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Trump’s Anti-Press Secretary Won’t Deny His Intention to Seek an Unconstitutional Third Term

Posted by on March 31, 2025 at 2:27 pm. 1 Comments :

As Donald Trump barrels headlong into one fiasco after another, his media flacks struggle to spin his catastrophes into something that avoids the malodorous stench of corruption, criminality, and failure. It’s a constant uphill battle with reality that pushes his press team to emulate the fantastical sycophancy of the totalitarian regimes that Trump idolizes.

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Donald Trump and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

The Trumpy propagandists are presently trying to find ways to turn his seething hostilities toward American allies (Ukraine, Canada, Europe, etc.), and the appalling breaches of his national security staffers (SignalGate), into a consumable mush that he can feed to his gullible cult followers. And to put it generously, it aint working.

SEE THIS: SIGNALGATE: How Fox News Fouled Up the War Planning Chat Scandal Was More Cover-Up than Coverage

One of the key methods that the Trump team uses to suppress criticism and dissent is the fine art of deflection. They will deliberately introduce a new subject to divert attention away from a matter that is more harmful. The risk of this tactic is that the new subject might actually be even worse than what they were hoping to avoid.

Case in point, Trump has been trying to float his authoritarian aspirations to tyranny by proposing that he extend his occupation of the White House into a constitutionally prohibited third term. The 22nd Amendment states plainly that “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice.” But mere laws can’t dampen Trump’s lust for power. When asked about this by Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker, Trump replied that “I’m not joking…There are methods which you could do it.”

Of course there are. Vladimir Putin did it. Xi Jinping did it. Viktor Orbán did it. And if Trump’s idols can do it, so can he. Right? And Trump’s press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, is more than happy to patronize his despotic dreams. When the matter came up on Fox News, Leavitt declined to refute the madness expressed by her boss, saying that…

“It’s funny to me that journalists ask the president this question. He gives an honest and candid answer and then they spiral about his answer. He was asked this, and you heard him, and he’s right. People love the job this president is doing. And as he said, we are focused on this term. We have four more years to go.”

Notice that Leavitt never actually denies that Trump is harboring unhinged hopes of declaring himself president-for-life. Instead, she just lies about his popularity, as if that would justify undermining democracy and taking over the country as its new dictator. For the record, Trump sits at the bottom of the popularity polls for presidents at this point in their terms.

CONGRATULATIONS MAGA!Trump is only the 2nd president since 1937 to have net negative approval two months into a term. The other one was also Trump.His policies are also in negative territory. And this is from 5 different polls, including Fox News.

— News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social) 2025-03-20T18:36:27.121Z

Leavitt is giving the propaganda operations in Russia and North Korea a run for their money. She is incapable of opening her mouth without lies gushing out like a busted fire hydrant. Which is a skill that has surely endeared her to Trump. But the ease with which these people advocate for monarchal rule should be a wake up call for all Americans. Because, as Trump himself says, he isn’t joking.

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Trump is on a Crusade to Intimidate and Impeach Judges Who Dare to Rule Against Dear Leader

Posted by on March 16, 2025 at 12:52 pm. NO Comments :

The risk of America’s constitutional democracy falling into totalitarian tyranny has never been more imminent than during the reign of wannabe dictator Donald Trump as he embarks on his second occupation of the White House. And he hasn’t been the least been hesitant to express and even brag about his nefarious intentions.

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America’s founders deliberately divided the powers of the government into three branches – the executive, the legislative, and the judicial – in order to insure than no one person or party could acquire enough power to rule like the monarchs that they fought a revolution to break away from. Ignoring that objective, Trump promised Sean Hannity of Fox News that he would be a “dictator on day one,” and he reinforced that pledge during his inauguration address.

SEE THIS: Trump’s Inauguration Day Rants Affirm that He is a Wannabe Dictator and a Pathological Liar

Ever since, Trump has been feverishly endeavoring to undermine the founders’ foresight and impose his own aspirations to unchecked autocracy. To a frightening degree, he has succeeded in cowing the Republicans in Congress to serve as his loyal legislative servants. So now he only needs to gain control over the judiciary to complete his tyrannical trifecta. And he’s hard at work to at that.

