Donald Trump was irritated with Fox News on Wednesday.
Specifically, he accused the network of “letting millions of GREAT people down!”, in a series of shrill tweets that included an extremely unfortunate reference to Fox “working for us”. He meant “working” in the sense that some of Fox’s recent interviews and polls might not be helping his reelection chances, but it came across as implying that the network is literally employed by the administration, which has been true at various intervals.
But the president got over it by Wednesday, or at least he got over it enough to chat with Brian Kilmeade in a characteristically absurd radio “interview”, which essentially amounted to Trump ranting at warp-speed for a solid 22 minutes. Here’s the opening bit about China, which grabbed a few headlines on Thursday:
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As you can see, Kilmeade kicked things off by lobbing a number of accusations at Beijing in a painfully transparent attempt to put the president in a good mood.
Asked by Kilmeade how Trump can’t justify calling President Xi a “friend” (as Trump is wont to do most of the time, although, as we saw last week, that can change on days when circumstances conspire to push the president over the edge), he explained that we need to see how things work out in the end.
Trump did respond to Kilmeade’s prompt on farm states, though. The president accused the Chinese of “playing a vicious game” by targeting US agriculture, but persisted in the claim that farmers are actually better off now on what amounts to government welfare than they were before, when they enjoyed access to a massive foreign market for their crops. That’s not the first time Trump has insisted that government handouts are preferable to self-reliance, a contention that is laughably at odds with Republican economic orthodoxy.
The two went on to discuss a variety of topics including Afghanistan, but the highlight came towards the end when Kilmeade asked Trump about the tweets mentioned above.
Specifically, he reminded the president that prior to the election, Trump was at least somewhat open to debate and understood that even Fox occasionally tries to keep up appearances (if only for the sake of plausible deniability), by featuring dissenting voices. In other words, Kilmeade asked Trump if the White House is arguing that the network should ban anyone from saying anything negative about the president at all.
“So I don’t understand, if someone comes on and they’re critical of one thing about you, it never used to bother you, now yesterday I read those tweets”, Kilmeade stammered. “What’s bothering you about it, because our channel prides itself on getting everybody in so you don’t have to flip around”, he continued. “What’s changed”?
Trump responded by touting “Sean” and “Laura” and “Tucker” as examples of anchors who do a great job, and then suggested that because CNN never takes his side, Fox shouldn’t even endeavor to feature anything other than coverage that’s friendly to the White House.
Ultimately, Kilmeade gave up and pivoted to Elizabeth Warren’s crowd sizes, which Trump insists the media is exaggerating to make him look bad. Do watch the clip to the end and notice how abruptly Kilmeade throws in the towel to talk about Warren, realizing that trying to engage Trump is an exercise in abject futility.
In making that pivot and abandoning his feeble attempt to reason with the president, Kilmeade left little doubt about the extent to which Fox isn’t prepared to press the issue with Trump.
There can be no dissent if the network expects to stay on the right side of the presidential Twitter feed.
Orangehole “responded by touting “Sean” and “Laura” and “Tucker” as examples of anchors who do a great job…”
And therein oozes and festers the electoral hamartia for Scummo: despite the (consummately deserved) outraged , ad hominem, and epithetical pillories that are counter-punched against his literal perfidy and clinically sociopathic/psychopathic shitshow of deformed humanity – the factual substance of them is arrantly inarguable.
Crazy Little Thumbs is a dictatorial mirror-whoring megalomaniac who has no intercourse with normal adult reality. He is a monstrous bastard of a Freudian Terrible Two’s constant id tantrum and an intellectually retarded dialectical idiot with an entire half of reasoning missing.
There is absolutely no doubt that Scummo is a reified version of The Wicked Queen in Snow White – and that his entire life is governed by the mirror. It’s actually shocking to really think about it. He cannot discern the difference between agitprop-for-millions guttersnipes and journalism in any credible form. Propaganda is the de facto reality of all tyrants.
LIke all fairytale monstrosities, however, they are dispatched in the end by their own filthy psychological Ouroboros – cannibalizing themselves with each ostensible “win.” Independents; “give him a shot” mugwumps who hated (in retrospect dismal candidate/campain) Hillary, and non-megachurch cult “traditional” Republicans are fleeing. 2018 wasn’t an aberration and I would bet my life that the midwest states – much bluer after that wave election – will not be taken for granted this election cycle.
Nice turn of phrase.
“megalomaniac who has no intercourse” – ‘other than fucking the American People’ I would add.
The bad news of course, is that it’s HIGHLY LIKELY this jackass WILL be re-elected. Dems have shown ZERO ability to excite or inspire voters with THEIR candidates – back in ’16 and certainly in ’20.
Get ready for 4 more yrs, when it will get even worse.