01-19-2017, 03:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-19-2017, 03:56 PM by Eric the Green.)
(01-19-2017, 12:22 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(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In the modern age of Twitter, the notion of a press pool is obsolete.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...
He may end up as a say a lot, do nothing PotUS.
That would be my fond hope, for the next four years at least, if he makes it that far. We've had a whole lot of those in recent years. I expect the main difference, in that case, would be how much smoke and fire his "saying" belches forth.
I mean, beyond Reagan doing a whole lot of destruction, what has any US president done (or been able to do) since Nixon? Nothing much, beyond starting or continuing wars we didn't need.