On Sunday morning, Trump’s anti-press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, visited Fox News again (she is there more often than she is at White House Press Room). She told Fox’s Senior Trump-Fluffer, Maria Bartiromo, about how horribly persecuted her crybaby boss is (video below)…

“He has been facing more resistance than anyone who has run for office in American history. And the mainstream media is part of that, but also, as you mentioned, we have judges in our judicial branch who are acting as activists, not real arbiters of the law. And there has been 15 injunctions in one month of president Trump’s agenda. The Biden White House only faced 13 injunctions in the entirety of his presidency. So clearly there are left wing activists who sit behind a bench who don’t like this president and his policies.”

It is written in the bylaws of the Cult of Trump that every critical reference to him be described as the “most,” or the “worst,” of anything since time began. However, Leavitt actually came close to grasping the reality of Trump’s tribulations with the courts. The reason that Trump has had so many more injunctions than Biden isn’t because of “activist” judges or left wing opposition to his political views or to him personally. It’s because he has been more grossly disrespectful of the law. Many of the rulings against him came from judges appointed by Republicans. And a growing number of conservative legal scholars have spoken out against his fitness for the presidency.

Leavitt went on to gaslight the Fox News audience with assertions of Trump’s fictional fidelity to the law…

“The fact is, everything president Trump is doing is within his executive authority to do it. He is acting within the bounds of the law. All of his actions are constitutional. And our White House, and our entire administration are prepared to fight back against this resistance. Don’t bet against president Trump. I think his epic return to the Oval Office proves that he is going to win against this weaponization of our justice system.”

If everything that Trump is doing is in accordance with his executive authority and the law, the courts would not be ruling against him with such frequency and near unanimity. You don’t get 15 injunctions against you from diverse courtrooms by being faithfully law abiding.

For the record, Trump is the one who is shamelessly engaging in the weaponization of the Justice Department. He has placed fanatical loyalists like Pam Bondi and Kash Patel in charge of the DoJ and the FBI. He has fired dozens of career prosecutors, as well as inspectors general who monitor ethical violations. And he has explicitly declared that he intends to get revenge on those in the legal system – and the media – who he believes wronged him.

MORE HERE: Trump’s Free Press? His FBI Flunky Kash Patel Threatens to ‘Come After the People in the Media’

What’s more, Trump has recruited his MAGA allies to aid and abet his vengeance, including Elon Musk, his co-president and oligarch bro. Musk has been furiously pushing to impeach judges that he says are “evil” and “corrupt.” He tweeted that “We are witnessing an attempted coup of American democracy by radical left activists posing as judges!” And that “The only way to restore rule of the people in America is to impeach judges.”

UPDATE: Trump is now brazenly defying judicial rulings by continuing to deport migrants without due process, despite a court ruling ordering him to stop. His border “czar,” Tom Homan, told Fox News that “We’re not stopping. I don’t care what the judges think. I don’t care what the left thinks. We’re coming.” This is open defiance of the rule of law by an administration committed to its neo-fascist ideology.

If Trump and Musk and MAGA can successfully intimidate judges to bend to his will, his domination of this once democratic republic will be complete. He needs to be stopped at the earliest stages of this anti-American coup. Which means that a coalition of the people, their representatives, and the press must act quickly and courageously. This isn’t a game. It’s our future.

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Leavitt: "We have judges in our judicial branch who are acting as activists, not real arbiters of the law … the fact is, everything President Trump is doing is within his executive authority to do it … all of his actions are constitutional."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-03-16T14:41:28.025Z

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Trump’s Press Secretary Visits Fox News to Contradict Her Boss’s Lies About the Cost of Tariffs

Posted by on March 13, 2025 at 12:45 pm. 1 Comments :

The utterly unnecessary trade war that was started by Donald Trump continues to escalate wildly as the targets of his wrath – mainly historical allies of the U.S. – attempt to deal with his incomprehensibly reckless and childish behavior. Trump’s latest attack is on the European Union and their alcohol products, and was triggered by the E.U. having the gall to defend their markets from Trump’s inbred hostility.

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Donald Trump and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

From the inception of this economic battle, Trump has steadfastly clung to a justification that has no basis in reality. But despite that absence of any rational foundation, Trump knows that he can rely on his Ministry of Propaganda – aka Fox News – to run cover for him.

SEE THIS: Fox News Trump-Fluffer Insists that the Coming Trump Recession Has Nothing To Do With Trump

Trump’s erstwhile Anti-Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, made yet another visit to Fox News to spin her web of lies for the network’s cult viewers. She actually spends more time on Fox News than she does in the White Press Briefing room. And on this occasion she came prepared to unleash a particularly egregious falsehood concerning the Trump Tax (aka tariffs)…

“The president will continue to effectively utilize tariffs while again driving down the cost-of-living in this country. Both things can happen at the same time. Just look at president Trump’s first term as an example. When he left office inflation was a low 1.4 percent.”

