Trump speculated that the media doesn’t report on terrorist attacks.
He was probably thinking of the Bowling Green Massacre, which never happened.
““You’ve seen what happened in Paris, and Nice. All over Europe, it’s happening,” he said to the assembled military leaders. “It’s gotten to a point where it’s not even being reported. And in many cases the very, very dishonest press doesn’t want to report it. They have their reasons, and you understand that.”
“The comment immediately harked back to comments from senior adviser Kellyanne Conway on MSNBC last week. “I bet it’s brand-new information to people that President Obama had a six-month ban on the Iraqi refugee program after two Iraqis came here to this country, were radicalized and were the masterminds behind the Bowling Green massacre,” she said. “Most people don’t know that because it didn’t get covered.”
In this statement, he implied that terrorist attacks occur and are never reported because the media have their own agenda. To protect terrorists? Could this delusional behavior be caused by his hair growth drug?
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DeVos? Denials? Lies and Liars. From here on in, I blame the American public and American media for allowing this insane charade to continue. Shame on him. Shame on us.
What bothers me is not that we elected this fool, but that so many believed him.
We always have charlatans
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Adambaum,
I don’t often watch the BBC. The American media call ISIS “terrorists.” You are uninformed, young man.
How can you say I am uninformed….where is your evidence…by one comment I make?
Here is one of my over twenty blogs…http://ukrainecrisisanamericandisaster.blogspot.com/
I am not at all surprised. The American people elected Richard Nixon (twice). Politicians do not always tell the truth. Get used to it.
Charles,
Are you saying thAt we should not expect politicians to tell the truth?
Nixon was an amateur. Trump is the best at making up his own facts.
To be fair to Nixon, he was deeply informed about foreign affairs and history. He read books. Trump makes Nixon look good.
I don’f feel shame, nor did I elect this con artist and his crew of bigots. It is self destructive to place blame on at least 50% of the country who voted against them and are now organizing and fighting these vultures. And most of here fall into that group.
I personally would far rather hear plans to resist than the constant din of blame placing…and the strange rationalizations of who is the MASTER of this disaster.
Those of us who teach public policy, government, democratic institutions, etc. and who remain active in battling for our freedom, are not the culprits.
How demoralizing to read this stuff painting all of us with the same brush…and I would prefer true critical thinking to get out in the world and organize against these fascists…but I wonder about how many fascists from within keep cutting us up with false insults.
Do the hard work of learning economics and history, and not sitting safely in your room just bitching and moaning. Be god damn activists in the streets…write letters and articles…doubt that many are doing any of this…and I am getting sick of this same stuff. Love to learn from a handful here, but am annoyed at the worthless blame placing. We need to fight for better Dems to represent us, for better education so new generations understand how our government operates.
And again, I add, we need better educated voters, not more voters who are easily influenced by the big money sound bites…or voteria cash back.
“[W]e need better educated voters”
We are educators. We SHOULD be good at educating the ignorant. But years of being told to be “guides at the side” and that “telling” is bad pedagogy have taken a toll on our abilities. Were we teachers to march into a Republican neighborhood, what would we do? Convene group work around a primary source? Provide a laptop and encourage clueless voters to do some research? These are the teaching tools du jour. Personally I think a flip-book with a few simple vivid graphics or stats would be more effective. E.g. a graphic showing how the proportion of wealth in the hands of the .1% has grown since the 70’s. Or a map showing all the countries that offer citizens free health care. Facts are powerful. We teachers should be the purveyor of facts.
Great comment…great idea. Let’s collaborate on creating the flip book. We as educators know how to collaborate. Contact me if you are interested.
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Not delusional. Deliberate lying.
No, I am not sure about that . Perhaps a week ago I might have agreed. His lack of control is obviously beyond normal behavior.
There has been much speculation as to whether Drumpf even is aware that he is lying. Whatever his mental problems are, they must not be allowed to destroy all America’s relationships, chase away our allies, and downgrade the nation to even more of a Banana Republic.
Tomorrow Bernie debates Ted Cruz…hope they get questions about all this and are asked how to circumvent the hydra headed Bannon/Drumpf/Spicer/Conway/Kushner/Miller.
I don’t think it’s the hair drug, though his doctor who takes the same drug seems loopy, too. Trump’s insanity is more insidious and saturating than most drug side-effects of that kind, I think. Though, if it’s coupled with Alzheimer’s, that’s another story. Still, his craziness has been with him for a very long time, and he remains highly functional, in a primal sort of way. Not presidentially, or remotely diplomatically functional, but I hope you know what I’m trying to say.
