January 08, 2025
Watch 'em Squirm!
Timothy Birdnow
To illustrate how the media has absolutely no understanding of Donald Trump (and probably willfully so) one need but look at this Yahoo News article. In it the author takes everything Trump has said, no matter how tongue-in-cheek, seriously.
Here's the part that gets me:
And they really believe Trump isn't joking? Come on! If Trump were so crazy he wouldn't be where he is today.
It was observed during Trump's first term that the media took what he said literally all the time when normal Americans understood the joke.
Trump has been trolling Canada to get them to reverse some of their more aggregious policies and this seems to have touched a nerve - not with the average Canadian but with the Canadian ruling class and with the media. OF COURSE he's going to keep at this! He's having a great time punking them.
I have no doubt Trump would like to take back the Panama Canal, and possibly buy Greenland. He won't get Greenland I do not think (never say never) but he might get the canal out of the hands of the Chicoms anyway. But none of the rest of this will fly and Trump is no fool; he knows it. He's just having fun and at the same time doing what he does, namely being unpredictablle and making those he is negotiating with nervous.
I really don't know if the average news flunky understands this about Trump. I'm sure the top guys do but it serves their purposes to pretend to be obtuse.
Anyway it's fun watching them squirm.
To illustrate how the media has absolutely no understanding of Donald Trump (and probably willfully so) one need but look at this Yahoo News article. In it the author takes everything Trump has said, no matter how tongue-in-cheek, seriously.
Here's the part that gets me:
"Trump said he "liked” Carter "as a man” but was "strongly against” the former president’s decision to relinquish control.
Even as he flirted with a U.S. takeover of Canada, Trump weighed in with who he thinks should take over as the country’s next prime minister, with Justin Trudeau stepping aside, saying he suggested to hockey legend Wayne Gretzky that he should toss his hat into the ring.
In Trump’s retelling of the conversation between the two men, Gretzky replied by asking whether he’d be running for prime minister — or governor.
"Let’s make it governor,” Trump told him. "I like it better.”
Even as he flirted with a U.S. takeover of Canada, Trump weighed in with who he thinks should take over as the country’s next prime minister, with Justin Trudeau stepping aside, saying he suggested to hockey legend Wayne Gretzky that he should toss his hat into the ring.
In Trump’s retelling of the conversation between the two men, Gretzky replied by asking whether he’d be running for prime minister — or governor.
"Let’s make it governor,” Trump told him. "I like it better.”
And they really believe Trump isn't joking? Come on! If Trump were so crazy he wouldn't be where he is today.
It was observed during Trump's first term that the media took what he said literally all the time when normal Americans understood the joke.
Trump has been trolling Canada to get them to reverse some of their more aggregious policies and this seems to have touched a nerve - not with the average Canadian but with the Canadian ruling class and with the media. OF COURSE he's going to keep at this! He's having a great time punking them.
I have no doubt Trump would like to take back the Panama Canal, and possibly buy Greenland. He won't get Greenland I do not think (never say never) but he might get the canal out of the hands of the Chicoms anyway. But none of the rest of this will fly and Trump is no fool; he knows it. He's just having fun and at the same time doing what he does, namely being unpredictablle and making those he is negotiating with nervous.
I really don't know if the average news flunky understands this about Trump. I'm sure the top guys do but it serves their purposes to pretend to be obtuse.
Anyway it's fun watching them squirm.
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Bill O'Reilly, among others, are on record as saying that Trump's technique is to start an argument, or a negotiation, by "throwing a hand grenade." It throws everybody off balance and gets their attention, but is not necessarily intended to be truthful. The people he is used to dealing with understand this, even some of the politicians. Unfortunately, the monkeys in the media are way too dim-witted to know this.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at January 09, 2025 12:59 AM (Idemf)
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O'Reilley is right; that is Trump's negotiating technique. He read his Sun Tzu and knows such unpredictability is a huge advantage.
I suspect the core of the media, the people who set the tone, know this about Trump but refuse to admit it because they are trying to destroy Trump's image with the public. But the average media dufus has a low I.Q. and really doesn't get it.
I suspect the core of the media, the people who set the tone, know this about Trump but refuse to admit it because they are trying to destroy Trump's image with the public. But the average media dufus has a low I.Q. and really doesn't get it.
Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at January 09, 2025 10:08 AM (yF+hp)
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