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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm really confused by this official bloviation from the Madman. Is this supposed to be a bad thing?
Link to tweet
Donald J. Trump?Verified account @realDonaldTrump
The Boston Globe, which was sold to the the Failing New York Times for 1.3 BILLION DOLLARS (plus 800 million dollars in losses & investment), or 2.1 BILLION DOLLARS, was then sold by the Times for 1 DOLLAR. Now the Globe is in COLLUSION with other papers on free press. PROVE IT!
7:00 AM - 16 Aug 2018
The Boston Globe is "colluding" with other newspapers to engage in a right that's been constitutionally guaranteed to them for over 200 years? Come again?
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)Did a tinfoil hat come with that tweet?
A decoder ring perhaps?
Anything?
Anything at all?
suffragette
(12,232 posts)Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)I know his supporters understood it to be a signal to attack the press (again) - because that's what it was.
The word "collusion" is one Trump is happy he got to learn, even though he clearly doesn't understand what it means.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)For good measure.
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)then why all the ruckus about the press?
It's just more of the "fake" press is out to get me BS. I'm not colluding, everyone else is colluding against me whine-fest.
And his base is responding - they've already threatened the Boston Globe.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)Its like a mash-up of too many chapters from dystopian novels.
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)Well...
htuttle
(23,738 posts)Who the hell knows anymore
One of my grandparents got like that near the end. Made no sense at all most of the time. It's like they were externalizing their internal discussions halfway through them.
Mc Mike
(9,114 posts)It made a big impression in his tiny pea brain.
treestar
(82,383 posts)not be enough and that the accusation should be proven before being taken as true. Too bad he does not use that standard when it comes to someone other than himself.
onethatcares
(16,168 posts)yad mich obem.
That's as much sense as he usually makes to this onethatcares.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)In Trumpspeak, he's accusing the Globe of espionage.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)I no get.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)What matters is that Trump told you they did something wrong, therefore you must believe it. Think of him as the Pope, only cruder and with a MAGA hat instead of a mitre.