“They have their reasons, and you understand that.”
Let that sink in a while. And the fact that he would pick an audience at the most important military base we have to say this. Let that sink in too.
It says the Sovie military refuse to fire on the Russian people. Hopefully we are as lucky..
But the czar’s army did in 1905. As did the East German army on June 17, 1953 (and let’s not forget the Wall shootings).
I have become fearful of our military, especially since it has been generations since we’ve had the draft. The lifers I know (and I have them in my family) have little understanding about the Constitution or American history. Even though they’ve drawn a government paycheck their whole lives, they are the most anti-government people I know–excepting, of course the military. I used to think I was unnecessarily paranoid, but since Nov. 8, everything is on the table.
GregB
My statement was one of concern not confidence.
As usual we agree.
Just watched my recorded CBS evening news. Pelley’s opening line: “President Trump told a U.S. military audience that there have been terrorist attacks that no one knows about because the media chooses not to report them. It has been a busy day for presidential statements divorced from reality.”
We need more of this!
Joel and friends, in case you missed Olbermann’s latest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bwj_CGFaEU
Nothing new, but nice style putting it all together.
Olbermann was great thanks for the link.
On a positive note, I have seen two pieces in the last hour calling for a nation wide action. One calling for a Nation wide strike and day of outrage that shuts down the economy, a strike and boycott of all commercial enterprises for the 17th of February.
The second a call from the organizers of the woman’s march for a day with out women. Pick a date and put it together . When corporate America gets fed up enough with Trump enough pressure will be brought on Republicans for impeachment. We see it happening already .
I say as much as I despise Ryan, we go right past Pence as well . Impeachment is a political decision . The high crime of Andrew Johnson firing the Secretary of War. Or the definition of oral sex. lol
Yes – BUT- there are people out there who will believe every word that comes out of his mouth BECAUSE he is telling them what they want to believe. He is a master of that kind of manipulation – he parlayed it all the way to the White House. Telling people what they want to believe is the mark of a skilled confidence man, a fraud.
He plays three card monty…and sleight of hand…and the media falls for it. Watch what Bannon is doing while Drumpf is ranting.
That is how we are losing Dodd Frank, health care, and our hard fought freedoms.
PolitiFact was quick to set Trump’s Pants on Fire, but in the book of Alternative facts, what the malignant narcissist President Littlefingers Donald Trump says is true, because he wrote that book.
“But recent attacks on U.S. soil — including the 2015 attack in San Bernardino, Calif., and the 2016 attacks on an Orlando nightclub, a New York City street and a college campus in Columbus, Ohio — have received heavy media attention, often including live coverage for hours at a time and continuing coverage for days afterward.”
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/feb/06/donald-trump/donald-trump-wrong-media-not-reporting-terrorism-a/
And back when it was reported in August 2016 by right-wing news sites that John Kerry suggested that media coverage of terrorism is reported less often, Snopes says,
Just scroll to the conclusion and skip all the evidence Snopes cites.
http://www.snopes.com/john-kerry-suggests-media-cover-terrorism-less/
And NPR reports on this latest Trumped up Alternate Fact alelgation, “Numerous journalists have been killed by terrorists, including freelance reporter James Foley, who was the first American to die at the hands of ISIS in 2014. Many others have died covering fighting related to the war on terrorism, including NPR photographer David Gilkey and translator Zabihullah Tamanna, who were killed last June while covering the fighting in Afghanistan. The Committee to Protect Journalists keeps a tally of journalists killed each year.”
http://www.npr.org/2017/02/06/513777052/trump-says-media-fail-to-report-terrorist-attacks-white-house-promises-list
This man reaches new lows every day. I genuinely fear for the wellbeing of this country.
Can the press sue him for libel?
No but they can refuse to cover the clown show live and only show fact checked dissected clips. But instead we will have talking head clown shows.
This an outrage, a scandal, a serious breach of faith and criminal in a moral sense. This is as serious as it gets, it’s a warning that worse is coming. Trump has defamed and slandered judges and he’s got an ongoing war against the media. The man should be impeached for trying to intimidate, defame and delegitimize judges and their opinions. This man is not fit to be president but all of us here knew that a long time ago. It could happen here (the USA), it did happen here.
