Let's make fun of Trump, bash him, etc. while we can!

[Eric the Green]

(01-19-2017, 06:09 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(01-19-2017, 03:45 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: I sure hope the media do their job as they promise to do here:

http://www.cjr.org/covering_trump/trump_..._corps.php

I cannot be too naive however. I wonder how much influence Trump will have on the media moguls who employ a lot of the press corps?

Not a bad outline of the press's duties, privileges and responsibilities.  What sort of response am I expecting?

The President of the United States, as part of his Executive Powers, has the right to ridicule, attack and harass anyone who disagrees with him.

In the modern age of Twitter, the notion of a press pool is obsolete.  The office once called 'Press Secretary' shall be referred to as 'Twitter Secretary'.

The building that currently holds the Press Pool once held a swimming pool.  The pool room is to be returned to its original context.

I could go on, I don't know that he will try to run the country as he ran his campaign, but I'm trying to wait until after Trump has started to actually do stuff...

I'm not trying to wait, of course. There is zero chance that he will not run the country as he ran his campaign. So far, it has been far worse, in fact; given his appointments which are anything but "populist." Most of the press and pundits I have heard agree. And to say he hasn't "started to actually do stuff" is incredibly blind, given his appointments, which are the worst made by any elected leader ever.

Trump going swimming? That would create quite a splash! I don't disagree with your other statements. Unless Trump can threaten, harass and outright restrict the press, the way LBJ pressured CBS over the Smothers Brothers show, then both the press and today's social media outlets who oppose Trump will find ways to report what's going on. The problem is also, of course, the people, and how easily they have been deceived. Half the country just doesn't get what's going on at all, and are willfully ignorant.