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Just the other day, Unpresident Trump insisted that he simply does not watch mainstream media anymore, no, not ever. He doesn’t watch anything which is negative. Naturally, that statement is belied by his frequent morphs into Mr. Tweet, ranting about this, that, and the other negative something as seen or read on mainstream media. He’s running away to a ‘campaign rally’ in order to avoid the White House Correspondent’s Dinner, but does anyone think the Tiny Tyrant won’t be obsessing over every remark anyway?
It would seem that the Tiny Tyrant’s staff was unaware of his insistence that he does not watch, no, not ever, not anymore, as they have said that it’s extremely difficult to curb his excessive reliance on television. They also said he ‘hate watches’ in the evening, going over all the negative stuff, which outside of Fox, is pretty much everything everywhere.
“When I see it’s such false reporting and such bad reporting and false reporting that I’ve developed an ability that I never thought I had,” Trump insisted. “I don’t watch things that are unpleasant. I just don’t watch them.”
“I don’t watch CNN anymore. I don’t watch MSNBC anymore. I don’t watch [negative] things, and I never thought I had that ability. I always thought I’d watch.”
Contrary to this statement:
Trump turns on cable news immediately upon arising each morning and spends the day checking in via a television in the White House dining room. However, once the president goes upstairs at the end of the day, aides lose their ability to monitor and moderate the president’s intake.
“Once he goes upstairs, there’s no managing him,” one adviser told the Post.
“Sometimes, at night, he hate-watches cable shows critical of him, while chatting on the phone with friends, said someone familiar with the president’s routine — a quirk a senior official jokingly called ‘multi-teching.’” the Post said.
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Foreign leaders are urging their diplomats to go on U.S. television when they visit the country so as to catch Trump’s attention. Trump has insisted that he wouldn’t dream of firing Press Secretary Sean Spicer — even after his gaffe comparing Hitler favorably to Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
“I’m not firing Sean Spicer,” said Trump. “That guy gets great ratings. Everyone tunes in.”
There we are again – “great ratings”. That’s all this unstable, stupid asshole cares about. He thinks of himself and everyone around him as being on a television reality show. And if the world is going to hell in a handbasket, eh, who cares? Ratings! Things going bad again? Oh, have Spicer say something stupid about Hitler.
The White House Correspondents should invite Alec Baldwin and Melissa McCarthy to the Dinner.
Hahahahahaha, oh, that would be fun.
Yeah, the problem here is, the staff lives in reality and Trump does not. Whatever he says he believes to be true, and whatever he want to true he just says, and expects everyone else to go along with him. Even if he says “it’s night time” in the middle of the day. Ten minutes later he might declare it to be daytime, and if you point out he just said it was night, he’ll simply say he never said any such thing, and that will be “true” too.
I almost feel bad for the staff but the whole reason they are there is because they love power and money too much to say no to the job. So it’s on their own heads. I hope they enjoy the cognitive dissonance.
Kestrel, yeah, it’s all part and parcel of being a narcissistic personality. I haven’t had as intimate experience as you’ve had, but I’ve been acquainted with a couple over the years, and they just don’t care, flat out. They’ll say this, then 5 minutes later, it’s something else. If you call them on it, you just about get drowned in bullshit.
He’s quintessential American. The other half of that equation? People are tuning in, some of them for entertainment.
Shiv:
Oh, I know. There’s a lot of guilt to go around. I wouldn’t watch, even if I had television, and I don’t watch videos, either. That said, I still read about that stuff, because I want to know what’s going on. I think too many people watch because for them, it is a reality show, not actual reality.
““I don’t watch things that are unpleasant.”
This would put him firmly in step with his base. If it’s uncomfortable, pretend it doesn’t exist. Of course, I don’t think he can actually do that. He must seethe.