White House says media delegitimizing Trump, won't 'take it'

[TomCADem]

Source: MSN/Reuters

The White House vowed on Sunday to fight the news media "tooth and nail" over what officials see as unfair attacks on President Donald Trump, setting a tone that could ratchet up a traditionally adversarial relationship to a new level of rancor.

A day after the Republican president used his first visit to CIA headquarters on Saturday to accuse the media of underestimating the crowds at his inauguration, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus expressed indignation at the reports and referred to them as "attacks."

"The point is not the crowd size. The point is the attacks and the attempt to delegitimize this president in one day. And we're not going to sit around and take it," Priebus said on "Fox News Sunday."

Priebus complained about a press pool report that said the bust of Martin Luther King Jr had been removed from the Oval Office. The report on Friday night was quickly corrected but Trump called out the reporter by name at the Central Intelligence Agency on Saturday, as did spokesman Sean Spicer later in the day.

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/white-house-says-media-delegitimizing-trump-wont-take-it/ar-AAm7gdi?li=BBnbcA1

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I would think that the White House is deligitimizing itself without any help with references to "alternative facts," and such. Still, another threat against the media.

[shraby]

1. What they are forgetting is the t.v. media has literally miles of video tape that can refute

any alternate facts trumpco comes up with, and print media buys their ink by the barrel and paper by the yuge rolls.

[meadowlander]

19. Jon Stewart built his entire career

on the fact that Republicans don't seem to realise we have technology that records the things they say and do and can play them back at a later time.

[Bob Loblaw]

47. To paraphrase:

The media giveth (legitimacy), and the media taketh away.

[harun]

65. Perfect

[Achilleaze]

2. Actually, the Russians already DELEGIMATIZED Comrade Casino & Republican Regime, Inc.

Turns out the American people don't like liars and cheaters, especially those who steal elections.

[otohara]

3. Actually You Will Take It Reince

and the more you spin the lies the more we won't take it.

[dalton99a]

5. +1

[2naSalit]

4. Fasten your seat belts, kids. This don't look good....nt

[Marthe48]

6. So easy to delegitimize trump

but his lying machine will find it impossible to delegitimize PRESIDENT OBAMA.

[mpcamb]

40. It wasn't the media who 'de legitimized' him, it was the millions of Americans who marched

and diminished his tiny, measly, palty, pathetic attempt at a coronation.

[Marthe48]

42. I was thinking about the executive orders, repeal ACA

all of the petty bs that all the repugs are doing to try to erase Pres. Obama's legacy. They can take things about climate change, LGBT, and other items that were on whitehouse.gov but no matter how they try to rewrite history, Pres. Obama will top the charts, and d.ump et al will be a brown stain on the page.

[C_U_L8R]

7. Fighting facts with alt-bullshit

Trump is a freaking delegitimate loser.
Real Presidents embrace the truth
and work for the benefit of ALL people.
Trump is not OUR President.

[PatSeg]

8. What on earth did these people think

it would be like once they got in the White House? This is why incoming presidents choose a handful of people who have extensive government and executive experience. Not a person among them knows what he/she is doing, though there are quite a few accomplished whiners.

[jalan48]

9. This really reminds me of Nixon after the Watergate story first appeared in the press.

[LeftInTX]

10. It's worse. Because it is over trivial stuff.

[onetexan]

32. Nixonian in deed. Let it unravel.

The soon the better. I'm hoping the far right congress and the despicable front man they put up will all be locked up for treason.

[yallerdawg]

11. WTF? 75,000,000 voters delegitimized him!

54% of actual voters rejected the Corrupt One.

That is fact, and the "alternative fact" is "the voters have spoken and they chose the jackass."

http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=2016&f=0&off=0&elect=0

[cstanleytech]

12. Should have been "Trump tries to cow media from reporting the truth!!"

[Vinca]

13. Holy shiite. And this is only day 2.

[bucolic_frolic]

14. A fine whine way past its time

[Rex]

15. But we didn't have to do a SINGLE thing to de-legitimize Trump, the CIA did that!

[smirkymonkey]

16. Do the cameras lie?

How stupid does he think we are?

[Native]

22. Cameras didn't seem to make a difference during the campaign.

[maddiemom]

46. Obviously photoshopped.

They just imposed empty space over most of the crowd gathered to hear the beloved leader.

