While I cringe at some of what comes out on Donald Trump’s Twitter feed, I’ve often wondered if it isn’t cringe-y like a fox, if only because so much of the Mainstream Media runs chasing after rhetorical squirrels every time he sounds off.
I’m not the only one:
President Donald Trump frequently comes under criticism for tweeting, even from his own advisers. But tweeting is probably the smartest thing he has done as president. He is able to speak directly to the American
The whole thing is worth a read.
I agree with the author’s assessment, as do many of my Trump supporting friends. One of them is a fairly high level marketing geek. He has said that Trump is playing the media like a fiddle and posits that if the media twisted his words as much as they do with GOP officials, he would use Twitter, too.
Bottom line is this: the Trump hating, anti-American media is used to controlling the meme and bullying the GOP. Trump has beat them at their own game by fighting back and they can’t do an f ing thing about it. I, for one, just chuckle every time I hear a talking bobble head having a meltdown over it.
One more observation.
As the author points out, the DemonRAT establishment has, seemingly, been toning down their Russian collusion meme. I would submit that they are now worried that Mueller’s investigation will out their culpability in the collusion, especially with the questions now arising about the Blamer in Chief and his failure to do anything about it.
Don’t feed the troll. Feeding the troll is exactly how we got here. Donald Trump is the world’s greatest troll. The media is in for a long eight years, because it’s clear they haven’t learned a thing and likely won’t.
POTUS tweets put the liberal media off balance, and a thumb in their collective eyes. I like it and find if very refreshing.
Emery……….pfft!
Takes one to know one, Emery? :^)
Guess I was trolling.
Seriously, I tend to agree with the article. Trump does troll, yes, but he’s also getting his message past gatekeepers who hate his guts in doing so. Plus, his tweets seem to have persuaded the left that he’s a few bricks short of a load, and this will probably give him the power to roll a lot of them as time goes by. CNN has already taken a huge hit to their credibility by underestimating Trump, to put it mildly. The WashPo is next in line, I think.
He’s also (for the time being anyway) is doing his daily press briefings off camera. That’s driving some of the reporters crazy.
I think it was Scott Adams (the Dilbert guy) who pointed out Trump has a habit of sending tweets really early in the morning, so it’s the first thing on everyone’s Twitter feed and therefore the lead item on every morning news story. He’s setting the agenda for the daily discussion and they’re letting him.
Even ‘covfefe’ had the media working for him. You know those internet memes that claim a person’s brain can make sense of a sentence if only the first and last letters are correct? “Despite constant negative press covfefe” comes out as “constant negative press coverage.” Every time they played the tweet, readers got Trump’s message reinforced. And the more negative the media coverage, the more reinforcement.
He might not be sending his own tweets. He’s smart enough to hire people politically savvy enough to get him elected, he might be smart enough to hire people media-savvy enough to tell him what to tweet and when.
I am not a “party guy” (to say the least).
Both the Democrats and the #Nevertrump GOP seem to believe that they live in a nation that is too good for a guy like Trump to be its president.
They don’t. I don’t. It is the antithesis of Burkean conservatism to believe that the presidency and government is the natural home of “national greatness.”
If our nation is too good to have Trump as President, please explain 1993-2000 and 2009-2016 to me.
He might not be sending his own tweets. He’s smart enough to hire people politically savvy enough to get him elected, he might be smart enough to hire people media-savvy enough to tell him what to tweet and when.
Somewhat along this line: The fact that he did not ask Laura Ingraham to be his press secretary is one of the biggest reasons I have to wonder about his capability and intelligence.
I’m not sure if she would have jumped at the opportunity, but having her as his press secretary would have been like bringing John Force’s nitro funny car to the old Friday/Saturday night street races that used to happen up in Anoka.