Only the Repubs can start impeachment proceedings even though he has committed crimes. Who among them has the cajones to do that? They love what he is doing…it is everything even the craziest and most evil among them has not been able to do. And where are the Dems? Bring out the CLOWNS.
When this hits the bottom line of corporate America their little stooges in the Congress will fall in line.
Trump’s strongman sound bites are not for the critical thinkers they are for his followers to build their ideology.
YES
Good one, Diane, his hair growth drug. Love it.
He’s mentally ill … delusional. Where are the “head” doctors?
“By filling the media space with bizarre inventions and brazen denials, purveyors of fake news hope to mobilize potential supporters with righteous wrath—and to demoralize potential opponents by nurturing the idea that everybody lies and nothing matters. A would-be kleptocrat is actually better served by spreading cynicism than by deceiving followers with false beliefs: Believers can be disillusioned; people who expect to hear only lies can hardly complain when a lie is exposed.”
— David Frum in a current Atlantic article, which I cannot stop thinking about.
Diane, I hope you’ll feature it on your page:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/how-to-build-an-autocracy/513872/
Gloria..It is a great article…Frum is making more sense that most pundits, and most Dems.
Diane did feature the article a few days ago.
Jeeze… he is delusional and stirring up trouble… it is BANNON DOING THIS… Where is Bernie? Trump needs to b e stopped now… before this goes too far.
Who will begin the impeachment ?
Enough! This, not the Muslim ban or the looney cabinet picks, should be the #1 thing we’re protesting: Trump’s brazen, malicious lying designed to undermine the courts and the press. This is extremely dangerous, especially as many of his supporters have guns and are itching to use them. I think it’s just a matter of time before journalists get assassinated by pro-Trump vigilantes. Hate speech has consequences. Vile, vile human being.
YES
A further outrage Spicer claims protestors are being paid .
http://crooksandliars.com/2017/02/sean-spicer-trump-protesters-are-not
Someone should pick a time for millions to hit the street to tell him to go f— himself.
A few years ago, when I was the sole protester at a Walmart on Black Friday, the agitated manager came out and accused all Black Friday protesters of being paid by unions. This is a wide-spread meme on the Right. I wonder how many believe it, or just utter it cynically to discredit us.
The Walton Family Foundation is the prime donor (with Broad) to kill the teacher unions (and all unions), and they also funded the Open Carry legislation and want it passed in every state. You are lucky the manage did not beat you up…but thanks for being that brave protester.
Networks should refuse to cover him live – or at the very least, a 7 second delay.
We don’t need to hear all the ‘alternative facts’ from the Conway and Spicer whores, but we do need to hear every word that Bannon is saying at the NSC and to legislators et al. And we need to shout loudly at our major press such as the NY Times, the LA Times, the Washington Post, etc. to report on Bannon’s influence and the detriment it is to our democracy. Some media has done better than others.
When are we going to Occupy the news sources and demand consistent and accurate dispersion of national news? Another job for RESIST.
I object to the use of the word “wh- – – – s!” They are taxpayer funded civil servants now! Huge 😉 and 🙂 .
Gosh Greg…forgot that we pay them for selling themselves as civil servants for pieces of silver…and gold.
With all due respect, Trump is right about the media but the media is right about Trump.
Basically, the media does not like Trump because he has rightfully accused the media of holding a bias against him (after all, he is a monster!). On the other hand, the media is biased against labor and the middle and lower working classes, as it has, over the past 40 years, become increasingly biased in favor of corporate America (merely by not reporting out on labor issues, among several intentional tactics) and biased against working class and labor bread-and-butter issues.
So in this instance Trump is right: the mainstream media really is a beast and quite a joke, and thank goodness for the internet, where alternative but truthful news can so far get reported. The vile media suppressing stories about labor interests and the vile Donald suppressing civil rights, economic rights and destroying the public commons, such as public schools, medicare, and SS – both are dreadfully at fault.
Polly calling the kettle black is the predominant theme and motif to characterize ALL of Washington D.C., save for very few exceptions. The fourth estate is NO exception.
If the DNC, unions, and the Democrats need grave, acute reform, so too does the media, which has been largely socially liberal and economically oppressive.
As someone in film and a fan of American productions, Rhoda Morganstern, a fabled character, once said iconically, “New York, this is your last chance!”
Well, America, this is your last chance!
You can do it.
It may well be our last chance. I hope that you’re right that we can do it. Your optimism helps.
