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President Trump's paper-stack politicking makes another appearance
Shortly after he took office, President Trump promoted a seemingly unexpected book.
“A great book for your reading enjoyment,” he tweeted in April 2017: “ ‘REASONS TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS’ by Michael J. Knowles.”
Trump promoting a book about voting for Democrats? Well, you see, the gag was that the book was full of blank pages. Ergo, there are no reasons to vote for Democrats! Pick a copy up at your local Spencer Gifts today.
Even then, though, this was a risky thing to embrace. If you’re going to highlight a joke about how blank pages can be used as a visual presentation of rhetorical barrenness, you might want to be cautious about your own use of blank pages to make political points.
“A great book for your reading enjoyment,” he tweeted in April 2017: “ ‘REASONS TO VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS’ by Michael J. Knowles.”
Trump promoting a book about voting for Democrats? Well, you see, the gag was that the book was full of blank pages. Ergo, there are no reasons to vote for Democrats! Pick a copy up at your local Spencer Gifts today.
Even then, though, this was a risky thing to embrace. If you’re going to highlight a joke about how blank pages can be used as a visual presentation of rhetorical barrenness, you might want to be cautious about your own use of blank pages to make political points.
The most recent example came this week. With the 2020 presidential election looming, Trump has in recent days made the baffling decision to spend as much energy challenging CBS News’s Lesley Stahl as he has his Democratic opponent. Stahl apparently grilled the president in an interview taped Tuesday, reportedly prompting Trump to truncate the discussion earlier than planned. He then jumped on Twitter to disparage Stahl in at times opaque ways.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/10/21/president-trumps-paper-stack-politicking-makes-another-appearance/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social
