On Thursday, Trump told reporters: “The press has become so dishonest that if we don’t talk about it we are doing a tremendous disservice to American people.
“The media is trying to attack our administration because they know we are following through on pledges that we made, and they’re not happy about it, for whatever reason,” he added. “I turn on the news and I see stories of chaos. And yet it is the exact opposite. The administration is running like a fine-tuned machine.”
He then went on to present a quite impressive list of subjects already being addressed in the few short weeks after his inauguration. The list includes job development, infrastructure projects, trade imbalances, rebuilding industry, managing immigration, border control, crime reduction and beginning construction of the Keystone pipeline and Dakota Access pipelines.
None of the items, though, spurred interest from reporters in attendance, who preferred instead to focus on rumored Russian collusion, the resignation of National Security Advisor Mike Flynn and the withdrawal of Andrew Puzder from nomination as Labor Secretary.
Despite the likely unrepairable rift between himself and the consistently hostile MSM, the new POTUS certainly knows who put him in office. Which is why two days after his standoff with the press in D.C., he happily flew off and as reported by Kaileen Gaul @dailymail.co.uk: “Donald Trump once again doubled down on the media, telling a cheering crowd in Florida: ‘I want to speak to you without the filter of the fake news.”
While the rally was held in Melbourne where a crowd of 9,000 attended, from reader’s comments following the article, it was obvious that many of them certainly don’t hold the MSM in high regard either, including the Daily Mail in which this column appeared.
Jenkyl, a reader in Newcastle, wrote: “True to form, The media of all types did what they could to make less of a strong connection President Trump has with his supporters. Even the best media were snarky and uncomplimentary as they can, making bad news out of good. Just read the Mail story to see it in action.”
Trump himself critiqued the press, saying: “They have their own agenda and their agenda is not your agenda. In fact, Thomas Jefferson said, “nothing can be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle,” that was June 14, my birthday, 1807.”
The Daily Mail reporter then inserted a contradiction: “As Politifact points out, Jefferson wasn't typically adversarial towards the press. He also wrote in 1787: 'The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right.”
However, a careful reading of Jefferson’s words reveals that he does not address or endorse the press’s honesty, truthfulness or integrity. He simply presents his belief in their freedom to state their case as they see fit. It’s then up to readers to accept those premises or not.
In keeping with the theme that the MSM interprets subject matter in a way that supports, promotes and sustains their premises and ideological platforms, a friend sent the following graphic. A chart that provides comparative statistics regarding results in key categories over Obama’s two terms in office.
So, what we have here is a compilation of evidence illustrating horrendous fiscal results consistently overlooked and purposefully avoided by the MSM. And whereas none of the socially popular benefits and handouts can be funded by the nation’s weak financial performance, the new POTUS must find ways to cover the costs.
Yet, the MSM doesn’t want to hear that. All of which is the underlying cause of their continual hostility toward one of the very few individuals capable of putting the nation back on its fiscal feet again.
But, in the end, it really doesn’t matter what the MSM wants or not. Because its the voters across Middle-America that put the POTUS in office to begin with. And just like those in Melbourne yesterday, they’re not only very pleased with what they’ve seen to date, their new president surely knows that too.
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
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