In the more than three years since Trump descended the golden escalator at Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for President of the United States, he sure has said a lot of silly things. One of my personal favorites is his explanation of how islands work: “[Puerto Rico] is an island surrounded by water, big water, ocean water.” All presidents, of course, make gaffes, and it is not my intent to suggest that everything Trump says is senseless.
He does this for no other reason than to undermine the public’s faith in the fourth estate, which exists precisely to protect our country from sliding into autocracy. Trump admitted as much to 60 Minutes’ Leslie Stahl in October 2018 when he said he does it to discredit the news. While fake news is a serious problem today, it does not at all mean what the president uses it to mean.
Nor is pointing out that the mainstream news media cannot meaningfully be classified as fake news meant to suggest that news organizations are neutral. On the contrary, many news outlets have political biases. Some lean to the left and others lean to the right. But political bias, which refers to point of view, is not propaganda.
He dog-whistled his supporters a number of times to violence against journalists and Dems?
Sophistry.
No, yours is EnemyOfThePeople
It's fine. It's you who need to shut up
Newsweek instead of biased trash talking why don't you become a real source of news and hire some real journalists
When was it 'just silly and offensive'?
This is the exact problem. It has always been dangerous and undemocratic. And media continues to be overwhelmed by it and minimize and go along with craziness
I've been saying that ever since he got elected. (Coming from a Canadian)
Still clinging to shit, eh? 🤣🙄🤣
Ignorant voters have been devastating...
Your way out of line promoting lies not news
Mueller
Trump is wholly UNAMERICAN.
He gets results. realDonaldTrump is making America great, dragging her into the future kicking and screaming, Hes fixed the economy
Glad somebody Noticed... For a quick second I thought it was Just me...
Some of us have been saying this since the beginning...
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