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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump is attacking the NYT and WaPo this AM via Twitter (replete with typos)
In case anyone cares, here is what the POTUS is focused on this morning:
Thr coverage about me in the @nytimes and the @washingtonpost gas been so false and angry that the times actually apologized to its.....
...dwindling subscribers and readers.They got me wrong right from the beginning and still have not changed course, and never will. DISHONEST
How is it possible that this man is the president?
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)The whining Trump baby is insufferable
Squinch
(50,950 posts)OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Vinca
(50,273 posts)BainsBane
(53,034 posts)He'll be only an embarrassment and not an irrevocably destructive force.
Squinch
(50,950 posts)This man really is deranged.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)Entities he doesn't like are always "going down", losing business, are failures, or disasters. And his criticisms are patently false.
Every time, Trumpy can't stop his own narcissism.
And his Fanboys? They just have to shut up and eat their oatmeal.
MaeScott
(878 posts)....praying for our country. And sending faxes and trying to call Congress. Just one week in.
One thing, we must tie Putin, tRump and the GOP all together. Tightly.
catbyte
(34,393 posts)Ilsa
(61,695 posts)by us or at us.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)in the midst of Trump and GOP stupidity, recklessness, and evil. I know that it ain't easy, because I struggle with not freaking out too. But we need to stay calm and focused on electing progressives at all gov levels. We are more effective, when we remain calm and focused on the work to win this fight.
So take a deep breathe. Calmly look this evil and corruption in the face. Help your friends and family to stay calm and not stick their heads in the sand because of Trump's ugliness and stupidity. Hang in there.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)I'm a sometimes Buddhist. That helps. More Buddhism, less worry.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)SCVDem
(5,103 posts)I MISS OBAMA!!!
For a presidential fix I watched the 10 best Jed Bartlett clips on YouTube. Pure class!
Toby Ziegler: ...If I were an actor or a writer or uh, uh, uh, a producer in Hollywood and someone were to start coming at me with lists of things that were American and un-American I'd start to think that this was sounding eerily familiar.
President Josiah Bartlet: Do I look like Joe McCarthy to you, Toby?
Toby Ziegler: No, sir. Nobody ever looks like Joe McCarthy. That's how they get in the door in the first place.
(Okay, Ted Cruz.)
I guess that's why I like Lawrence O'Donnell. He helped write these memorable lines.
Smickey
(3,324 posts)I watched that episode last night. I did not know L.O. helped to write.
Girard442
(6,075 posts)...he didn't even notice he'd thrown up all over his shirt?
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)He lies. Again.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)* Illegitimate KGOP Regime, Inc.
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)Who knows who might be swayed.
So say it each and every time he lies. And then say it again and again.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)Trumpy DEFAULT position is to lie. No one should expect that Trumpy tells the truth the first time, the second time, or any time thereafter. He's a lying machine and his batteries will never run out for as long as his heart is pumping. Nothing will stop him from lying.
And the news media STILL hasn't caught on! That Trumpy lies is STILL breaking news! It's his NORMAL, people!
If the news media treats EVERY Trumpy statement as a lie, we're approaching accuracy in journalism.
LakeArenal
(28,819 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)irisblue
(32,978 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)irisblue
(32,978 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)liberaltrucker
(9,129 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)Longtime lurker 99
(88 posts)If Obama showed emotion like this he would be characterized as the angry black man
gordianot
(15,238 posts)The same characteristics on ANY other demographic would not be tolerated.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)What a pathetic little man-baby. Bannon, time to change his nappy!
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)This is the type of brainless red meat thrown to Trump's caveman base.
bdamomma
(63,868 posts)Get these fucking people out now.
And who knows what Putin is saying to him today, probably patting him on the head for being such a bully.
We have to stop this man now I am not afraid just ANGRY!!!!!!!!!!!!
2naSalit
(86,636 posts)he loves the adrenaline of the attack. Notice that he always brings these long past issues in every conversation in public view and if there's nobody around, he gets in the twit machine and start telling everyone all about it once again. I'm sure that the more focus on the stolen election and Ptuin ties come to public view, the more outrageous the squirrel triggers will become. Putin is disappearing people over this, there's a big bunch of there there and they are getting nervous because they are slowly being exposed. And the electorate isn't thrilled with them.
gademocrat7
(10,658 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,217 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,720 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)I'm sure he probably heard it second hand through Fox but something drove him to this,
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)Fla Dem
(23,677 posts)tblue37
(65,391 posts)Mira
(22,380 posts)I think he is a poster baby for just about all personality disorders and in no way fit to do anything but pose in front of the mirror.
He is leading this country by braggadocio, impulse, and brain farts.
bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)You must tell us, truthfully, how you did it.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,432 posts)The Truth will come out, but it won't be from Trumpy.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)I try to keep the image out of my head but I just can't help myself.
Every time I see any Tweet attributed to Trump I can't help but
envision him authoring it at 3 AM while seated on the crapper.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)Botany
(70,510 posts)I think I found the answer.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028551242#post7
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)He can protest all he wants, but Trump absolutely needs, craves and is obsessed with media coverage. It would drive him batshit crazy if no one in the media was the least bit interested in what he had to say.
BainsBane
(53,034 posts)They are never anything but a sideshow.
aggiesal
(8,916 posts)"Never under estimate the stupidity of the American voting public."
To answer your question;
we under estimated the stupidity of the American voting public.
I blame FOX, and the DNC for this.
Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)The people he has with him in the WH clearly want RW agenda to be the primary narrative in this country. If we don't secure our elections and voting systems to be open and fair, we are looking at GOP rule indefinitely. The only way to change the ways things are is to vote in new politicians, and if our elections are tampered with, we won't be able to that.
We have this unbelievably incompetent person in the WH because our current system failed on many fronts. We have GOP majority in state and federal legislatures and governorships. Elections and voting must be our priority before we have zero say about it.
TalenaGor
(1,104 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And the least informed voters are constantly told by FOX that they are the best informed.
The GOP has been promoting the liberal media meme for so long that people accept it as a fact. Even though 90% of the media is corporate owned and controlled, Trump's people know that the media is controlled by liberals.
So when all of your sources of information are FOX and similar outlets, the outcome is obvious.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)How much more obvious could something be? Yet the corporate media propaganda machine hides in plain sight from the brainwashed RW sheeple. Sadly, as somebody said, it's much easier to fool someone than to convince them they've been fooled.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)The liberal media meme started in the Vietnam War era when Woodward and Bernstein came out with the information from Deep Throat. Plus there were numerous stories about Pentagon waste and the horrors of Vietnam.
But politicians learned from that and now the media is only allowed to be embedded, the better to control what is reported. And I cannot recall the last story I read about waste in the war spending.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)but protected participants., identified with the warriors they join. It is much, much more difficult to remain objective.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)is to empathize with and to a degree cover for the troops who are protecting them.
And the print media is so much weaker now. Even the larger papers have very few investigative reporters.