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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 04:37 PM Aug 2017

Trump gets a folder full of positive news about himself twice a day

https://news.vice.com/story/trump-folder-positive-news-white-house

It’s known as the “propaganda document”
By Alex Thompson Aug 8, 2017

Twice a day since the beginning of the Trump administration, a special folder is prepared for the president. The first document is prepared around 9:30 a.m. and the follow-up, around 4:30 p.m. Former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and former Press Secretary Sean Spicer both wanted the privilege of delivering the 20-to-25-page packet to President Trump personally, White House sources say.

These sensitive papers, described to VICE News by three current and former White House officials, don’t contain top-secret intelligence or updates on legislative initiatives. Instead, the folders are filled with screenshots of positive cable news chyrons (those lower-third headlines and crawls), admiring tweets, transcripts of fawning TV interviews, praise-filled news stories, and sometimes just pictures of Trump on TV looking powerful.

One White House official said the only feedback the White House communications shop, which prepares the folder, has ever gotten in all these months is: “It needs to be more fucking positive.” That’s why some in the White House ruefully refer to the packet as “the propaganda document.” ..........................



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Trump gets a folder full of positive news about himself twice a day (Original Post) L. Coyote Aug 2017 OP
Trump is unfit to be POTUS Gothmog Aug 2017 #1
OBAMA's daily "purple folder" contained letters from actual people underpants Aug 2017 #2
Most of them telling him their problems and trouble and asking for help. Not jerk off praise. TeamPooka Aug 2017 #21
It is sad to say but I am not surprised. They should call the folder "The Pickle Papers". BigmanPigman Aug 2017 #3
Ha! DesertRat Aug 2017 #5
Combine this with today's threats to North Korea DesertRat Aug 2017 #4
Frame this and put it in front of his face: dalton99a Aug 2017 #6
hmmm. Thor_MN Aug 2017 #23
1.5 million people came to my inauguration dalton99a Aug 2017 #36
Those items would be... 3catwoman3 Aug 2017 #7
First they create the fake good news and plant it somewhere .... L. Coyote Aug 2017 #14
LOL NewJeffCT Aug 2017 #33
Recycling... syringis Aug 2017 #19
the article says there are a lot of pictures every day. :) TeamPooka Aug 2017 #22
Wow. progressoid Aug 2017 #8
This is all getting to be absurd CatMor Aug 2017 #9
Pathetic. nt DLevine Aug 2017 #10
Hannity could filll 50 pages every day n/t hibbing Aug 2017 #11
Photos of him puckering up and blowing... kisses... Beartracks Aug 2017 #30
Too long for him ... UTUSN Aug 2017 #12
I take that to mean he prefers to read fiction Siwsan Aug 2017 #13
So he lives in an alternate reality... Xolodno Aug 2017 #15
He's insane and he's President. NT enough Aug 2017 #16
One page daily national security briefing and Progressive dog Aug 2017 #17
Okay, so if Rinse Penis was doing this once a day does that mean OldHippieChick Aug 2017 #18
Yes but he still watches TV so he knows we hate him flibbitygiblets Aug 2017 #20
No syringis Aug 2017 #25
He has major filters. Duppers Aug 2017 #37
Wow Corgigal Aug 2017 #24
Sad! tanyev Aug 2017 #26
Poor narcissistic man child needs a twice daily ego fluffer... WePurrsevere Aug 2017 #27
Kim Jong-trump. George II Aug 2017 #28
Pence and the rest of the Congress had damn well better be paying attention DK504 Aug 2017 #29
So this is what they spend their time doing. There is no governing going on in this government. LuckyLib Aug 2017 #31
This is how they spend taxpayer's hard-earned money. L. Coyote Aug 2017 #32
Along with a bottle and 2 diaper changes. Historic NY Aug 2017 #34
He's nuts. mountain grammy Aug 2017 #35
This movie line rings a bell... Duppers Aug 2017 #38
his daily dose bdamomma Aug 2017 #39
Now they have a channel of his own making for him to watch. The 'real news" .... L. Coyote Aug 2017 #40

