{"id":39267,"date":"2018-09-26T10:09:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T17:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39267"},"modified":"2018-09-26T11:07:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T18:07:59","slug":"the-delusional-fox-news-love-fest-with-trump-and-the-world-they-love-to-be-with-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=39267","title":{"rendered":"The Delusional Fox News Love Fest with Trump and the World: ‘They Love to Be with Him’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Any observer who is being objective has to concede that Donald Trump is sinking ever further into an abyss of his own making. He continues to shamelessly exalt himself with obviously false praise for achievements that either don’t exist or that he had nothing to do with. And he is forced to rely on his State TV sycophants at Fox News<\/a><\/strong> for positive reinforcement, even if it’s totally made up.<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday morning there was another such episode on Fox and Friends that was laughably absurd. And it was appropriately triggered by the laughter at Trump when he tried to tell the United Nations that he has “accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.”<\/em> The world’s diplomats knew that that was a ludicrous statement and responded by mocking it. Trump later pretended that he intended it as a joke even though he said at the time that he “didn’t expect that reaction.”<\/em> Or perhaps he was doing his Pee Wee Herman imitation by saying that “I meant to do that.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, Trump sent his U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley, to visit with his Fox friends the next day. Her purpose was to attempt to fix the correct impression that Trump was disrespected by the world’s diplomats. And she was greeted by the “Curvy Couch”<\/em> potatoes warmly with co-host Anna Kooiman gushing “Congratulations on your success as the U.N. ambassador. We love you so much.”<\/em> But that was just the beginning of the unabashed love-in at Fox News, as exemplified in this exchange (video below):<\/p>\n

Kooiman:<\/strong> I know you were in the room when the laugh happened. Sometimes the media can portray it as one thing and it’s not that at all. What was it like and why that reaction?
\nHaley:<\/strong> The media has got this so wrong. I deal with these leaders every single day. I know exactly how they think. Do they love America? No. Do they respect America? Now they do. When he said that, they loved how honest he is and it’s not diplomatic and they find it funny. […] I saw that the media was trying to make it something disrespectful. That’s not what it was. They love to be with him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See? The room full of guffawing U.N. ambassadors were just unable to restrain their boundless affection for Trump and it came out sounding like impolite chuckles. Never mind that the ambassadors themselves have already affirmed that they were laughing AT Trump<\/a><\/strong>. But Haley still asserts that his lies about how productive he’s been were greeted by the U.N. as “honesty”<\/em> that for some reason Haley thinks is not diplomatic. The truth, according to Haley, is that the ambassadors just love being with Trump. And she even noted that his ad libbing “made them love him even more.”<\/em> Which leaves just one question to be answered with regard to this assessment of Trump’s performance: Does anyone else feel like throwing up?<\/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