There’s a lot of wrong in that brief bit of babble. Let’s begin with the fact that interests rates were low at the end of Trump’s first term because the nation was still recovering from the catastrophic effects of the deadly COVID pandemic that Trump so horribly mismanaged. That is not a scenario that any sane person wants to repeat.

More to the point, Leavitt’s claim that Trump can impose tariff’s and drive down the cost-of-living at the same time is preposterous. Trump himself “has recently acknowledged that tariffs will cause a ‘disturbance.’ [and he] declined to predict that America would avoid a recession as a result of his trade policies.” So Leavitt is straight-up contradicting her boss.

For the record, Trump’s tariff policy is grossly incoherent. On one hand he says that “tariffs” is a “beautiful word” and that they will will raise billions of dollars and greatly improve the economy. On the other hand he says that he will remove the tariffs if his bullying tactics result in our trading partners reciprocating. So he is pledging to revoke the very thing that he said will make America wealthy and boost the economy. Also, he continues to lie that other countries pay the tariffs when, in fact, they are paid by U.S. importers who generally pass the costs on to American consumers.

Even Trump’s argument that the tariffs will cause U.S. consumers to buy American is nonsense. First of all, if we buy American, we don’t get the funds that Trump lies are generated by the tariffs. What’s more, the reason so many products are imported is because they are made cheaper overseas. If we have to buy American, we will be paying more for those products. Unless American companies slash salaries and jobs in order to compete.

So with Trump’s policies we’re paying more if we buy domestic. But we’ll also pay more if we buy imported. And as a bonus he’s hurting American workers. It’s a lose-lose-lose proposition for Americans across the board, and a recipe for economic turmoil. He appears to be determined to spark either a recession or inflation. Do you think that Trump cares? (You don’t have to answer that).

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Trump Declares Himself King of the White House Press Corps, Will Now Decide Who Can Question Him

Posted by on February 26, 2025 at 12:49 pm. NO Comments :

For over a century, the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) has been responsible for setting the standards for reporters who cover the president. Their commitment to independence and professional journalism has ensured that the coverage of the White House and its occupants would be both tough and fair.

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King Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

From its inception, the mission of the WHCA has been to “share the belief, held by our country’s Founders and enshrined in the First Amendment, that an independent news media is vital to the health of the republic.” It is, in fact, the only way to ensure that the interests of the people are being served. Unfortunately, Donald Trump doesn’t agree. And he has dispatched his Propaganda Secretary, Karoline Leavitt, to see to the dismantling of the White House press corps.

SEE THIS: Trump’s Press Secretary Pledges to Plant Pro-Trump Crackpots in the White House Press Room

As evidence of this betrayal of American principles and the Constitution, Leavitt, made an announcement on Wednesday that further erodes any pretense by the Trump administration to value the free press. She said that…

“As you all know, a group of D.C.-based journalists, the White House Correspondents Association, has long dictated which journalists get to ask questions of the President of the United States in these intimate spaces, Not anymore. I am proud to announce that we are giving the power back to the people who read your papers, who watch your television shows, and who listen to your radio stations. Moving forward, the White House press pool, will be determined by the White House Press Team.”

First of all, Leavitt is engaging in the sort of disinformation that is the hallmark of the Trump regime. The WHCA does not “dictate which journalists get to ask questions of the President.” They evaluate the credentials of White House correspondents, and approve those who meet the high standards that warrant access to the halls of power. It is a merit based system that the White House is permitted to participate in.

More to the point, Leavitt’s decree that the WHCA will no longer perform the function that they have been fulfilling admirably for decades is a spine-chilling imitation of how the media is oppressed under the thumb of Vladimir Putin’s Politburo. She isn’t “giving the power back to the people.” She’s giving it to the wannabe dictator who regularly maligns the press as “the enemy of the people.”

This change means that Trump and his flunkies will decide who gets to ask him questions. And their recent decrees in that regard have been guided by their flagrant biases and vengefulness. It could not be more obvious that they intend to censor all those who are not adoringly worshipful of Trump. They have already replaced longstanding media outlets like NBC News, the New York Times, and NPR, with One America News Network, the New York Post, and Breitbart News. These are not exactly icons of journalistic integrity.

