Saturday, January 28, 2017

Trump continues to outwit the press: ‘A carefully maintained strategy’

Via Billy

President Trump has a unique skill set when it comes to wrangling the press and emerging from the effort unscathed (Associated Press)

President Trump has a unique skill set when it comes to getting his message to the American people, wrangling the press and emerging from the effort unscathed. His dealings with journalists are precise and canny, indeed.

“Why are the relations between Donald Trump and the press so bad? There are two reasons. One is that Trump is a Republican, and the press consists overwhelmingly of Democrats. But the other reason is that Trump likes it this way, because when the press is constantly attacking him over trivialities, it strengthens his position and weakens the press,” writes Instapundit columnist Glenn Reynolds in USA Today. “Trump’s ‘outrageous’ statements and tweets aren’t the product of impulsiveness, but part of a carefully maintained strategy that the press is too impulsive to resist.”

The president, Mr. Reynolds says, “has more media experience than probably 99 percent of the people covering him.”

2 comments:

  1. This is exactly what I said to my wife a while ago when she asked me why he says so many outrageous things. She was wondering if he was crazy or something. It took me a while to figure him out, but I came to the conclusion that yes, he's crazy. Crazy like a fox. I was still dubious of what he would do once he got elected, though. Now I am pretty much totally in love with our new POTUS. People are now saying that he has done more in a week than has been done in the last eight years. I would say that he has accomplished more in his week in office than has been done in the last twenty..........

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    1. I would say that he has accomplished more in his week in office than has been done in the last twenty..........

      Just amazing.

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