{"id":42663,"date":"2019-09-04T13:50:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T20:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42663"},"modified":"2019-09-04T14:04:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T21:04:24","slug":"the-presidents-experts-on-any-subject-are-mainly-trump-fluffing-fox-news-hacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42663","title":{"rendered":"The President’s ‘Experts’ on Any Subject are Mainly Trump-Fluffing Fox News Hacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is no question that Donald Trump has ushered in an era of presidential firsts: The first president to welcome and encourage Russian election help; the first to enrich himself by patronizing his own properties; the first to brag about committing sexual assault; the first to tell more than 12,000 lies; the first to engage in childish name-calling; the first to never have a positive favorable polling; the first to malign the media in Stalinist terms as “the enemy of the people;”<\/em> the first to express more loyalty to foreign dictators than to our allies and even our own intelligence community; the first to rip babies from their parents and lock them in cages; the first to … oh hell, this could go on forever.<\/p>\n

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Another first that Trump has achieved concerns his inner circle of advisors and White House staff. The President of the United States is uniquely positioned to have access to the most experienced and intelligent people in the world. The issues that any president faces require that level of advice and counsel, whether it is about economics, diplomacy, legislation, healthcare, the military, and so much more. But Trump has assembled a confederacy of dunces in his Cabinet who know little about the departments they have been appointed to manage. Rick Perry knows nothing about energy. Ben Carson never spent five minutes studying urban planning. Betsy DeVos has no education background whatsoever. And the rest of the Cabinet is similarly incompetent.<\/p>\n

However, none of that really matters because Trump doesn’t turn to them for guidance on any issue anyway. Instead, he consults his “Shadow Cabinet,”<\/em> the presenters and contributors of Fox News. In many cases Trump has actually tapped Fox hosts for White House jobs. But even when he hasn’t, he still relies on their advice which he gets from his many hours of watching Fox News instead of doing any actual work.<\/p>\n

The result of Trump’s addiction to Fox is that he is getting the most shallow, inappropriate, and dangerous advice available from people who have never studied the subjects on which they pontificate on TV. A quick examination of Trump’s Twitter feed revealed that every single person he quoted in the past five days was a TV talker. For instance:<\/p>\n