Well stated and true. As one who has experienced the bias you refer to on many occasions.(Been to massive labor demonstrations 10,000+ that if not for a bleep from a traffic helicopter went unseen). Labor has long been leery of the press. from lack of coverage to corporately biased reporting. This is particularly evident in the education wars where reporting seems more like press releases from corporate owned think tanks.
It is evidenced in reporting on other economic issues as well, from the effects of trade to immigration’s effect on American labor. I have tried pointing out on several occasions that the story about the robots is nonsense as it applies to jobs lost between 98 and 2007. The robots cost jobs from the 60s to the late eighties . They may cost jobs today and into the future . But it is tough to deny that the 3-5 million (depending on cut off date)factory jobs lost since the mid 90’s went to the cheapest labor markets in the world not to Robby the robot.
Same on undocumented immigration or H1b visas the narrative is as Bernie Sanders can be heard saying in Senate floor speeches .
“On the low end we are told that these are jobs that Americans don’t want and on the high end they are jobs that Americans are too stupid or lazy to pursue.”
That these are not immigration problems but are labor law problems, that enable American employers to exploit cheap labor. Exploit on both ends of the wage scale, never makes it into the discussion . Construction is particularly vulnerable to the false corporate narrative .Which American would want to be a carpenter or an electrician earning as much or more than the average teacher?
What the lack of honest reporting has enabled is demagogues to fill the void and villainize immigrants, rather than hold employers responsible. Corporate America is thrilled to see immigrants chased down rather than CEO’s in pin stripes. Ask Tyson foods.
Part of the problem has been consolidation of both the print media and mass media a process well under way on its own. But this was exacerbated by Clinton deregulation that allowed consolidation of print and mass media in the same market as well . Rupert Murdoch holds a special place in his heart for Bill Clinton (LOL)who allowed him to own the NY Post, which has become a rag, I would not wrap fish in and Fox 5 in the same city, a key early part of his empire in the USA.
The advent of internet news sites has filled the void but has allowed many to choose their own reality. With sites like Info Wars the main source of Trumps news after he flips through the headlines in the National Enquirer filling the minds of the delusional. As it is time for public funding of elections, it may be time for a new way to fund news media that provides public funds but with out government control.
What stories about labor interests has the “vile media” been suppressing?
Let us start with the attacks on teachers and their unions . Do you think the media has done a good job of covering the real issues in education.
Go see if you can find this story in any of the major news media . You will see a story from 2 weeks before where there were 31 arrests . The crowd size was about 30,000 .
http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2017/01/31/rally-against-city-council-construction-bill.html
But put 5 Tea party supporters on beach in Malibu and it was a nation wide feed .
Glad to be of service
The New York papers have written many stories about the safety problems in the NYC construction industry. I don’t watch cable news, but it looks like Time Warner is covering it on tv, too. Not a compelling example of media “suppressing” stories about labor interests.
One could have a debate about whether the media have done “a good job” covering what one considers to be “the real issues in education.” Doing a bad job does not equate to “suppressing” stories. Ignoring distinctions like that is how Trump got from “the media do a bad job covering Islamic terrorist attacks” to “the media are suppressing news of terrorist attacks.”
FLERP!
When 30,000 people show up at a demonstration on Broadway in front of City Hall in NYC at 11:30 am on a weekday that deserves a mention or two. If this were the first time it happened i would understand. When it repeatedly happens one begins to question.
Of course as soon as there is violence it becomes headline news .
Another important distinction: the distinction between believing that something “doesn’t get enough coverage” and believing something is being “suppressed.” This specific rally appears to have been covered by Time Warner cable, the Daily News, Politico, Crains, and others. The NY Times has covered this issue a lot over the past couple years, and printed an opinion piece a couple weeks ago supporting the very apprenticeship bill that appears to have been the subject of the January 31 rally. Not sure how that one slipped through the cracks if the Times and other media are trying to suppress stories about labor interests because of some political agenda. Same goes for all the other in-depth reporting the Times has done on the safety failings in the NYC building industry.
FLERP!
CBS ? NBC ? ABC? FOX ? PIX ? NY Times ? Newsday? NY Post?
I believe that is the media market in NYC perhaps I missed the coverage in the Daily news
Two weeks ago my wife participated with 30-50 other demonstrators at the Suffolk county court house a suburb of NYC , calling for justice for Soldier. A Pit-bull neglected to death by his owner . Got to watch her on several of the above mentioned networks and printed media .
