn stars

Of course, an error like that might be informative: it could tell us who the folk in the Administration follow

[DEM4EVR801]

9. So, As I Supspected...A Civil War Reference...

I Can Read Between The Lines And This Reference Is All Too Common With The 45 Adminstration...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_Party_(United_States)

“I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get
used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours;
my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me.”
― Muhammad Ali

[Fred Sanders]

10. Trump is in a thermonuclear war with reality and facts and not just the media.

[GliderGuider]

12. Um, Donnie, without an opposition it's not a democracy any more.

Did you have something else in mind for your subjects, perhaps?

[dubyadiprecession]

13. Joe Scarborough said this morning in so many words, that Trump is picking a losing strategy...

by picking a fight with the media.