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Trump Comes Face to Face With His Nightmare: A News Cycle He Can't Control
The president is frustrated as his efforts to drum up fear of the caravan get pushed off the front page.
Lachlan Markay, Sam Stein
10.26.18 10:59 PM ET
Donald Trump is living a personal nightmare. Just days before a critical election, he finds himself unable to influence what the political press is covering.
The president has spent the last week attempting to gin up media coverage of a caravan of migrants making their way from Honduras to the Mexico-U.S. border. He’s heralded his signing of a major bill to combat the opioid epidemic. He’s touted additional—though currently nonexistent—legislation to further slash middle-class taxes. But a series of real-world events—primarily the dispatch of explosive devices to numerous top Democratic officials by what appears to be an obsessive Trump fan— have overwhelmed that storyline. And it’s left Trump notably churlish.
“You could see the frustration,” said Eric Bolling, a conservative TV host and close Trump friend who attended a White House summit on opioid abuse on Wednesday, as the bomb scare story broke. With much fanfare, the president signed his first major piece of legislation addressing the opioid crisis, which lifted restrictions on Medicare and Medicaid coverage for addicts, among other measures. But by day’s end, that was hardly a blip on the media radar. The bomb scare story was dominating headlines and cable news coverage.
On Friday morning, hours before the bomb suspect was apprehended, Trump suggested that the bomb scares had been designed to distract the news media away from the Republican Party’s preferred agenda.
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“The momentum was clearly on the Republican side,” Bolling said. “I don’t know that this is going to change anything, but certainly as much as President Trump is campaigning...for the news story to derail, I don’t know that that is frustrating him but I would suspect that that is something behind it.”
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being willing to look at the consequences of your own actions?
Just observing his actions on the international front, one would conclude he has none of that capability at all......
is going to a pretty limited audience.....The true believers, which we know is the base of his base. Other tRump supporters are not necessarily part of that core. They like the things tRump has done so far, but may not like the man. So when a mad bomber is sending out bombs via the US postal service (even to Democratic targets), it kind of knocks other stories off the front page. Especially after the number of known bombs grew to 12+ and no way to know for sure that their were not more out there “in the system”. Nothing focuses the mind quite like the threat of bombs in the mailbox or at your post office. Who remembers what the Murrah building looked like after McVeay got through with it??
But tRump, the Ring Master, thinks he has unlimited power to make his minions jump at his command without realizing that not all of them are under his total control. His narcissism knows no bounds so he truly thinks he is in complete charge. His awakening will be rude and unpleasant. I suspect he will rant, rave and seethe as he continues to be frustrated in his attempts to control the news cycle. With any luck, he will melt down into a pool of goo like the Wicked Witch in Wizard of Oz, crying, “I’m melting....” And the people cheered and clapped.