SEE ALSO: Trump Kicks Reporters Out of Pentagon Offices, Replaces Them with MAGA Media Mouthpieces

The WHCA responded to this authoritarian decree in a statement saying that…

“This move tears at the independence of a free press in the United States. It suggests the government will choose the journalists who cover the president. In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps.” – Eugene Daniels, White House Correspondents’ Association president.

Trump himself weighed in on the issue saying that…

“We’re gonna be now calling those shots. As you know, we won that lawsuit right there, see the Gulf of America, which is a beautiful name. Most people agree.

“AP has been terrible. I think they’re radical left. I think they’re third rate reporters. I know the specific young lady that works on the account is terrible. she’s a radical left lunatic, as far as I’m concerned.”

Trump on the new policy of the White House picking the journalists who cover the White House: "Well, we're gonna be now calling those shots."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-02-25T22:10:56.551Z

So Herr Trump is bragging that he will be “calling the shots” from now on. And to reinforce his tyrannical tendencies, he insults the White House correspondent for the Associated Press in his familiar infantile fashion.

Elaborating on his malicious attack, Trump referred to his banning of the AP because they refused to bow down to his order to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico in their international editions, where he has no authority to change geographical names. He did not win any lawsuit on the matter. It is scheduled to be heard next month by a judge who appears to be leaning toward the view that Trump is in violation of the Constitution.

While Trump may be able to forbid honest journalists from asking him question in his Washington and Palm Beach bunkers, he cannot stop them from asking questions in their own reporting. However, he may find that the conspicuous absence of his lie-riddled answers will only make his autocracy-driven cowardice more obvious, and eventually, more injurious to his already rotten reputation.

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Trump’s Anti-Press Secretary Talks More to Fox News than to Reporters in the White House

Posted by on February 21, 2025 at 1:26 pm. 2 Comments :

From the earliest days of his public life, Donald Trump has had a love-hate relationship with the media. He whines incessantly anytime he is portrayed in a negative light (e.g. honestly), but craves the constant attention that satiates his massive, yet fragile, ego. It’s a perverse dichotomy that adds fuel to his flaming malignant narcissism.

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Donald Trump and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

This acutely psychotic ambivalence is evident in Trump’s frequent references to the media as “the enemy of the people,” while simultaneously demanding perpetual, round-the-clock coverage of whatever he is doing or saying regardless of how utterly devoid of newsworthiness or coherence. For instance…

SEE THIS: Trump Bashes the Media as ‘The Enemy’ While Being Fluffed on Fox News By Sean Hannity

The dysfunctional relationship between Trump and the press is all too painfully observable in the behavior of his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt. She views her job as one where she acts as the official White House Trump-Fluffer, rather than as a servant of the people tasked with informing the public about critical presidential activities.

To that end, Leavitt has spent most of her time during the first month of Trump’s occupation of the White House visiting with Trump’s Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News. Media Matters reports that she has already made twelve appearances (nearly every other day) on the MAGA-friendly network, along with her White House colleagues who similarly camp out on Fox.

“Top Trump administration officials have appeared on Fox News 124 times since President Donald Trump was sworn in. At least one key nominated or appointed official appeared nearly every day of the past month.”

Leavitt’s tally for Fox News hits comes in third, after Trump’s “border czar,” Thomas Homan (20 visits), and his Counselor to the president, Alina Habba (15 visits). Furthermore, Leavitt’s twelve appearances on Fox is nine more than she has made to the White House Press Briefing Room, where in the past month she has only held three of what used to be called “daily” press briefings.

This is pretty solid evidence that the Trump regime regards Fox News as its certified media dispensary for approved propaganda. Even more so than the White House itself. And it has the advantage of being a safe space where they will encounter only Fox fluffers, and none of those other pesky journalists who ask real and challenging questions with appropriate follow ups. How much more Trumpy can a network get than by actually giving the president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, her own primetime show?

SEE ALSO: Trump’s Nepo-Baby-In-Law, Lara Trump, Hired to Host Primetime Trump-Fluffing Hour on Fox News

As an example of the sort of discourse that the Trump team hopes to avoid, watch this exchange between Leavitt and Peter Alexander of NBC News Friday morning, when Alexander attempted to get her to comment on allegations by Trump of fraud in the Social Security system…

ALEXANDER: Fraud, of course, is a crime. So have you turned over evidence of fraud to the Justice Department, and when should we expect to see those indictments?
LEAVITT: It’s a clever question…There has been extensive fraud. If you look at Social Security. In fact, according to an IG report, from the Social Security Administration, there was $71 billion worth of fraud in one single fiscal year that we know about.
ALEXANDER: To be clear that $71 billion was from 2015 to 2022. So it wasn’t in just one year.

