{"id":38129,"date":"2018-06-08T15:07:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T22:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38129"},"modified":"2018-06-08T15:10:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T22:10:53","slug":"trump-says-he-believes-in-the-free-press-that-he-says-is-the-enemy-of-the-american-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=38129","title":{"rendered":"Trump Says He Believes in the Free Press – That He Says is ‘The Enemy of the American People’"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday Donald Trump participated in a press avail with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Reporters asked him about how he was preparing for the (allegedly) upcoming summit meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, Trump replied<\/a><\/strong> “I think I\u2019m very well prepared. I don\u2019t think I have to prepare very much. It\u2019s about attitude.”<\/em> That, besides being a frightening glimpse into Trump’s diseased mindset, is typical of his notorious aversion to learning anything or knowing what the fudge he’s talking about. A responsible leader would study vigorously for weeks prior to a meeting as important as the one with Kim.<\/p>\n

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On Friday Trump took a few minutes<\/a><\/strong> to answer some questions on his way the G7 meeting in Canada. When reporters sought to confirm his troubling statement about preparation, Trump lied and said that he never said it. He then went on to say that his unedited remarks specified that he had been preparing his whole life for this meeting. However, he didn’t say anything of the kind. And even if he had, that would only exacerbate the idiocy of his thinking. You can’t prepare for a specific diplomatic encounter with a lifetime of greed, lust, and ego gratification. Clearly he had not been preparing for such a meeting his whole life. Trump’s life could only be considered preparation for becoming a dishonest, morally and financially bankrupt, reality TV game show host and treasonous tool of America’s enemies.<\/p>\n

In refuting the accurate reports of his inability and contempt for preparation, Trump once again blamed the whole thing on “fake news.”<\/em> Which makes what he said immediately after all the more ironic. The subject had segued to leakers in government. So Trump wanted to make sure that everyone knew about his commitment to the free press. He said that:<\/p>\n

“I believe strongly in freedom of press. I’m a big, big believer in freedom of press. But I’m also a believer in classified information.”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The evidence of Trump’s belief in freedom of the press is somewhere between thin and nonexistent. This is the president who has repeatedly referred to the press in Stalinist terms as “the enemy of the American people.”<\/em><\/a><\/strong> And his insistence on adding the prefix “fake”<\/em> whenever he refers to the news is a deliberate attempt to discredit all of the media, as well as the Constitution that protects it. His all too obvious purpose is to lay a foundation of distrust so that he can dismiss any reporting that is critical of him. He has literally called for the jailing of reporters and for prohibiting media sources<\/a><\/strong> he doesn’t like from covering him. That’s his idea of a strong belief in freedom of the press.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Trump is going to cut his G7 visit short because he’s too scared of spending time with the American allies he’s alienated. And since his pal Vladimir Putin won’t be there, it couldn’t be much fun for him. Trump said that Russia should be readmitted to the G7. But why would that be necessary since he is there to do whatever Putin would want? Then he’s off to hang out with Kim in Singapore, where his life of preparation will likely result in him giving Hawaii to North Korea. And if he gets his way, there will be no media there (except for Fox News) to report it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Thursday Donald Trump participated in a press avail with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Reporters asked him about how he was preparing for the (allegedly) upcoming summit meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, Trump replied “I think I\u2019m very well prepared. I don\u2019t think I have to prepare very much. It\u2019s about attitude.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33926,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,1,1200],"tags":[554,1135,1263],"class_list":["post-38129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-press","category-general","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-free-press","tag-kim-jong-un"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-9UZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":35376,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=35376","url_meta":{"origin":38129,"position":0},"title":"Fox News Implies That Donald Trump is Just as Batty as Kim Jong-Un. 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