November 30, 2024
Trump Exhausts Media
Timothy Birdnow
The White House Press Corps is bitterly complaining about how exhausting it is to cover Trump and how they are already worn out.
Here is what caught my eye on this:
Uh, that's the whole point Julia.
Trump practices the principles advocated by Sun Tzu, the ancient chinese military philosopher. One of Sun Tzu's admonishions was to be unpredictable, to confuse an enemy commander by not doing what seems the logical course of action.
It works and Trump had to view the media as an enemy as that is how they behaved. So he is far away when they think he's near, active when they think he's passive, organized when they think he's confused. This made it difficult for the media to launch a coordinated attack on Trump over any issue; they didn't know where to fire their guns.
The "chaos" and "confusion" of Trump's administration is a feature, not a bug. And a very clever strategy. Anybody else would have been taken down by the media had they played the game as it has always been played.
Trump also believes in a Hegelian dialectic and uses competition between different staff members as a tool to drive productivity and creativity. He sets people against each-other and then skims off the cream that rises to the top. It's an effective strategy if a bit ruthless. Trump doesn't operate on the theory that you baby your underlings; he is there to do a job and he demands excellence from those under him. It's not MY management style, but then Trump made a billion dollars and I made peanuts so I can't argue with success.
But the media is used to politics as usual and cannot stand the fact Trump runs things quite differently.
Julie Manchester continues:
Why so exhausted? Could it be because the press corpse, er, corp was desperately trying to undermine Mr. Trump all along and now is exhausted from the failed effort?
More from the article:
Trump used Twitter like a virtuoso, sending the media into a conniption with just a few carefully chosen "careless" words. So now they are vowing to not fall for it (I doubt they can stop themselves) and plan "big picture" stories meaning lies spun into whole narratives, like a kind of evil Hallmark Christmas tale for Trump haters. But she doesn't understand that they already did that and they cannot keep doing 'big picture" stories about Trump indefinitely. The need to destroy MAGA looms over everything they do and that can only happen if the head of the serpent is cut from the body, they believe. And Trump's program will work, and they will be in a position where they have to try to gaslight America with claims that it is a failure. They need the distraction, much like a magician needs his "magic wand" to distract the audience from what his other hand is doing. "Big picture" stories are destined to fail.
So they are going to have to go after every little utterance of Trump it's all they have. And that will utterly exhaust them.
Good.
The White House Press Corps is bitterly complaining about how exhausting it is to cover Trump and how they are already worn out.
Here is what caught my eye on this:
"Julia Manchester, a national political reporter for the Hill, referred to the incoming president as "someone who thrives on unpredictability.”'
Uh, that's the whole point Julia.
Trump practices the principles advocated by Sun Tzu, the ancient chinese military philosopher. One of Sun Tzu's admonishions was to be unpredictable, to confuse an enemy commander by not doing what seems the logical course of action.
It works and Trump had to view the media as an enemy as that is how they behaved. So he is far away when they think he's near, active when they think he's passive, organized when they think he's confused. This made it difficult for the media to launch a coordinated attack on Trump over any issue; they didn't know where to fire their guns.
The "chaos" and "confusion" of Trump's administration is a feature, not a bug. And a very clever strategy. Anybody else would have been taken down by the media had they played the game as it has always been played.
Trump also believes in a Hegelian dialectic and uses competition between different staff members as a tool to drive productivity and creativity. He sets people against each-other and then skims off the cream that rises to the top. It's an effective strategy if a bit ruthless. Trump doesn't operate on the theory that you baby your underlings; he is there to do a job and he demands excellence from those under him. It's not MY management style, but then Trump made a billion dollars and I made peanuts so I can't argue with success.
But the media is used to politics as usual and cannot stand the fact Trump runs things quite differently.
Julie Manchester continues:
"Describing the aftermath of the November 5 election as something like "déjà vu” for the press corps, she said it was "right into the fire with this transition, with the Cabinet picks.”
"And I think overall, just outside of the press corps, the country itself was feeling burnt out,” Manchester added."
"And I think overall, just outside of the press corps, the country itself was feeling burnt out,” Manchester added."
Why so exhausted? Could it be because the press corpse, er, corp was desperately trying to undermine Mr. Trump all along and now is exhausted from the failed effort?
More from the article:
"While Meredith McGraw of Politico said that "no matter where Trump goes, what he does, there’s behind-the-scenes drama and intrigue,” she predicted that news publications are not going to jump on every single social media post from Trump like the last time around.
Instead, she said outlets will be focusing on being "bigger-picture about stories.”
Instead, she said outlets will be focusing on being "bigger-picture about stories.”
Trump used Twitter like a virtuoso, sending the media into a conniption with just a few carefully chosen "careless" words. So now they are vowing to not fall for it (I doubt they can stop themselves) and plan "big picture" stories meaning lies spun into whole narratives, like a kind of evil Hallmark Christmas tale for Trump haters. But she doesn't understand that they already did that and they cannot keep doing 'big picture" stories about Trump indefinitely. The need to destroy MAGA looms over everything they do and that can only happen if the head of the serpent is cut from the body, they believe. And Trump's program will work, and they will be in a position where they have to try to gaslight America with claims that it is a failure. They need the distraction, much like a magician needs his "magic wand" to distract the audience from what his other hand is doing. "Big picture" stories are destined to fail.
So they are going to have to go after every little utterance of Trump it's all they have. And that will utterly exhaust them.
Good.
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For sure, Trump has more energy than most people, and the media is used to covering a man whose day runs from what, 9:00 to 4:00? With two hours off for lunch?
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at December 02, 2024 12:50 AM (GbRjY)
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