30,000 demonstrating at city hall over the deaths of 30 workers on non union sites. Most of whom were undocumented workers being abused by despicable employers and you found an article in politico.
Big circulation with NY voters. .
Like I say I have seen this too often over the years .
Not every paper and network will cover every rally. They will cover (and appear to have covered) some. One can disagree with that resource allocation without believing that news of political rallies is being suppressed by media because of a political agenda.
FLERP!
Like I said this is not isolated .
News room editors make these decisions and I would argue that the needs of working class Americans are so far out of their life experience that it seldom occurs to them to allocate those resources .
It is an argument that translates to the broader nature of the sociology of power as detailed by Mills.It is explained in detail today by the likes of Thomas frank and economists like Baker. It is why the assault on Teachers and Public Schools is so symbolic of the greater problems.
It so totally out of the circles these people travel in that the life of the dog becomes news and the life of 30 workers is not .
NY is a very large city 8.5 million +-
Yup in a small town 30,000 is earth shattering . Guess what it is also very “bigly”big in the big city. Worthy of coverage by most if not all of
the local media.
If 30,000 wont do, how about a labor day parade always of political nature ,with over 100,000. A demonstration that gets Honorable mention in the middle of the 3 -5 page spread on the east Indian day parade on the same day. It gets a single line of this nature “And in Manhattan labor Marched up 5th avenue ” I hope you see some parallels to the debate on Public Education where occasionally an article covering education from the real progressives on the issue breaks through the abundance of noise.
Are you saying that, for example, the editors of the New York Times made a decision to not cover the January 31 rally because they wanted to suppress public knowledge of that event?
” I would argue that the needs of working class Americans are so far out of their life experience that it seldom occurs to them to allocate those resources” — typed my last comment before I read that sentence. It sounds like you’re suggesting that a failure to cover a labor rally is a result of an editorial blind spot, rather than an attempt to suppress public knowledge of an event.
I will say that I have worked in a news room for a NYC paper, and did not find my editor-bosses to be as distant from the “working class experience” as you suggest. We’re not talking about Grayden Carter or Kurt Andersen. These people are educated, but they’re not rich, they often come from working class circumstances, and they are often union members with acute anxiety about losing their jobs and livelihood. They also do not unilaterally dictate what stories reporters write. Beat reporters generate many if not most of the story ideas, which makes perfect sense, as they’re the ones on the ground.
Anyway, seems like this is one of those agree-to-disagree things.
FLERP, I am taking my spaceship and returning back down to earth.
The American mainstream media has the will to report out on anything it wants. It has not had the will. Maybe the internal workings within the media reveals many people who want to report out on labor issues, but the executives at the top make the ultimate decisions, and they have failed miserably, if you REALLY have kept track of mainstream media stories (the NYT included), to portray and report out on populist will and interests.
The NYT has been pro-charter school and anti-public school and unions for almost the entire length of the entire reform movement. The NYT has been anti-France unless it comes to food, fashion, and architecture. The Times loves the phrase “cradle-to-grave welfare state” to describe France and Scandinavia, article after article.
But do stay out here in outer space as long as you please. The stars and galaxies are at least beautiful to gaze upon.
NYT executives do not make the ultimate decisions about daily coverage. At the Times and most other major, reputable papers, newsrooms are allowed to function with a large degree of editorial independence — i.e. without interference from ownership or the business management. In the long-term, ideology and business interests do creep down from above. That’s part of the “culture” of a paper and it’s why the Wall Street Journal is a different kind of newspaper from The NY Times. But the big bosses simply do not control content the way that you think.
With important exceptions, the Times has indeed tilted pro-reform in its coverage of education reform over the last couple decades. This isn’t a mere expression of management’s worldview. It’s a reflection of a perspective that moved from a conservative critique to conventional wisdom over many years of discourse. It is what it is (although it may be changing). But in no way does it constitute a kind of “news suppression” equivalent to what Trump has accused the media of doing.
Agreed, FLERP. The news coverage–as opposed to editorials–is critical of reform because reporters see the facts on the ground. For example, The NY Times gushes over charters in editorials, not because of the owners, but because one man, a graduate of the University of Chicago [and African American], has been writing the education editorials for at least 25 years, and he loves charters. The reporters write exposes of charter scandals, esp Eva’s Success exclusionary practices, and it has no impact on Brent Staples’ Charter love.
What made me further concerned, as an immediate reaction to this lying attack on the press, was the possibility he, and crew, would create one such phony event in order to shut down much of what we prize. It has certainly been done before.