ALEXANDER: Fraud is a crime. Have you turned over evidence of fraud to the Justice Department, and when should we expect to see those indictments?LEAVITT: It's a clever question

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-02-21T17:07:50.845Z

That retort by Alexander was as far as he would get with Leavitt. She repeatedly refused to accept reality, and eventually cut him off with a personal insult saying “Why is the media so against cutting waste, fraud, and abuse? [and] We will not be deterred by people like you.” For the record, Alexander was right. The alleged “fraud” did occur between 2015 and 2022, mostly during Trump’s term. And they knew that, as revealed in their own tweet (below). As previously reported…

To begin with, the improper payments were discovered by the Inspector General during Biden’s term. There was no fraud associated with them. Most were overpayments to eligible recipients that were likely recovered. The total amount was only 0.84% of all Social Security payments. Which is evidence that the system is pretty darn efficient.

When the White House press secretary is on Fox News more than in the White House Press Briefing Room, there is a serious problem that reeks of an administration that is determined to deceive, distort, and disseminate propaganda. At this point there is no rational reason why any news organization should tolerate the Trump regime’s lies and disrespect for the free speech that is protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. It is long past time to cease their capitulation to the aspiring monarch of Mar-a-Lago.

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Trump’s Press Secretary Stumped When Asked If It’s Safe to Fly – By Peter Doocy of Fox News

Posted by on January 31, 2025 at 2:06 pm. NO Comments :

Within hours of the news that an American Airlines jet had collided with a military Blackhawk helicopter and crashed, killing everyone aboard both aircraft, Donald Trump had already drawn his conclusions as to the cause. He surmised that the cause of the tragedy was hiring practices that promoted diversity, equity, and Inclusion (DEI). He followed that up by blaming Presidents Obama and Biden.

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Donald Trump and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

Never mind that Trump had no evidence whatsoever that his racist conclusions had any merit, or even a remote relationship with reality. He neglected expressions of concern or condolences in order to advance his agenda of noxious bigotry, and to exploit the tragedy to attack his political foes. And of course, that narrative was faithfully supported by his obedient politburo chief, Karoline Leavitt, who has been busy clearing press credentials for devoted MAGA cultists.

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On Friday morning, the White House press briefing took a bizarre turn when Peter Doocy of Fox News rose to ask Leavitt a question about the safety of air travel in America. He made an uncharacteristically insightful point about the consequences of Trump’s drumbeating of disparagement toward employees in the aviation sector that he regards as being too dark skinned, feminine, or otherwise representative of the diversity of the nation.

Doocy: If president Trump is telling us that air traffic control towers are staffed with unqualified controllers, DEI hires who never should have been brought on, then it’s not safe to fly commercially, is it?
Leavitt: The president was asked and answered this yesterday, and he believes that it is still indeed safe and Americans should feel safe traveling our skies. With that said, two things can be true at the same time. And we certainly have seen the deterioration of federal hiring standards at the Federal Aviation Administration. And the president wants to increase those standards.

PETER DOOCY: Given DEI hires, it's not safe to fly commercially, is it?LEAVITT: The president believes it is still indeed safe. With that said …

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-01-31T18:17:09.467Z

Doocy’s question staggered Leavitt. It makes sense to reason that aviation safety is at risk if the people responsible for it are incompetent and/or unqualified, as Trump insists. And anyone who accepts Trump’s assessment should keep their feet firmly planted on the ground, rather than put their lives in the hands of freeloaders who shouldn’t have been hired. Right?

Well, according to Leavitt, the answer is more complex. She argues that “two things can be true at the same time.” In her view, the pilots, air traffic controllers, and other aviation staff can be inferior clods who, nevertheless, are still perfectly able to insure the safety of American travelers. Except for the times that they cause jetliners to crash into the Potomac. Leavitt elaborated on her duplicity theory saying that…

“When you’re flying with your loved ones, do you pray that your airplane lands safely and gets you to your destination or do you pray that the pilot has a certain skin color? I think we all know the answer.”

The choices Leavitt offers here are absurd in the extreme. Obviously every air passenger wants to land safely. But nobody “prays” that “the pilot has a certain skin color.” Well, except for racist Trump cultists and MAGA disciples who will only approve of white pilots. For instance, Trump flunky Charlie Kirk actually said “I’m sorry. If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.'”