[bucolic_frolic]

17. Oh yes you're gonna take it

so you'd better get used to it

The American people, the world, the press, women, future generations

are not going to standby while everything is stolen from them

[George II]

18. Sorry, that's not true, trump already delegitimized trump.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

63. That's exactly what I was thinking. n/t

[lark]

20. I just hope he doesn't try to stop freedom of the press.

He;s threatened to change libel laws so he can jail reporters, just hope he's not stupid enough to actually try to do that. Even our RW SCOTUS wouldn't put up with that, except for the hacks Thomas and Alito who have no conscience or brain. How far will he go, and can we survive this shitwad?

[treestar]

21. What do they mean they are not going to take it?

They will take it. We have a free press.

[Stonepounder]

24. For how long? n/t

[onetexan]

34. Exactly what i was asking

the hell are they going to do, or can do? The press will keep on pressing (about time they do) and it's not like they don't have ways to get their news even if trump camp won't allow reporters to follow the orange idiot around or bar reporters he doesn't like. So all these nonsensical threats by the ignoramous lot of trump talking heads need to stop.

[SCVDem]

23. The truth is a bucket of water

and Rump and his cronies are melting when exposed to it.

Corrupt Texas schoolbooks haven't dumbed down enough Americans it would seem.

They like Marine Le Pen, so let's build a gallows on the mall.

Very French I would say.

[milestogo]

27. Go Pack Go!

[47of74]

33. If we're going the French route wouldn't it be Madame Guillotine

[world wide wally]

25. We need some smart-ass reporters to ask questions of Spicer like:

Did Mr Trump really break Kim Jung Il's golf record by shooting a 31 for 18 holes?

Does Mr Trump wear size XXXX Large gloves?

Did Mr Trump really sign with the Yankees before Mickey Mantle?

Did the President have any help with writing "Two Corinthians"?

[still_one]

26. you are exactly right Tom, the WH is delegitimizing itself

[Retrograde]

28. Delegitimize (v): to tell the truth

I'm working on a Reince-English dictionary.

[Soram55]

29. Trump emulating Hitler??

Which is a better name for "the, not my" new President????

Trumpler or Hitrump....

Both men are narcissistic and cannot stand any, any kind of criticism. Hitler controlled every bit of information fed to the German people. Trump has said that if he gets elected, he will rewrite the libel laws so that it would be easier for politicians to sue the media. This goes against the spirit and intent of the First Amendment which guarantees free press which is absolutely necessary in protecting our Democracy. Trump plans on rewriting the libel laws in order to intimidate the media and silence opposition. That, as in Hitler's case is the mark of a dictator.

Both will/would not tolerate anyone speaking out against or heckling them when speaking in public. Just look at the fights that broke out during Trumps campaigns and the people that were injured. Hitler had his SA's beat agitators bloody.

Both men believe in torture..Trump in water boarding and other means of torture and history tells of the horrors Hitler inflicted on the Jews.

Both men are racist..
Hitler tried to annihilate the Jews
Trumps is trying to annihilate the Mexicans and the Muslims

Think about it..who supports Hitler and Trump...White Supremacist..they think he is the second coming of Hitler, "their Savior" because he is pro-white and anti-Muslim and anti-Mexican. They think he's on their side especially since he's all for everyone running around gun crazy.

Both men promised to make their countries great again....true Germany had issues but l personally thought the United States was already great..if he thinks it's so bad he should go live in Russia.

I could go on but space is limited. If he doesn't want to be compared to Hitler than he needs to quit emulating him.

Oy Vey... what are we in for America?

[SHRED]

55. They will lose and reality will win

Their fake world is shrinking and they are having a collective breakdown I think.

[ElementaryPenguin]

30. Sorry, Trump White House. YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE IT!!!!!!!

We badly outnumber you. SHUT UP, and do the people's work!!!

[47of74]

31. Rancid Penis is going to learn pretty quickly that the tapeworm admin is going to have to take it

[NastyRiffraff]

35. If you can't take it, Rinse

you shouldn't have taken the job. Neither should Dump have.

A president, any president, will be criticized constantly, every single day, without mercy. And although you can respond, you have to "take it." Just ask Barak Obama.

[MFM008]

36. YES YOU WILL

[pandr32]

37. Well maybe they should not have ran such an untraditional and unqualified candidate

...riddled with baggage and conflicts of interest...not to mention kompromat.
Just saying.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

38. Or what? NT

[roamer65]

39. You are an employee of "we the people". We say how long you stay, Dump.

[muriel_volestrangler]

41. The Queeg administration continues to dig its hole deeper (nt)

[Blue Idaho]

43. Hells Bells Reince

We ain't even warmed up yet... when we're done with ya - you'll feel like a one legged man in an ass kicking contest.

[brooklynite]

44. So, that whole "access journalism" thing is dead?

Works for me.

