Trump has succeeded — and will likely continue to succeed — not in spite of the media campaign against him, but, at least in part, because of it. Voters have grown wise to the media agenda, and recognize stories crafted to fit a certain mold rather than to follow the facts. They know what a smear looks like, and they don’t like it.
Understood in this light, one can see why negative Trump coverage may boomerang, including recent “bombshells” from The Atlantic magazine and Bob Woodward. Citing unnamed sources, The Atlantic claimed that Trump ridiculed American soldiers killed in war. The story, however, was soon undermined by reality. None of its sources came forward. Officials who did come forward — including former National Security Adviser John Bolton, a noted Trump critic — contradicted the account. Voters were left to wonder: Is The Atlantic more interested in harming Trump, particularly with his military supporters, than it is in the truth?
As for Woodward, who taped hours of interviews with Trump for the book “Rage,” almost any statement can be grounds for scandal. Speaking to Woodward on March 19, the president said of the novel coronavirus: “I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.” On “60 Minutes,” Woodward, clearly eager to use the vocabulary of Watergate, suggested Trump was “going down the path of deceit and cover-up.” But attentive observers at the time intuited the president’s strategy — the fact that he wanted to take decisive action against the virus while instilling calm in the nation. Where Woodward sees a tragic cover-up, others will find a common-sense approach to an unfolding crisis, and leadership in the context of often conflicting scientific information.
…voters know, in other words, what it feels like to be the underdog, to go up against the establishment. They relate to their president.
Sticks and stones may break his bones but leftist lying words will never hurt him. In fact it may do the opposite and cause the vast majority of the American people to be even more pissed off about all the lies about Trump. Keep it up democraps, you’re digging your own grave and the more lies you tell about Trump you’re sinking deeper and deeper into the abyss from which there is no return.
The difference between Pravda and the MSDM is that the Russians knew they were reading Soviet Propaganda. Half of America knows that the Propaganda Networks are hiding Dementia Joe’s dementia, and the other half hate President Trump so much that nothing matters except defeating him before he keeps more of his promises to drain their swamp. This makes them almost irrelevant. They’ve lost the plot. They are not journalists, they are Dementiacrat Propagandists.
Simply put, President Trump knows how to use mass media better than the media knows how to use mass media.
Marco – Welcome to the New Con-munism of the Left where deceit, disinformation and
streamingsteaming preposterous propaganda is the new “truth” along with the belief is that none of us on our own is as dumb as all of us combined!Oddly enough itz the same as the old Communism!
THAT’S why he’s pressing forward. LET the riotous classes push MORE Trump voters to the polls! 😀
An adversarial press makes a political party stronger. Survival of the fittest and all that. The democrats are weak and inbred thanks largely to a propaganda press.
Worse than Watergate!
There, someone said it, now as for kool-aid drinker Bobby Woodward
F*** Off you troll!
They’re preaching to their own crowd because they think their own crowd is the majority of Americans and American voters.
They may turn out wrong about that, we’ll know in a matter of weeks.
Fake media has strengthened my resolve to fight for this President more than ever! He is a great man and brave in the face of an evil bunch of hypocrites.
The “tell a lie until it sounds true” Scheme is working on fewer and fewer citizens .
Psssst – don’t tell them.