He tries to delegitmize what he doesn’t control.
It is possibly his instinct to loudly delegitimatize actual truth which will most effectively make him out to be the fool; the more he is exposed as truly foolish, the higher the chance that no one will take his blustering seriously.
His attack on the incident at Berkeley clearly designed to quell dissent on college campuses . That these were not college students that caused the violence is not under debate . Whether they were left wing anarchists or a false flag operation designed by the right is under debate. As Robert Reich said they looked more like a militia than anarchists and the victims were pretty media-savvy .Nailing all the talking points .
WaPo, 6 Feb. 2017:
InfoWars is behind President Trump’s idea that the media is covering up terrorist attacks
My father has been taking Finasteride for years. It is used to shrink an enlarged prostate. Unfortunately, he takes 15+ other pills and is now a resident of Dementia Land. If Trump has been taking this AND other pills (as was mentioned by him), he needs to see how they interact with each other. The older one gets, the longer meds stay in the system. If he doesn’t drink water, like most older men (my dad is 80 and was never a big water drinker), it kind of defeats the purpose of this particular med.
At this point, real outrage (not Trump’s fantasy-based tantrums), old school, non-violent, sit down strikes and, yes, hilarious mockery are probably the best chances to do something positive for our nation and the world.
In terms of humor, for example, I’d love to see someone write a hit musical that absolutely ridicules Trump and his enablers. The guy who did Hamilton obviously has the goods to pull this sort of thing off.
Or, a TV show like “All in the Family” which made the nation laugh while at the same time exposing bigotry and small mindedness. (BTW I was watching lots of “All the Family” on my free, antenna TV a couple years ago and the show has held up remarkably well over the years. Maybe because our country has NOT changed as much as we perhaps thought??)
Does Broadway and Hollywood have the guts (and bucks) these days to do this sort of thing? I don’t know….most the people who read this blog probably have a better sense of that than I do.
All I know is I absolutely love the Saturday Night Live parodies of Trump and his unusual gang of idiots.
Trump needs a good, old fashioned pie in the face. It’s times like these I sure wish Hunter S. Thompson was still alive and kicking.
P.S. Yet another snow day here in our corner of Upstate New York. The roads are an ice rink. Crappy weather, lots of cold and flu and Trump the Clown running our nation. Wow! “The Winter of Our Discontent”. Never read that Steinbeck work but just looking at the synopsis now maybe I should??? An ethical man who falls apart, taking it out on an immigrant.
Our White House: a bunch of squealing piglets that find themselves at a trough far too high to reach.
Simply grotesque.
Just some numbers: only 24% of the nation’s voters did actually vote for him. Only 24%! 50% did not vote. 80,000 in Michigan voted, but chose NO presidential candidate — no third party, just left it blank. .What I take from this is that there is an opening and a need for a real third party.
I think that he is saying that the media does no in depth research on these events, the killer is always identified early, then killed, case closed.
No, Joseph, he said the media are suppressing coverage of terrorist attacks. That’s a lie.
Right, Diane. Thank you for stating this.
We live in country where civilians rule the military, and need not be former soldiers or heroes. I suspect that loathing Trump for many is visceral, absent one event or statement that you mention. I do see him in the mold of an Andrew Jackson, whose picture sits on his wall, and that Jackson would have received the same feed back, as did Teddy, when he broke up the existing economic conglomerates, as he was torn to pieces. The last President with cajones was JFK. Trump’s cabinet is a bit scary with the likes of Betsy DeVos and he is outside the two party system, but it is interesting to figure out what he is doing outside the media filter.
Here is one independent interpretation.
http://www.voltairenet.org/article195196.html
Funny, Joseph, I view him as a malignant narcissist. Not sure he knows how to read. He is mean. Reminds me of a tin-horn dictator with a personality disorder.
Teddy Roosevelt was perceived that way, a very bombastic war mongerer. I think that many voted for him because he was willing to take on the good fight. Obama was knocked down at every turn. Obama had the worst record going after whistle blowers and not closing Gitmo “immediately” as he promised. His easy going compromising style showed that he was not going to the matt for his constituents. He is vacationing on a private island of a millionaire. He and the Clintons are the remnants of the Dem party and many are waiting to see what Trump can do. Narcissism always comes with politics unless you are Jimmy Carter.
How dare you compare the great Teddy Roosevelt to this numbskull