It will never get old.
The insults, the smears, the slander – all the invective President Trump throws at the media will never wear out its potency. Time and time again, our current media mandarins prove to value the partisan tilting of news over independent and objective coverage. Just today, an MSNBC hack was caught in a bald-faced lie about Attorney General Jeff Sessions. (RELATED: Katy Tur Accuses Jeff Sessions Of Chanting ‘Lock Her Up,’ But Video Tells Another Story.)
The press trips over itself trying to paint the Trump Administration in a bad light. That’s why it’s so satisfying to watch the President hit back so forcefully against a hostile media. Republican presidents in the past were content to sit and take the press’s abuse. Not Trump. He gets right down in the mud and wrestles them for control of the narrative.
During his speech before the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention, Trump once again took aim at the dirty press pit, calling it out by name. You have to see how the crowd reacted:
“Just remember, what you are seeing and what you are reading is not what’s happening” Trump says at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention. pic.twitter.com/NWFsB8QV2g
— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) July 24, 2018
And here’s the kicker:
“Just stick with us, don’t believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news.”
Trump, the commander in chief, points to the press in the back, veterans boo, jeer and applaud. Unsettling. pic.twitter.com/1L3FiOlo4H
— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) July 24, 2018
A crowd full of veterans and their supporters just booed the media. How great is that?
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Just look at the whining and gnashing of teeth by journalists who live on Twitter:
“Stick with us. Don’t believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news,” Trump says at Veterans of Foreign Wars convention. Scores of veterans, right on cue from commander in chief, point to press riser and boo and hiss.
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) July 24, 2018
Humiliating the press is the only way to send a message: fake news and reporting will not be tolerated. Until the media improves its sloppy reporting methods, they should be subjected to more ridicule.