Trump’s obsession with casting blame on Blacks, women, Democrats, and others for whom he has a visceral, inbred hatred, is emblematic of his rancid divisiveness. And in the furtherance of his prejudices, he couldn’t care less about whether or not what he’s saying about DEI true. And as PolitiFact affirms, it isn’t. But that won’t stop him. He won’t stop lying because he’s pathologically incapable of it. What’s more, he knows that his cult followers not only accept it, they love it.

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Trump’s Press Secretary Pledges to Plant Pro-Trump Crackpots in the White House Press Room

Posted by on January 29, 2025 at 1:19 pm. 3 Comments :

As Donald Trump continues his mission to guide America down the path toward his anti-democratic brand of authoritarianism, his administration underlings are faithfully carrying out his directives in a manner that is familiar to students of tyrannical regimes throughout history.

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Donald Trump and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt

Prominent among Trump’s team of neo-fascistas is his Politburo Chief, Karoline Leavitt, whose commitment disseminating propaganda would make Goebbels proud. She has been a devoted advocate of transforming the role of press secretary into a clearing house for Trump’s official falsehoods and MAGA evangelism.

SEE THIS: Trump’s Press Secretary Plans to Turn the WH Briefing Room Into a Pro-Trump Propaganda Mill

On Tuesday Leavitt told reporters about her intention to allow members of “new media” to apply for White House press credentials. by that she means the sort of MAGA friendly Internet influencers that Trump relied on to spread his dishonest campaign messages last year. She said that…

“I take great pride in opening up this room to new media voices to share the president’s message with as many Americans as possible. In doing so, number one, we will ensure that outlets like yours, Axios and Breitbart, which are widely respected and viewed outlets, have an actual seat in this room every day. We also, again, encourage anybody in this country, whether you are a TikTok content creator, a blogger, a podcaster, if you are producing legitimate news content, no matter the medium you will be allowed to apply for press credentials to this White House.”

This would be a good time to remind everyone that in Trump World Joe Rogan and Alex Jones produce “legitimate news content.” So Leavitt would permit crackpots like that to take the seats of credible journalist that Trump doesn’t like, such as Jim Acosta who was just elbowed out of CNN by executives who are partial to, or afraid of, Trump.

SEE ALSO : Jim Acosta’s Parting Words for CNN (and Trump): It Is Never a Good Time to Bow Down to a Tyrant

Leavitt, however, neglected to note that it is not within her duties as press secretary to decide who gets to attend the White House press briefings. While the White House Press Office does authorize access to the White House itself, reporters need to be accredited by the independent White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) and pass a background check by the Secret Service. Something tells me that Alex Jones, and others of his ilk, would have difficulty meeting either of those criteria.

So it took eight days into Trump 2.0 before Leavitt finally held her first press briefing from the White House. And it surely didn’t disappoint those who were expecting a free-flowing festival of partisan flackery. Despite her stated commitment to “telling the truth from this podium every single day,” she lied repeatedly, including in her promise to tell the truth “every single day,” since she’s only been at that podium one day so far.

Among Leavitt’s lies were those that addressed Trump’s halting of federal assistance and grant programs, his inhumane mass deportation plans, his non-existent initiatives to lower consumer prices, his vengeful revocation of security for former government officials, his illegal firing of inspectors general and Justice Department officials, his inflationary tariffs, and his absurd claim that he sent the military to California to turn a magic faucet that would get the water flowing.

Michael Kosta of “The Daily Show” was among those watching Leavitt’s debut performance. And he couldn’t help but notice her attitudinal shift from campaign flack to White House hack. He presented a video clip demonstrating how she has moved forward from her prior role as a Biden basher…

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Trump’s Press Secretary Plans to Turn the WH Briefing Room Into a Pro-Trump Propaganda Mill

Posted by on December 20, 2024 at 2:10 pm. NO Comments :

From the earliest days of Donald Trump’s political life he has had a love/hate relationship with the press. He loved when it brought him the attention that he craved. But he hated when it failed to exalt him as Gawd’s gift to humanity.

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Trump’s malignant narcissism is evident in nearly every public utterance he makes. And the common thread that weaves through all of his inbred hostilities is his abhorrence of the media that he regular refers to in Stalinist terms as “the enemy of the people.” Just since the recent election, Trump has taken to threatening the national news networks with revocation of their broadcast licenses (which don’t exist), and the nomination of his devoted cult disciple, Kash Patel, who shares his animosity toward the press…

SEE THIS: Trump’s Free Press? His FBI Flunky Kash Patel Threatens to ‘Come After the People in the Media’

One of Trump’s primary goals for his reoccupation of the White House is to remake its relationship with the media. To that end, he dispatched his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, to deliver a message via his Ministry of Propaganda (aka Fox News), regarding the restructuring of the White House Press Briefing Room. Leavitt openly explained precisely how she intends to poison the process by which the press informs the public about presidential affairs.

