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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy Trump Can't Tweet His Way Out of This
On impeachment and Syria, Congress and the news media at last care more about what the president does than what he says.By JACK SHAFER
October 07, 2019
You neednt believe the hype about President Donald Trump being a 21st-century media wizard to concede he has a special talent for powershifting through the gears of the news cycle to blow past whatever current event might threaten his presidency. Whether its a function of Trumps volatility or a measure of his craft, he has a knack for freezing out damaging news by creating his own news storms that transfix the press. He fires members of his Cabinet and staff, over-reaches with executive orders, picks fights with a Gold Star mother and football players, engages in ad hominem, and insults entire friendly countries.
In recent days as bad news has swelled around him, Trump has taken to screaming treason and coup at full volume to divert the news flow. But this time, Trumps hydraulics dont seem to be working. Instead of Trump flooding the news cycle, the news cycle has begun to flood Trump. His special talentsif they really existhave begun to fail him, and he seems to know it. In two recent press sprays, with the Finnish president and on the White House lawn, Trumps peach complexion has gone scarlet with rage as he dodged and parried all the bad publicity.
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Even the presidents closest ally, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has turned on him. On Monday, Graham phoned into Fox & Friends to denounce Trumps decision to dump the Kurds and embrace the Turks. The move is shortsighted and irresponsible as well as unnerving, Graham said, and his anger was shared by other Republican legislators. Inside the Pentagon, the brass also appeared to favor Grahams position over Trumps.
At the rate all this bad news is surging, Trump must be pining for the good old days when a new development in special counsel Robert S. Mueller IIIs investigation was his greatest source of grief, and a nasty blast from his Twitter feed was potent enough to repel bad tidings. But suddenly Trumps best-defense-is-a-good-offense talents are no longer sufficient to fend off the damage. In recent days, Trump has sought and failed to stall the impeachment express with tweets attacking Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), but the press has largely ignored these pathetic lines of defense. In the old days, journalists would have rushed to their keyboards to dissect the Pelosi and Schiff tweets and placed under their magnifying glass Trumps Monday tweet about the Kurds and Turks in which he referred to his own great and unmatched wisdom.
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/10/07/trump-impeachment-syria-kurds-ukraine-media-229619
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Why Trump Can't Tweet His Way Out of This (Original Post)
catbyte
Oct 2019
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(16,937 posts)1. Great post...........
some interesting discussion in the "post comments" part.