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dalton99a

(81,515 posts) Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:47 PM Mar 2020

He is using a national crisis to get free airtime for his thinly disguised reelection propaganda

His daily briefings are basically campaign rallies, full of lies and misinformation. There is very little new information or useful guidance.

Democrats (Pelosi, Schumer, Biden et al) should ask the networks to stop broadcasting these events in their entirety, and put an end to his ridiculous never-ending self-congratulatory bullshit.

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He is using a national crisis to get free airtime for his thinly disguised reelection propaganda (Original Post) dalton99a Mar 2020 OP

And the media need to stop playing along malaise Mar 2020 #1

He's bullied the media into softball questions only lambchopp59 Mar 2020 #5

+1 uponit7771 Mar 2020 #7

Absolutely. dalton99a Mar 2020 #15

And we gotta find a way to get our message out. RandySF Mar 2020 #2

At this point, we here at DU are just hate watching. NCDem47 Mar 2020 #3

Don't really think this is helping him. It's clear he's out of his wheelhouse, Hoyt Mar 2020 #4

Nor even today could he resist the dog whistled "the chinese virus" lambchopp59 Mar 2020 #9

Every time he says that, he pauses and smiles. As you say to make them go wild. Hoyt Mar 2020 #12

He knows exactly what he's doing dalton99a Mar 2020 #14

Unfortunately, it's not just trump that wants to blame China. Hoyt Mar 2020 #16

Notice no distancing. If they did he'd have to leave the camera frame underpants Mar 2020 #6

Yes, indeed. In_The_Wind Mar 2020 #8

The orange buffoon is beyond the pale. gademocrat7 Mar 2020 #10

Pelosi/Schumer need to hold daily briefings. radius777 Mar 2020 #11

+1. Democrats can't afford to let him frame the narrative on this issue dalton99a Mar 2020 #13

I'm sorry, but it's time that the media wakes up and realizes that they have a greater smirkymonkey Mar 2020 #17

Publicity hound. moondust Mar 2020 #18

Play them later, on tape, with fact checking not fooled Mar 2020 #19

And tonight was a two-fer rlegro Mar 2020 #20

malaise

(269,054 posts)

1. And the media need to stop playing along

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:48 PM

Mar 2020

This is madness

lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)

5. He's bullied the media into softball questions only

Reply to malaise (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:51 PM

Mar 2020

And even some of those, should the reporter mention any facts... "That's a nasty question".

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)

7. +1

Reply to malaise (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:53 PM

Mar 2020

dalton99a

(81,515 posts)

15. Absolutely.

Reply to malaise (Reply #1)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 08:49 PM

Mar 2020

RandySF

(58,900 posts)

2. And we gotta find a way to get our message out.

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:48 PM

Mar 2020

NCDem47

(2,249 posts)

3. At this point, we here at DU are just hate watching.

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:49 PM

Mar 2020

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

4. Don't really think this is helping him. It's clear he's out of his wheelhouse,

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:50 PM

Mar 2020

racism, bigotry, and xenophobia.

lambchopp59

(2,809 posts)

9. Nor even today could he resist the dog whistled "the chinese virus"

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #4)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:54 PM

Mar 2020

And the die-hard MAGAt's go wild. That is until a family member catches something...

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

12. Every time he says that, he pauses and smiles. As you say to make them go wild.

Reply to lambchopp59 (Reply #9)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 08:13 PM

Mar 2020

dalton99a

(81,515 posts)

14. He knows exactly what he's doing

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #12)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 08:48 PM

Mar 2020

He wants people to blame the Chinese for everything that is happening in the U.S. under his watch.

The body count will spike up shortly...

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)

16. Unfortunately, it's not just trump that wants to blame China.

Reply to dalton99a (Reply #14)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 08:50 PM

Mar 2020

underpants

(182,829 posts)

6. Notice no distancing. If they did he'd have to leave the camera frame

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:52 PM

Mar 2020

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213122284

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)

8. Yes, indeed.

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:53 PM

Mar 2020

gademocrat7

(10,659 posts)

10. The orange buffoon is beyond the pale.

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 07:55 PM

Mar 2020

radius777

(3,635 posts)

11. Pelosi/Schumer need to hold daily briefings.

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 08:05 PM

Mar 2020

We can't let Trump control the narrative and be the only one people see as 'doing anything'.

The stimulus is a Dem policy/idea and voters need to know that.

Trump just a few weeks ago said the virus was a hoax.

dalton99a

(81,515 posts)

13. +1. Democrats can't afford to let him frame the narrative on this issue

Reply to radius777 (Reply #11)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 08:38 PM

Mar 2020

or give himself credit when the pandemic is over

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)

17. I'm sorry, but it's time that the media wakes up and realizes that they have a greater

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 09:30 PM

Mar 2020

responsibility to the nation than to the pathetic, temper-tantrum throwing infant in the White House.

This is a crisis and they need to turn their focus on to people who can provide comforting, factual information and to people who are leaders with the nation's best interests at heart.

They need to cut him off because all he does is keep the focus on himself, and stirs up hatred and division and that is the last thing we need right now. We need a total Trump media blackout. He is not doing any good for anybody. He is just making everything worse.

moondust

(19,993 posts)

18. Publicity hound.

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 09:51 PM

Mar 2020

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He never cared about the job itself. It was always about the publicity and self-aggrandizement.

In that respect I think he has a lot in common with Lee Harvey Oswald. They both grew up in the early days of TV perhaps envying the kind of attention and recognition they saw other people getting for being on TV and craving it for themselves.

not fooled

(5,801 posts)

19. Play them later, on tape, with fact checking

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2020, 01:36 PM

Mar 2020

Jack Holmes from Esquire has the right idea, plus a good idea of what's coming next (hint: millions of dead peasants to try to save the stock market):

[link:https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a31897240/trump-social-distancing-economy-stock-market/|

Networks should already be evaluating whether carrying the president's statements live is in the public interest. (It's not—show them on tape delay with fact-checking.) But over the last 24 hours or so, it's begun to look like the stakes will soon ramp up. Because it seems Donald Trump and his advisers may be unable to contain their despair over the stock market's decline, to the point that they may call for scaling back the regime of social distancing and other mitigation measures—which public-health experts tell us could save millions of lives—in favor of getting people back to work.

rlegro

(338 posts)

20. And tonight was a two-fer

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Mon Mar 23, 2020, 10:01 PM

Mar 2020

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Because in the Central time zone, at least, his people scheduled this now-daily puffery so that it preempted the regular evening newscasts. A few tough questions were asked by some in the White House press corps but Trump just keep circling back to his "wonderful" outlook.

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