“I hope the legacy media will take a step back and realize that the American people haven’t listened to their lies. Trust in the legacy media is at an all-time low. And Trump ran in an untraditional media lane on the campaign trail. Big part of the reason he won. Because he sat down with podcasters and social influencers and new voices that the American people are clearly listening to. And as Trump’s press secretary, we’re gonna find new ways to bring those voices into the briefing room as well. Which I think will be a very effective way to continue to get the president’s message out to the American people.”

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Leavitt is right that trust in the media is low. Although a big part of the reason for that is Trump’s constant whining about any criticism of him as “fake news.” Another reason is that much of the press has been too timid to call out Trump’s blatant lies and his inability to speak coherently on any subject. The result is that he gets to filibuster interviews with deceit, deflection, and gibberish. None of that inspires trust.

However, Leavitt is wrong to propose that the White House Press Room should open its doors to the sort of “podcasters and and social influencers” who kissed Trump’s – let’s say ring – during his campaign. The Press Room is not supposed to be an outlet for partisan propaganda. It is there to provide journalists with access to the president and his staff in order to inform the public.

Leavitt’s vision – and Trump’s – is to turn the Press Room into a propaganda mill where only those who have sworn allegiance to Trump will be able to ask questions that they know will illicit positive responses that glorify Dear Leader. That’s the recipe for fascism that is cooked up by the totalitarian dictators who Trump reveres and seeks to emulate.

If the press ever hopes to raise the level of trust that they receive from the public, they need to reject this new perversion of press relations with the White House. They need to condemn it as a farce that violates the Constitution’s First Amendment protecting freedom of the press. And they need to resist Trump’s efforts to subjugate them to the servitude of his ego. Will they rise to the occasion? Stay tuned.

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Trump’s Press Secretary Lies on Fox News that Reporters are ‘Excited that Trump Will Be Back’

Posted by on December 12, 2024 at 3:43 pm. 1 Comments :

As Donald Trump assembles his team for the reprise of his occupation of the White House, he is making it crystal clear that there is only one unnegotiable prerequisite for service in his administration: Unflinching fealty to Trump. Above and beyond everything else, the malignant Narcissist-in-Chief demands absolute adoration at all times.

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Other job criteria, such as a total lack of relevant experience, and a commitment to dismantling whatever department you’re assigned to manage, are important, but have room for a small measure of flexibility. The result is that Trump’s Cabinet is going to be populated by incompetent know-nothings, who worship Dear Leader, and advance the interests of right-wing extremists and elitists.

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An outstanding demonstration of this perverse tilt of the political landscape occurred Thursday on Fox News. Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, visited the MAGA Ministry of Propaganda where she offered a uniquely demented opinion about the state of the media…

“If you talk to reporters off the record they will tell you they are excited that Trump will be back in the Oval Office because they know how much access they had to him and his press secretaries in his first term.”

WHUT? First of all, the likelihood that Leavitt got off the record expressions of “excitement” from reporters gushing over the prospect of Trump’s return is about as realistic as Trump’s hysterical claims that “big, strong. men with tears in their eyes” are constantly flocking to him to express their undying gratitude and devotion.

Furthermore, Leavitt’s assertion that reporters recalled Trump’s previous playacting as president as a time when they had extraordinary access to him and his press office is laughable. In fact, Trump had virtually discontinued the routine daily press briefings that were held by the press secretaries of all other modern day presidents. There times when Trump’s White House didn’t have a press briefing for months on end. And when he addressed reporters it was often impromptu gaggles next to a waiting helicopter, where he hurled lies and insults without actually answering any questions.

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What’s more, there are some disturbing reasons why reporters are actually worried about the next Trump term. Throughout his campaign this year he has made overt threats aimed at the media that he regularly refers to in Stalinist terms as “the enemy of the people.” He has proposed replacing credible journalists in the White House Press Room with screwballs, conspiracy crackpots, and fawning sycophants and MAGA trolls, like Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson.

Even worse, Trump’s nominee to be Director of the FBI, Kash Patel, recently threatened the press, saying that “We’re going to come after the people in the media who lied about American citizens who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We’re going to come after you.”

