It seems Donald Trump has been pressuring the park service to produce photos that back up his claims regarding crowd size at his inauguration. What is it with this man and his obsession with crowd size? Is he so insecure that he cannot accept the fact that another President may have had larger crowds at their inauguration? And what difference does it make anyway? This is just plain childish.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-pressured-park-service-to-back-up-his-claims-about-inauguration-crowd/2017/01/26/12a38cb8-e3fc-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html?utm_term=.4ce552b2b185
27 Jan 17
Originally posted by mchillIt goes beyond this. His constant excoriation of the media is part of a campaign aimed at silencing, or at least reducing the efficacy of, media in general, and replacing it with his own propaganda machine. Fox News, anyone?
It seems Donald Trump has been pressuring the park service to produce photos that back up his claims regarding crowd size at his inauguration. What is it with this man and his obsession with crowd size? Is he so insecure that he cannot accept the fact that another President may have had larger crowds at their inauguration? And what difference does it make any ...[text shortened]... guration-crowd/2017/01/26/12a38cb8-e3fc-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html?utm_term=.4ce552b2b185
27 Jan 17
Originally posted by mchillMaybe the crowds are afraid Madonna might blow them all up.
It seems Donald Trump has been pressuring the park service to produce photos that back up his claims regarding crowd size at his inauguration. What is it with this man and his obsession with crowd size? Is he so insecure that he cannot accept the fact that another President may have had larger crowds at their inauguration? And what difference does it make any ...[text shortened]... guration-crowd/2017/01/26/12a38cb8-e3fc-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html?utm_term=.4ce552b2b185
Originally posted by SuzianneReducing the efficacy of the media?
It goes beyond this. His constant excoriation of the media is part of a campaign aimed at silencing, or at least reducing the efficacy of, media in general, and replacing it with his own propaganda machine. Fox News, anyone?
That's Trump's master plan?
Genius!
This guy found a time machine, went back several decades and began the long con of removing every shred of integrity, every vestige of truth and then replaced those with the propaganda of power elite script...
and THEN ran for president!
Here is a (non-FAKE) NEWS flash, princess: The MSM hasn't had credibility for years.
Originally posted by mchillLook beyond the superficial and see what's actually being said.
It seems Donald Trump has been pressuring the park service to produce photos that back up his claims regarding crowd size at his inauguration. What is it with this man and his obsession with crowd size? Is he so insecure that he cannot accept the fact that another President may have had larger crowds at their inauguration? And what difference does it make any ...[text shortened]... guration-crowd/2017/01/26/12a38cb8-e3fc-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html?utm_term=.4ce552b2b185
Just as the puerile have been quick to jump on here claiming 'he lies! he lies' in order to set the tone and the content of the narrative, Trump jumped on the MSM to immediately expose them and their quest to frame things in an unflattering way toward him.
What was really a slam dunk has become a ship storm of accusation: truth is nowhere near the side of the claims of MSM, and yet we are barraged with the same mini-paragraph of crap rehashed in multiple forms, all in the effort to call up 'down' and down 'up.'
This isn't about the crowd size, it's about what's going to be reported: facts or propaganda?
27 Jan 17
Originally posted by FreakyKBHLike "the earth is flat"?
Look beyond the superficial and see what's actually being said.
Just as the puerile have been quick to jump on here claiming 'he lies! he lies' in order to set the tone and the content of the narrative, Trump jumped on the MSM to immediately expose them and their quest to frame things in an unflattering way toward him.
What was really a slam dunk has bec ...[text shortened]... '
This isn't about the crowd size, it's about what's going to be reported: facts or propaganda?
Or "we never went to the moon"?
Or "global warming is a Chinese hoax"?
Or, or, or, or....
27 Jan 17
Originally posted by mchillI reckon it's a Freudian compensation for his small hands.
It seems Donald Trump has been pressuring the park service to produce photos that back up his claims regarding crowd size at his inauguration. What is it with this man and his obsession with crowd size? Is he so insecure that he cannot accept the fact that another President may have had larger crowds at their inauguration? And what difference does it make any ...[text shortened]... guration-crowd/2017/01/26/12a38cb8-e3fc-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html?utm_term=.4ce552b2b185
27 Jan 17
Originally posted by EladarIt's this blatant inversion of what the right did to Obama for 8 long years that is staggering in its brazenness.
He is just reminding them that he's the President now, not Obama.
Republicans have been disrespected for some time now. He won't stand for people working under him to disrespect him.
I see nothing wrong with that.
Who has been disrespected? Which President did Mitch McConnell vow to obstruct at every turn?
To paraphrase Bill Maher, the GOP is now the party of whiny little bitches whose stock in trade is to call out the Dems as being whiny. Oh the hypocrisy, and all in the same breath. The right really has become the party of Lenin. Accuse your opponent of what you are doing. Check.....
27 Jan 17
Originally posted by mchillDepressingly it seems the next 4-8 years will be a referendum on the size of the Trump penis.
....What is it with this man and his obsession with crowd size? Is he so insecure that he cannot accept the fact that another President may have had larger crowds at their inauguration? And what difference does it make anyway? This is just plain childish....
Originally posted by kmax87I could live with that if that was ALL we had to worry about from a Trumpf card.
Depressingly it seems the next 4-8 years will be a referendum on the size of the Trump penis.
He doesn't seem to even know Mexico is our biggest trade partner at a quarter TRILLION a year and he is screwing around threatening to put on a tarrif on incoming Mexican goods? I think he has been talked out of that but it just goes to show you what an idiot he is. He has all the diplomatic charm of a cobra riding a Brahma bull in a china shop.
27 Jan 17
Originally posted by SuzianneYes.
Like "the earth is flat"?
Or "we never went to the moon"?
Or "global warming is a Chinese hoax"?
Or, or, or, or....
Yes.
Not heard that one; as many scientists have opined, my position on global warming is an all-time thing and no need to panic.
However, that being said, weren't you supposed to school me on the definition of climate change?
You fell uncharacteristically silent when faced with proof of my claim regarding what the phenomenon is.
Curious.
27 Jan 17
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Originally posted by sonhouse"He doesn't seem to even know..."
I could live with that if that was ALL we had to worry about from a Trumpf card.
He doesn't seem to even know Mexico is our biggest trade partner at a quarter TRILLION a year and he is screwing around threatening to put on a tarrif on incoming Mexican goods? I think he has been talked out of that but it just goes to show you what an idiot he is. He has all the diplomatic charm of a cobra riding a Brahma bull in a china shop.
You, sir, are an idiot.
27 Jan 17
Originally posted by kmax87Bachmann was disrespected when she showed up on a late night show.
It's this blatant inversion of what the right did to Obama for 8 long years that is staggering in its brazenness.
Who has been disrespected? Which President did Mitch McConnell vow to obstruct at every turn?
To paraphrase Bill Maher, the GOP is now the party of whiny little bitches whose stock in trade is to call out the Dems as being whiny. Oh the hypo ...[text shortened]... ght really has become the party of Lenin. Accuse your opponent of what you are doing. Check.....
It never would have happened to a Democrat, but mainstream American culture believes that Republicans are free game to be belittled.
Trump is standing up and putting people in their place.