TRUMP: MY SWEDEN COMMENT BASED ON FOX REPORT CNN NEWSROOM
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canetoad
(17,184 posts)Scrotus gets his information from Fox. OMG.
VMA131Marine
(4,149 posts)...to confirm or deny these stories? Who am I kidding? Of course he doesn't!.
mobeau69
(11,156 posts)We have the President of The United States making a speech that includes something he saw on Faux News and thinks it happened the night before. No one in The White House checks it out first? Reckless as all hell.
This idiot can start WWIII.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)He called Sergeant McGillicuddy down in the White House Situation Room..."so tell me McGillicuddy, did the terrorists bomb Sweden?" McGillicuddy, knowing Trump will beileve anything, tells him, "why yes Mr. President, the terrorists did bomb Sweden."
Two hours later, the staff of the Situation Room are gathered around their teevees when McGillicuddy starts dancing in the aisles..."see? I TOLD ya! None of you people thought I was serious when I said Trump was this fucking stupid...you assholes all owe me a case of beer. Each."
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)riversedge
(70,299 posts)I am going to post the tweet also.
red dog 1
(27,849 posts)pnwmom
(108,994 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)"Last night."
"About Sweden."
"Try to keep up, FAKE NEWS!"
llmart
(15,552 posts)Heck, DU'ers have been calling it FAUX News for years!!! We coined the term! Dolt45 is too freakin' stupid like his supporters to know it's fake news.
Gotta love how CNN is ripping him a new one. LOL
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Happyhippychick
(8,379 posts)marybourg
(12,634 posts)Faux News ---->Trump ----> Faux News
bucolic_frolic
(43,282 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,364 posts)... it has the shortest skirts.
So what's for Trump not to like?
Vogon_Glory
(9,128 posts)But Thump doesn't like them.
riversedge
(70,299 posts)I remember some problems in Sweden--based on articles I read about refugees. that was a while ago (some swedes just did not want the refugees).
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riversedge
(70,299 posts)Tony Posnanski @tonyposnanski 56m56 minutes ago
@realDonaldTrump You said "last night in Sweden". Don't retract. You are fake news for the unintelligent.
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Jordan Uhl @JordanUhl 54m54 minutes ago
.@tonyposnanski no, when he lies it's ok but when media tells the truth it's fake news! Duh!
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Tony Posnanski @tonyposnanski 54m54 minutes ago
@JordanUhl I should have known 😔
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Tony Posnanski @tonyposnanski 52m52 minutes ago
@JordanUhl I was busy watching the 3.2 trillion people in Melbourne Florida according to Trump's eyeballs.
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Mike P Williams @Mike_P_Williams 32m32 minutes ago
@tonyposnanski @JordanUhl Mate, no alternative facts, please. I heard it was nearer 3.6.
riversedge
(70,299 posts)Dems Against Trump and Rob Reiner liked
David Corn @DavidCornDC 47m47 minutes ago
David Corn Retweeted Donald J. Trump
In other words, you couldn't tell the difference between a Fox News segment and real-time events. Hope you don't watch "Independence Day."
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Tiffany Larsen @TiffanyLLarsen 47m47 minutes ago
@DavidCornDC that was clearly not written by him
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Tiffany Larsen @TiffanyLLarsen 47m47 minutes ago
@DavidCornDC it's a complete sentence!
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Tiffany Larsen @TiffanyLLarsen 46m46 minutes ago
@DavidCornDC ...with large-ish words.
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MTC @mgclbbmc 35m35 minutes ago
@TiffanyLLarsen @DavidCornDC bigly
Bengus81
(6,932 posts)Oppsss....had Independence Day running on HBO.
central scrutinizer
(11,661 posts)Or we could be nuking Mars right now
AC_Mem
(1,979 posts)What is our country becoming? It just breaks my heart.
Annette
mobeau69
(11,156 posts)There is no civic consensus in this country like there was at the time of Watergate about acceptable presidential conduct," Bernstein said on Reliable Sources."
Trump is out there on his own, leading a demagogic attack on the institutions of free democracy," he said. We are into terrible authoritarian tendencies."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/19/watergate-reporter-carl-bernstein-trumps-attacks-on-the-press-are-more-dangerous-than-nixons/?utm_term=.ebb419399f4c
poli3
(174 posts)for tearing down the fairness doctrine leading to fake news/limbaugh/fox.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,020 posts)Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)That's the thing about being President of the United States of America. Politicians may need to lie for national security and diplomatic reasons. But implicit in that is that they know the true facts. The President has an organization this is supposed to check to make sure that the President has the correct information.
Passing on some bullshit from Fox News or Breitbart does not meet the standard.
NCcoast
(480 posts)I can't help but notice that our friends in the 'liberal media' have begun the inevitable setup of Pence. They're making sure we know, Pence was out of the loop, Pence was uninformed about this and that nefarious thing, Pence is the diplomatic one...
We all know what's coming.
AC_Mem
(1,979 posts)I think P knows all of it and perhaps more. He is privy to both the 45-Bannon Bantor as well as the congressional/senate/koch/etc.. plans. There were times during the campaign that he almost walked away, according to reports. He walked into this with eyes open.
