Trump: I use social media to 'fight back' against media

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY MAX GREENWOOD - 12/30/17 05:44 PM EST

President Trump on Saturday cast his use of Twitter as a necessity to fight back against "dishonest and unfair" news coverage.

Link to tweet

Trump has routinely clashed with the media since the early days of his presidential campaign, and has often reignited feuds with news outlets that cover his administration critically.

In particular, he's directed his ire at newspapers such as The Washington Post and The New York Times. He's also gone after networks, including CNN which he has derided as dishonest and partisan.

Trump has often attributed his Twitter use to a desire to push back against reporting he deems unfair or "fake news," and has said that the social media site allows him to communicate directly with supporters.

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/366891-trump-i-use-social-media-to-fight-back-against-media

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Trump's "Fair" is Whining Fake News 2.0

Any time someone throws the "fair" label at you, watch out.

I get mass mailing offers to buy my home. We close in a week! Cash, no repair bills! Our prices are fair!

I can guess. What's fair to them is toxic for me.

He really must eat his "fair" label. He's being referee, judge, jury, con man all in the same word.

[Wwcd]

2. Maybe dotard should boycot all media.

Just stop talking at his phone.

[Ligyron]

3. I always find it interesting that he hates CNN so much.

Rarely mentions MSNBC by name - he just slams Morning Joe.

[Archae]

4. Has too many syllables.

His brain locks up past 3.

[kimbutgar]

7. He probably still gets royalties from Nbc for the apprentice and doesnt want to piss them off.

I suspect that is why he rarely attacks them because of the show on the network. It was his main source of income according to Lawrence O’Donnell during the time the show aired. You can bet if he gets taken down he’ll try to get another show with them.

[Ligyron]

9. Oh, good point!

[pecosbob]

5. In other words

you lie 200-300 times per day.

[Fred Sanders]

6. Subscribe to your local liberal newspapers and national real news websites. Then vote. Unbeatable.

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

8. Very dishonest/unfair,fake,phony & non existent fallowed by pure fiction.

What a string of words coming from the source. It's all there when you take it out of the Trump context.
It's always somebody else, something else ,someplace else ,but that's not Trump,he's not a ,dishonest,unfair, fake phony non-existent president, or is he . He is isn't he. some say Trump is not all there, maybe nobody is. Perhaps the key word is non-existent.

[truthisfreedom]

10. translation: "I use social media to spread disinformation, create chaos, and sow discontent

among the last remaining core followers of my horrifying existence."

[Gidney N Cloyd]

11. "Catapulting the propaganda," so to speak?

Huh. I feel like I've dealt with this before.

[Wolf Frankula]

12. That 'dishonest and unfair media' made tRump

If it were not for the free publicity he's gotten for thirty years, he'd be just another bankrupt real estate shyster with a negative net worth.

Wolf

[trusty elf]

13. Tweeties, breakfast of chumpians