{"id":41677,"date":"2019-06-03T12:26:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T19:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41677"},"modified":"2019-06-03T12:41:27","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T19:41:27","slug":"wannabe-dictator-trump-calls-for-boycott-of-att-to-do-something-about-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41677","title":{"rendered":"Wannabe Dictator Trump Calls For Boycott of AT&#038;T to &#8216;Do Something&#8217; About CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last time Trump left the country he breached diplomatic protocol in Japan with an infantile political attack on Joe Biden. At the same time, he <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41614\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">took sides with Kim Jong Un<\/a><\/strong>, the murderous tyrant with whom he <em>&#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LV6mVmAVQU4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">fell in love<\/a><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/em> And now Trump is travelling abroad again, but this time, as he prepared to depart for the U.K., he managed to embarrass America before he even left by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=41660\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">insulting the Duchess of Sussex<\/a><\/strong>, Meghan Markle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-tyrant.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Tyrant Dictator\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35821\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/2763316430349801\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><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>Having arrived in England, Trump sought to escalate his diplomatic incompetence with another attack on the U.S. media. That in itself is to be expected from the president who hates the freedoms protected by the First Amendment and regards the press as <em>&#8220;the enemy of the people.&#8221;<\/em> However, this time he is attacking American institutions from foreign soil and attempting to bully them into obedience to his will.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just arrived in the United Kingdom. The only problem is that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CNN<\/a> is the primary source of news available from the U.S. After watching it for a short while, I turned it off. All negative &amp; so much Fake News, very bad for U.S. Big ratings drop. Why doesn\u2019t owner <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ATT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ATT<\/a> do something?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1135495710894374917?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I believe that if people stoped using or subscribing to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ATT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ATT<\/a>, they would be forced to make big changes at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CNN<\/a>, which is dying in the ratings anyway. It is so unfair with such bad, Fake News! Why wouldn\u2019t they act. When the World watches <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CNN<\/a>, it gets a false picture of USA. Sad!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1135499002626154496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>These comments are despicable on many levels. First of all, he is admitting that the only news source he is comfortable watching is the Trump-fluffing sycophants of Fox News. And when away from home, he desperately needs Fox to stroke his fragile ego. Furthermore, he fails to document he what describes as <em>&#8220;all negative&#8221;<\/em> with any examples. Suffice to say that any criticism of him was enough to get him to change the channel to less objectionable programming like cooking or golf.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is also displaying his utter ignorance of the television business. CNN is not only enjoying their <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/briefings\/cf4270\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">highest ratings in years<\/a><\/strong>, they are more profitable than ever. But no one will be surprised that Trump is either stupid or lying. That&#8217;s the new normal for the Era of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The worst part of this Twitter tirade, though, is Trump&#8217;s gleeful assault on an American business. He doesn&#8217;t care who he hurts so long as he can get vengeance for whatever slight he thinks he&#8217;s the victim of. That&#8217;s typical of his inherent weakness and narcissism. But make no mistake, his petulant whining is aimed at more than 250,000 employees of an American company. It is totally unprecedented for an U.S. president to call for a boycott of an U.S. company with tens of thousands of American workers. And his malicious smear is even worse coming from overseas.<\/p>\n<p>And as if all of that weren&#8217;t bad enough, Trump&#8217;s attack is based on his displeasure with how the free press is doing their job. What he thinks is negative reporting is really just a factual representation of what he actually does and says. The media can&#8217;t help it if his words and actions are glaringly dumb and harmful. And what exactly does Trump think that AT&#038;T should do? He insists that they should be <em>&#8220;forced to make big changes at CNN.&#8221;<\/em> But forcing the press to behave in a manner that is acceptable to political leaders is what we would expect from the fascist regimes that control their media. Which is what Trump is advocating and yearning for.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, while he whines that the world <em>&#8220;gets a false picture of USA&#8221;<\/em> from CNN, the world has actually made a deliberate choice. Fox News used to be carried in the U.K. but they discontinued their service two years ago because <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-41087659\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">nobody was watching it<\/a><\/strong> A company spokeswoman said that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Fox News is focused on the US market and designed for a US audience and, accordingly, it averages only a few thousand viewers across the day in the UK. We have concluded that it is not in our commercial interest to continue providing Fox News in the UK.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So Trump wants to boycott AT&#038;T, hurt American workers, and dishonor the Constitution, all in an effort to bully the media into slobbering over him the way Fox News does. Never mind that the Brits have already rejected the lies and propaganda that is the hallmark of Fox&#8217;s deceitful brand of <em>&#8220;journalism.&#8221;<\/em> Like his pals Kim Jong Un, Xi Jinping, and Vladimir Putin, Trump wants to coerce the press into acting like his own personal PR agency. And the sentiments in these tweets are direct attacks on the free press, as well as free markets. They are are antithetical to long held and cherished American principles. But then, so is almost everything Trump does and says.<\/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\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">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 last time Trump left the country he breached diplomatic protocol in Japan with an infantile political attack on Joe Biden. At the same time, he took sides with Kim Jong Un, the murderous tyrant with whom he &#8220;fell in love.&#8221; And now Trump is travelling abroad again, but this time, as he prepared to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35821,"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":[14,1,684,1200,8,16],"tags":[112,42,554,33],"class_list":["post-41677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-press","category-general","category-media-bias","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-att","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-tyrant.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-aQd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50890,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=50890","url_meta":{"origin":41677,"position":0},"title":"Trump-Fluffing One America News Network (OAN) Was Created and Funded By AT&#038;T","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/6\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The right-wing media world has been dominated by Fox News for nearly twenty-five years. 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