{"id":36630,"date":"2018-01-03T08:42:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T16:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=36630"},"modified":"2018-01-03T08:46:57","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T16:46:57","slug":"fear-and-desperation-spur-trump-to-announce-his-own-reality-tv-fake-news-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=36630","title":{"rendered":"Fear and Desperation Spur Trump to Announce His Own &#8216;Reality TV&#8217; Fake News Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current President of the United States is someone whose previous job was hosting a so-called reality TV game show. And that utterly irrelevant experience is showing as Donald Trump continues to embarrass himself and the nation on the world stage. His obvious intellectual and emotional inadequacies prove that he is ill-equipped for the job of president, which may explain why he spends so little time doing it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trumo-award.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36632\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/1990575664290552\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Much of the world faces crises that threaten the stability of international affairs. At times like these it is important to have a leader who recognizes the risks and provides security and solutions. Unfortunately, Trump offers just the opposite. In a series of ignorant tweets on Tuesday, the President managed to inflame everyone from Iranians to North Koreans to Pakistanis to Palestinians to his own <em>&#8220;Deep State&#8221;<\/em> Department of Justice. And true to form, his approach was childish and ego-driven. He actually got into a phallic showdown with Kim Jong Un over whose <em>&#8220;Nuclear Button&#8221;<\/em> was bigger.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst this crazed tweetstorming, news broke that tightened the legal noose around Trump&#8217;s neck. In <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/02\/opinion\/republicans-investigation-fusion-gps.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">an op-ed<\/a><\/strong> for the New York Times, the founders of Fusion GPS say there are credible allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, and that Republicans in Congress are suppressing it. So consistent with his psychological pathology, Trump is seeking to mask his fear with diversionary tactics. On this occasion his desperation could not be more transparent. He posted a tweet slamming the media in a way only a former TV game show host could:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I will be announcing THE MOST DISHONEST &amp; CORRUPT MEDIA AWARDS OF THE YEAR on Monday at 5:00 o\u2019clock. Subjects will cover Dishonesty &amp; Bad Reporting in various categories from the Fake News Media. Stay tuned!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/948359545767841792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Well gosh, we can all hardly wait for that. Who will win his BS awards? Do you think it might be the <em>&#8220;failing&#8221;<\/em> New York Times or <em>&#8220;fake news&#8221;<\/em> CNN? Perhaps there was a clue on his website where Trump <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/action.donaldjtrump.com\/king-of-fake-news-poll\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posted a poll<\/a><\/strong> seeking to <em>&#8220;Crown the King of Fake News.&#8221;<\/em> The poll had only three questions, each asking whether a particular news item was <em>&#8220;fake,&#8221;<\/em> <em>&#8220;faker,&#8221;<\/em> or <em>&#8220;fakest.&#8221;<\/em> (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-fake-news-poll.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a screen shot<\/a><\/strong>). Trump foreshadowed this gala awards ceremony a few weeks ago with a tweet that said:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We should have a contest as to which of the Networks, plus CNN and not including Fox, is the most dishonest, corrupt and\/or distorted in its political coverage of your favorite President (me). They are all bad. Winner to receive the FAKE NEWS TROPHY!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/935147410472480769?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 27, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So Trump has been thinking about having this contest for some time. And he was smart enough to exclude Fox News from the competition. He must have have known that Fox would dominate every category. In fact, shortly after that tweet Rasmussen Reports <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=36324\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">conducted a survey<\/a><\/strong> based on Trump&#8217;s fake news trophy idea. And surprisingly, for the notoriously right-wing pollster, <em>&#8220;40% of all voters think Fox News should be the winner of the first annual Fake News Trophy.&#8221;<\/em> CNN came in a distant second with only twenty-five percent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be watching for Trump&#8217;s announcement on Monday for the results of his awards show. Even though the outcome could not be easier to predict. But no matter who <em>&#8220;wins&#8221;<\/em> the true award will still go to Donald Trump for being trusted less than the media he despises. Recent polling shows that, despite Trump\u2019s attempts to smear the media, most Americans continue to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=35105\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">trust the press<\/a><\/strong> more than they trust the President. It\u2019s not even close. And part of the reason is that he engages in stupidities like this fake news award. Americans are smart enough to know that he&#8217;s only doing it to divert attention from his criminal and treasonous behavior that is being revealed more every day.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current President of the United States is someone whose previous job was hosting a so-called reality TV game show. And that utterly irrelevant experience is showing as Donald Trump continues to embarrass himself and the nation on the world stage. His obvious intellectual and emotional inadequacies prove that he is ill-equipped for the job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,684,1200],"tags":[42,554,33,95],"class_list":["post-36630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trumo-award.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-9wO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40051,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=40051","url_meta":{"origin":36630,"position":0},"title":"Donald Trump&#8217;s Reality TV Presidency: Defense Secretary is the Latest &#8216;Acting&#8217; Cabinet Official","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/23\/2018","format":false,"excerpt":"With all of the controversy and melodrama that emanates daily from the historically chaotic White House of Donald Trump, it's easy to forget his humble beginnings as the host of a reality TV game show. 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