Jennifer Senior @ NYT is definitely not feeling the love from Trump's daily "F**K YOU" pressers.

[Miles Archer]

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/20/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-trump-news-conference.html



Call Trump’s News Conferences What They Are: Propaganda
Then contrast them with the leadership shown by Andrew Cuomo, Justin Trudeau and Angela Merkel.

By Jennifer Senior
Opinion columnist

In a time of global emergency, we need calm, directness and, above all, hard facts. Only the opposite is on offer from the Trump White House. It is therefore time to call the president’s news conferences for what they are: propaganda.

We may as well be watching newsreels approved by the Soviet Politburo. We’re witnessing the falsification of history in real time. When Donald Trump, under the guise of social distancing, told the White House press corps on Thursday that he ought to get rid of 75 to 80 percent of them — reserving the privilege only for those he liked — it may have been chilling, but it wasn’t surprising. He wants to thin out their ranks until there’s only Pravda in the room.

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“What do you say to Americans who are scared?” Alexander pressed.

“I say that you’re a terrible reporter,” Trump answered.

Only a liar — and a weak man with delusions of competence — would be so unnerved by the facts.

[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R...nt

[2naSalit]

2. K&R

[crickets]

3. More like this, please. K&R

[Andy823]

4. So earlier trump made reporters

leave the room because they were "to close" to each other, yet the picture above shows the trump gang like a foot apart? How stupid can things get?

[PaulRevere08]

5. The minute he stops reading from the prepared text he sounds like an idiot.

[maryallen]

8. Stop televising the pressers that Trump attends.

[TNNurse]

6. Found this quote from John Burroughs (1837-1921) appropriate

"A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."

[KY_EnviroGuy]

15. K&R Thank you, that's a good one.

And a toast to TN nurses (still have kinfolk & classmates there)......

KY

[TNNurse]

17. I need to change my screen name to Retired TNNurse.

I am glad to not be out there in it. Multiple hours in isolation is exhausting, do not have the stamina.

[ffr]

7. IMPotus tRump and his band of merry accomplices will be the model for all generations to look at

Of how incompetence is not an asset characteristic in our leaders. Answer the damn question and reassure the American people, you son of a bitch, IMPotus!!!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. Stop the 'pressers'. If the networks won't do it, TURN THEM OFF.

[PatrickforO]

10. I think we call this hoisted on his own petard.

And I'm talking about Donald J. Trump, HIM, which is 'horrible inept monster.'

[Amaryllis]

11. REad the whole article. Outstanding.

[Woodwizard]

12. The Orange Menace

talked today like a vaccine was practically ready. What an idiot.

[dchill]

13. Absolutely. K&R.

[onetexan]

14. K&R The rest of the MSM also needs to call the Idiot's daily pressers Propaganda.

Better yet, NOT show up at all.

[Fla Dem]

16. Nailed it! The legitimate media needs to stop televising these propaganda sessions/

I haven't watched the last 2 days. Gagged every time one of his sycophants, told him what a wonderful job he was doing.

[budkin]

18. K & R