You really have to wonder who the reporters are that Leavitt says “are excited that Trump will be back in the Oval Office”? The only plausible people who would say that are folks like Steve Bannon, or Megyn Kelly, or maybe the alleged drug-addled sex trafficker, Matt Gaetz, who was recently dumped as Trump’s nominee to be Attorney General, but who is now scheduled to host a primetime show on the piddling, Trump-fluffing, One America News.

So it doesn’t seem like the press corps is really all that excited by Trump’s return. More likely, they are nervous and preparing for a hostile relationship with the White House for the next four years. However, if nothing else, Leavitt is doing precisely the sort of job that Trump wants her to do. And she is proving her bona fides as Trump-worthy disseminator of dishonesty and lies.

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DNC Projects the Real Message of Trump’s Anti-American MAGA-Palooza onto Madison Square Garden

Posted by on October 28, 2024 at 1:46 pm. 2 Comments :

As Election Day draws near, candidates generally make more concerted efforts to refine the part of their message that they want voters to focus on. For instance, Kamala Harris is currently talking more about lowering the economic burdens on middle class families, protecting reproductive freedom and access to healthcare, and preserving American democracy.

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Donald Trump’s campaign is also seeking to remind voters of what he regards as the most important themes to reinforce in the minds of his MAGA minions. And judging by the rally he held at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, that appears to be his affinity for the neo-fascist ideals that have long been present in his raging cult rally rants.

However, Trump is increasing the intensity of his hate-speech for these final days of the campaign and, with the help of his Ministry of Propaganda, Fox News, he’s making certain that his devotees don’t miss the point.

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What Trump and his campaign strategists may not understand is that the Harris campaign is just as anxious for the voters to see the real Trump as Trump is. Which is why the Democratic Party was outside of Trump’s MSG rally projecting this message onto the arena where he was speaking: “Trump Praised Hitler.”

Indeed, it was recently revealed that Trump told his White House Chief of Staff, Gen. John Kelly, that he needed the “the kind of generals that Hitler had.” Kelly went further to note that Trump himself “certainly falls into the general definition of fascist, for sure.”

During the MSG event, Trump’s surrogates affirmed much of what was already known about Trump’s character, or lack thereof. An especially troubling example was when an alleged comedian dropped a repulsive insult aimed at fellow American citizens saying that “There is literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.”

The potential for harm by that “joke” was recognized by some members of the Trump team, and they tried meekly to distance themselves from it. But that’s a difficult task since it mirrors Trump’s own rhetoric wherein he said that “America is a garbage can.” The futile attempt to clean up the joke continued the next morning on Fox News…

Fox and Friends co-host Steve Doocy: This morning the mainstream media picked up on the comic’s comments, which were offensive and have been denounced by the campaign and everybody else. What went on with that?”
Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt: It was a comedian who made a joke in poor taste. Obviously it does not reflect the views of president Trump or our campaign. And I think it is sad that the media will pick up on one joke that was made by a comedian rather than the truth that was shared by the phenomenal list of speakers that we had. We had congressmen and women. We hade Sen. JD Vance. […] And the crowd, they didn’t mind. It was a diverse group of people. The joke fell flat. But the crowd was there because they know who president Trump is.

First of all, Doocy’s assertion that the comic’s comments were “denounced” is not exactly accurate. There was only a statement saying that it “did not reflect” the views of Trump or his campaign. That’s a long way from saying, for example, “That sort of hateful bigotry is intolerable and we unreservedly repudiate it.” Also, Doocy’s claim that “everybody” denounced is untrue. In fact, nobody who followed the comedian, including Trump, bothered to condemn his remarks.

Secondly, Trump’s spokeswoman, Leavitt, let the comedian off with a gentle wrist-slap, saying only that the joke was in “poor taste.” Then she complained that the media dared to report this disgustingly racist attempt at humor by an approved guest of the Trump campaign who must have known what he would say if his script was loaded into the TelePrompTer. Yet nobody sought to modify the bit, which included another joke about the comedian carving watermelons with his Black friends for Halloween.

Finally, Leavitt downplayed the whole affair because, as she noted, “the crowd didn’t mind.” So what? Of course they didn’t mind. Trump’s racism is why they love him. And it proves the one thing that Leavitt got right. That “the crowd was there because they know who president Trump is.”

Exactly! And so does the majority of the American people. And if they all get out to vote between now and November 5th, Trump will be the one put in the garbage bin of history. LFG!

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