TeamPooka

(24,248 posts)
21. Most of them telling him their problems and trouble and asking for help. Not jerk off praise.
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 05:40 PM
Aug 2017

false equivalence alert.

dalton99a

(81,568 posts)
36. 1.5 million people came to my inauguration
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 08:50 PM
Aug 2017

1.5 million people came to my inauguration
1.5 million people came to my inauguration
1.5 million people came to my inauguration

3catwoman3

(24,032 posts)
7. Those items would be...
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 05:01 PM
Aug 2017

...some real "fake news." There cannot possibly be 20-25 pages of legitimately favorable news items about this flaming moron.

Whoever compiles this fawning bullshit should go by the same guidelines that Mr. Attention-Span-Of-A-Gnat requires for his daily briefing - one page of bullet points.

The emperor has no clothes. The emperor also has no brain.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
14. First they create the fake good news and plant it somewhere ....
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 05:16 PM
Aug 2017

Like a circular firing squad, except shooting bullshit instead of bullets.

syringis

(5,101 posts)
19. Recycling...
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 05:32 PM
Aug 2017

Job has been done once and for all. Otherwise, where would you want them to find the time, twice a day to build such file? Unless if someone in the staff, is a descendant of Heracles...

They just give a makeover. He don't read anyway, why bother?

CatMor

(6,212 posts)
9. This is all getting to be absurd
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 05:07 PM
Aug 2017

Americans and the World should not have to put up with all Trumps nonsense. Something must be done.

Xolodno

(6,398 posts)
15. So he lives in an alternate reality...
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 05:20 PM
Aug 2017

...and his staff enables him.

Makes me wonder, what kind of fit of rage he would go on if he didn't get his twice a day "atta boy" fix.

And when did this start? During his Presidency or when he was running his real estate empire?

Progressive dog

(6,918 posts)
17. One page daily national security briefing and
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 05:25 PM
Aug 2017

20 to 25 pages of Trump praise twice a day. Yeah right, the security briefing is at most a short paragraph.
He needs to be locked up in an insane asylum. I was thinking Bedlam in London would be best for him if the UK would help us out.

OldHippieChick

(2,434 posts)
18. Okay, so if Rinse Penis was doing this once a day does that mean
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 05:25 PM
Aug 2017

that Kelly is actually expected to take over that chore? Really? Would he lower himself to such a repugnant role? And if he doesn't do it, is he gone? Does no one realize the damage this kind of thing is doing to our country? Why don't they care?

syringis

(5,101 posts)
25. No
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 06:10 PM
Aug 2017

he has a selective brain (?)...uh, I mean the strange substance that take place off.

He ditches what he dislikes, or calls it "fake news" and keeps the praises...

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
24. Wow
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 06:03 PM
Aug 2017

Whoever has that job should also start writing some great fiction books.

I can't almost think of a harder job.

WePurrsevere

(24,259 posts)
27. Poor narcissistic man child needs a twice daily ego fluffer...
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 06:20 PM
Aug 2017

With Spicer, Priebus or Pooch gone does that mean that General Kelly gets that 'fun' job?

I bet they're spacing things a bit more lately so less 'good news' takes up the same amount of pages... lol.

DK504

(3,847 posts)
29. Pence and the rest of the Congress had damn well better be paying attention
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 06:27 PM
Aug 2017

to this insanity. This fucker is insane and needs to be removed by what ever means available via the Constitution.

Duppers

(28,125 posts)
38. This movie line rings a bell...
Tue Aug 8, 2017, 09:13 PM
Aug 2017

"He may have advanced delusionary schizophrenia with involuntary narcissistic rage."

From "Me, Myself, and Irene."

If it weren't so sickening and scary.


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