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marmar

(77,077 posts)
Wed Jan 2, 2019, 11:16 AM Jan 2019

How much more pathetic can this clown show get?



Donald Trump Gets Busted Boasting About Positive News Coverage Written By Own Aides
Trump proudly declared a Washington Examiner list to be “True!” – but conveniently forgot to mention it was written by the White House.


(HuffPost) President Donald Trump proudly boasted on Twitter on Tuesday that some positive coverage from the Washington Examiner, a conservative news website, was “True!”

Trump promoted the site’s “MAGA list” of 205 “historic results” that could help him win re-election in 2020, published Monday.

However, the content of the list that Trump bragged about was actually pieced together by his own White House aides. As evidenced in the third paragraph:



.....(snip).....

Twitter users noticed, and called Trump out over his claim:

Great moments in media: Trump’s team gives the Washington Examiner an “exclusive” list of 205 supposed “historic” accomplishments he will campaign on; the Examiner just publishes it in full; Trump tweets about it as if it came from the Examiner. pic.twitter.com/4xa1t9Gt6l
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 1, 2019

The Washington Examiner (laughable enough) was given a list to print, by you. That’s not reporting, that’s propaganda.
— cj (@markergirl1) January 2, 2019


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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-washington-examiner-boast-tweet_us_5c2c71bae4b05c88b703eca0




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How much more pathetic can this clown show get? (Original Post) marmar Jan 2019 OP
Here's an idea Cheeto: call a press conference FakeNoose Jan 2019 #1
Oh, I've stopped asking that question! MissB Jan 2019 #2

FakeNoose

(32,634 posts)
1. Here's an idea Cheeto: call a press conference
Wed Jan 2, 2019, 11:21 AM
Jan 2019

See if the White House correspondents are willing to kiss your butt.
I'm betting they're not.



MissB

(15,806 posts)
2. Oh, I've stopped asking that question!
Wed Jan 2, 2019, 11:21 AM
Jan 2019

Because there is always a lower mark they’ll hit today, or tomorrow.

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