Make Journalism Great Again: Trump Demands Reporters ‘Bring Honesty Back’

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  1. Somebody is bracing his flock for a test of faith.

  2. Probably one of the most egregious examples of journalisitc dishonesty in recent memory is their reporting Trump stated he intended to pull U.S. troops out of Syria in very short order, because ISIS had been defeated.

  3. Individual-1 demanding “honesty”??? I had to check the calendar to verify today isn’t April 1.

    Words fail.

  4. Behold Trump’s genius at controlling the national conversation and changing the subject. Won’t be one story on the shutdown for the whole rest of the week, probably. But seriously, folks, I remember as a kid reading about the boy who cried wolf and being very impressed by the ring of truth it had. Constant liars are eventually regarded as constant liars. You can’t rule as an authoritarian and deny reality without the threat of violence against dissidents, and we’re not there yet and we don’t look to arrive there any time soon. To me, who’s certainly a high-strung person, this just looks pathetic.

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