[Snellius]

45. "Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me"

Where's Joseph Goebbels when they need him? Oh, yeah. He got toasted. How long will it take to recognize the obvious. The President is insane. He'll order the CIA: "Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them. They laughed at me and made jokes but I proved beyond the shadow of a doubt and with... geometric logic... that a duplicate key to the wardroom icebox DID exist, and I'd have produced that key if they hadn't of pulled the Caine out of action. I, I, I know now they were only trying to protect some fellow officers..."

[Grammy23]

49. One of the saddest and yet most satisfying scenes in that movie is the one you quote.

Queeg is revealed to be every bit as much of a lunatic as he is accused of being. But it really is sad as it dawns on Queeg that he just proved their case. I keep thinking that tRump will have his Queeg moment when cameras are on and the whole messy story gets shown for all to see. I hoped throughout the campaign that it would happen only to see his followers embrace him all the more when he acted out. Never in my wildest dreams did I think his first days in office would spiral out of control so quickly and over such a trivial matter...crowd size.

So yes, Sean and Donald, you will take whatever is dished out. You baked this turd cake and now you have to eat it and swallow.

This is the most animated and hopeful I have seen DU since Nov. 8th. Who knew that two days in we'd we whistling and turning cartwheels?? I like to think that maybe the media people may be licking their chops after the thrashing they've taken from tRump and his minions.

[eppur_se_muova]

48. To "delegitimize" someone, they have to be legitimate to begin with.

So that problem will never arise.

[Cha]

50. The WH is a bunch of whiny twits who already have DeLegitimatized

themselves.

[truthisfreedom]

51. Jesus they barely scrape through the inauguration and

They're already the crybaby administration.

[SHRED]

52. Why are they doing this?

Why are they picking this fight with the media?

[TomCADem]

54. If You Have The Stomach, Peek at Breitbart...

...I think they are trying to inoculate their followers from reality by picking fights early.

[Phoenix61]

53. I find it interesting that Twitler is getting bit by the very technology he used so effectively

You don't want to sit around and take it? Stand up and stop lying every time you open your mouth.

[SHRED]

56. They are losing their minds

It's looks like the Trump team, including Trump are having a collective mental and emotional breakdown.
They can't keep reality away anymore and it's slowly but surely dissolving the fake worlds they've created.
This is so bizarre.

[NanceGreggs]

57. Good thinking, Rince Penis ...

... or whatever your name is.

I guess you haven't figured out yet that you need the media far more than they need you. The press is your only means of trying to defend the idiocies of this pResident. Unless you plan to stand on a soapbox in the local park and shout at passersby in order to "clarify" your boss's latest inane Tweet, or grab the mic at local bingo halls in order to do the required damage control, you're fucked. You have no other way of spewing your bullshit talking points to a wide audience; you have no other avenue to reach the people you'll need to convince that this isn't the Worst Administration Ever!

As weak, ineffective, and pathetically useless as the mainstream media may be, it's still a given that if it comes down to Trump v MSM, the MSM wins. They have nothing to lose by fighting back - and you have nothing to gain by taking them on.

In fact, if the media goes full-out Dump Trump, they'll probably gain viewers awed by the MSM's new-found growth of a spine.

[regnaD kciN]

58. "Help, help! I'm being deligitimized!"...

...by a press that's dishonestly telling the truth about me!

[wishstar]

59. Sorry, but they can't force hundreds of thousands to line up cheering for Twitler

When all they are succeeding in doing is uniting a majority of Americans in opposition, distrust and dislike of their authoritarianism. Just because Hitler, Putin and their ilk successfully subdued their citizens, Americans aren't up for a dictatorial regime.

[Skittles]

60. LOL....and they call *US* "snowflakes"?????

[Sunlei]

61. Our Press has to speak up or we're doomed. Republicans! make your president drop the nazi contacts!

On White House and POTUS twitters, he's following same 41 and shouldn't "follow" anyone on all the peoples Federal government twitter channels.

[C_U_L8R]

62. Poor baby BLOTUS stomps his feet

You will never have our respect, you poseur.

[wordpix]

64. get used to it, Rancid, the whole nation are now journalists with their phones

[Denzil_DC]

66. Won't take it? Can't take it, more like. n/t

[adigal]

67. Mark Twain: Don't pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel

Still holds today, just with different ink.

[Yonnie3]

68. The Illegitimate President doesn't want that fact reported. LMAO n/t

[sarcasmo]

69. Keep hammering the baby on all media platforms and flood the White House phone lines with calls.

[alarimer]

70. Trump IS an illegitimate President.

He's done that all on his own.