NCcoast
(480 posts)He is there to be the cleaner. No matter what he knew or when he knew it, they'll bury it. He'll come out of this appearing to be as innocent as the day he was born. Trump should have never been sworn in. Obama called in McConnell to make an arrangement and McConnell said he would cry 'partisan politics' if Obama tried to delay the inauguration to investigate the situation. That way the GOP got all of its seats and the White House, which they knew would go to Pence in the likelihood that Trump washed out. They all hate Trump. There isn't anyone he hasn't pissed off or pissed on.
So it's goodbye Donald and Pence, culture warrior supreme, takes over to lead the agenda of dismantling the social safety net and all regulation.
If there's a silver lining, the real silent majority has finally woken up. They're watching the GOP defend the indefensible. An next they're going to watch the orgy of right wing defunding, deregulating and dismantling. This time they'll get it. We'll go energized and organised into the 2020 election cycle and it will be a blood bath for the GOP. And it won't stop there. And then the pendulum is going to swing back hard.
I'm 57 and I'm talking about the long game.
AC_Mem
(1,979 posts)and I'm HOPING you are right about the pendulum swinging back. We can learn a lesson here - well several lessons, but the big one is to start small and local and then build big. We are great at putting greatness in the highest position in government, but where we lost was by not focusing at the local level. We need someone (President Obama are you out there??) to put together a strategy, find and grow talent, going from the very basics of local office to mayors, governors, etc.
its the only way we will get out from under red-rule and gerrymandering. We not only won by nearly 3 million votes, there are approx 62+ million to add to that count (65,844,954 (48.2%). It is time to not only wake everyone up, but to actually get going and organize. The people are standing by - primed and ready to go. The protests show that they WANT to unite and be of one voice and WHAT they are protesting shows where THE PEOPLE'S values lie. There ought to be organizers at every single protest getting names and organizing local meetings, write in campaigns, setting up meetings, finding community organizers, and offering resources.
Now is the time. This is an outstanding opportunity for Democratic leaders to harness this energy and change the course of history.
Annette
NCcoast
(480 posts)And it gets better. The millennials get a bad rap. They have an innate ability to organize themselves which has virtually never existed before. If they can get focused they can do unimaginable things. Did you see how they organized themselves during the occupy movement? It was like watching clockworks.
They're into localism, DYI, free swap meets, community gardens... grassroots politics is right in their wheelhouse.
And it's already happening. Bernie is the man in this movement and if you know his history Bernie knows how to win with long odds. What he pulled off in the primaries was pretty amazing. And these millennials, these guys operate so quickly when it comes to organizing. They're already all over it. Justice Democrats is a good example.
Everyone I'm talking to among my more politically astute friends tells me they went to this rally, and there were way more people there than they expected, same for town hall meetings, big rowdy crowds, demands that skittish senators hold town halls. The natives are restless. We've had about enough of this.
The Women's March was the biggest protest in history. The ground is moving. It took so long I'm shocked it's even happening. My hairs been on fire since 2001. I didn't think anyone was ever going to wake up again. But I think it's finally here.
The worst thing about Trump is the best thing about Trump. He's a completely over the top cartoon villain. But he's so disorganized, ignorant of how things work, he's feckless, sound and fury. And he's already toast. He's entered a death spiral. It's only going to get worse.
So we've got that as a recruiting tool. You can't beat it. A villain right out of central casting to scare the electorate into local politics and the voting booths.
I'm rambling, but you get the idea. It's happening as we speak.
rpannier
(24,338 posts)Gothmog
(145,554 posts)mobeau69
(11,156 posts)All the orange fuhrer knows is what he sees on the tube.
Little Tich
(6,171 posts)Every time Trump opens his mouth, it's facepalm time.
rpannier
(24,338 posts)I'm beginning to worry if something real and lethal happens
If faux isn't reporting on it at the time nothing would be done
Botany
(70,581 posts)17% of the time when Fox says something is it 100% true.
Now did Fox's story come from Alex Jones?
http://www.infowars.com/cities-in-sweden-told-to-prepare-for-war/
RussBLib
(9,035 posts)They could plant all sorts of total BS.
Trump knows his followers watch, and fervently believe, FOX, so he is safe mentioning the BS he sees on FOX.
And the rest of the media is the enemy of the people? Sounds like a 3rd world dictator.
Cha
(297,655 posts)Historic NY
(37,453 posts)agalisgv
(149 posts)And then lie some more and people blindly believe him. Is something in the water which I am not drinking?
TomVilmer
(1,832 posts)From Tucker Carlsons show on Friday night, which included a clip claiming to document alleged violence committed by refugees in Sweden. See also this longer Google translated link: Here is the falsehood in the Fox feature on Sweden:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/4azPo/efter-trumps-pik-har-ar-osanningarna-i-fox-inslaget-om-sverige&prev=_t
The small country of Sweden has a lot of free space, and has chosen to open up for millions of new citizens from all the world, and is now booming as the largest economy of the Nordic countries.
nikibatts
(2,198 posts)He has a lot of time to watch the news and SNL. Who really is running the country?
Please keep you eyes on what the filthy Congress is sending over for him to sign,
Greensix1
(67 posts)If Trump believes anything he sees on Fox he's dumber than he looks.
Vinca
(50,303 posts)lark
(23,155 posts)and it's being spread by the man by popularized that phrase about real news. Glad Sweden is calling out this lunacy!