While firing off his usual complaints about the media late Sunday night, President Donald Trump made an eyebrow-raising statement about news outlets that provide negative coverage of him.
“I watch and listen to the Fake News, CNN, MSDNC, ABC, NBC, CBS, some of FOX (desperately & foolishly pleading to be politically correct), the
@nytimes, & the @washingtonpost, and all I see is hatred of me at any cost,” Trump tweeted. “Don’t they understand that they are destroying themselves?”
It’s unclear what exactly the President was implying with the phrase “destroying themselves.” However, his comment could be seen as a threat given his previous vow to “destroy” Comcast’s “image” because it owns MSNBC (which Trump likes to refer to as “MSDNC”).
“Comcast, which owns NBC—actually NBC, I think, we call it MSDNC, right? MSDNC. But NBC I think is worse than CNN. I actually do,” Trump ranted during a campaign rally in South Carolina on February 28.
“And Comcast, a company that spends millions and millions of dollars on their image, I’ll do everything possible to destroy their image because they are terrible,” he added.
The MSM need to just stop covering those briefings live. There is no need since he lies all the time. Just tape them and then report and show clips of Fauci and maybe Pence.
Pipsqueak strongman.
The projection is strong with this one.
I’m old enough to remember when an American President threatening an large American company with destruction would be front page news…
Like literally everything else in this administration, Trump is addressing the pandemic as a PR problem. And the solution he has seized upon is to turn briefings into mini campaign rallies.
But its not working, largely because he isn’t receiving the adulation he craves so desperately at these pressers. In fact, he has to suffer questions instead of applause. And we are all seeing, he is getting angrier and angrier each day by that.
This will escalate. Trump DESPERATELY needs his ego fixes…right now in particular…but he has no where to go to receive them, which just creates a spiral. More airing of grievance met with more negative reviews, amping up the demand for an ego fix, not receiving it, therefore airing even more grievances…etc, etc.