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Trump tries to air "fake news" 2020 campaign ad; is rejected by all major TV networks
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Angelus Errare
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Lara Trump? Absolutely not, she's as clueless as the average American.
Republican politicians? Absolutely.
gutter_trash
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Imperfected
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Well...
First of all, he's probably operating under the assumption that no one will vote for him/against him on the basis of his actual job performance, which is arguably the most coherent thought he's had so far if true. If people did vote based on performance, Washington would be less of a pig sty.
Second, the Presidential campaign is the closest he's ever come to actually winning. Okay, sure, it's basically on a technicality, and he has to lie to himself about the popular vote to even feel good about that, but it's a lot closer to actual victory than any of his other public endeavors. He's a successful Presidential campaigner and a failing President. He needs to start campaigning again to heal his bruised ego. Notice that he constantly tries to turn the narrative back to how well he did in the campaign, even months on after it's ceased to matter?
I mean, if you're looking for valid, rational human reasons I don't have those, but as far as "Trump Logic"(tm) goes, it's more or less to be expected.
EatinOlives
Member
His "maybe change libel laws?" manic tweet makes it clear it's at least on his mind.
Lord Frieza
Member
Colbert strikes back?
Sidewinder
Member
Keep on winning 'merica!
Shame the propaganda piece didn't mention the 59 missiles he sent to Iraq (or was it Syria??1) with a boner or the mofo bomb, I'm the sure the audience would've loved some explosions on the screen and in their pants!
US political ads were already so fing weird to me, but this coming from the actual POTUS is hilariously bad.
Shame the propaganda piece didn't mention the 59 missiles he sent to Iraq (or was it Syria??1) with a boner or the mofo bomb, I'm the sure the audience would've loved some explosions on the screen and in their pants!
US political ads were already so fing weird to me, but this coming from the actual POTUS is hilariously bad.
HP_Wuvcraft
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Ever since he said he'd lock up Hillary. And we just shrugged it off.
I mean I'm kinda on trumps side in this even tho generally I'm not aren't laws super accomodating on this as far as libel in the us ?
My understanding is unless you can prove the person said something PROVABLY wrong you can run with it ?
Edit or is this protected by private networks right to choose what they show ?
This whole thing is very wonky legally in the us . European countries are much more stringent on it
My understanding is unless you can prove the person said something PROVABLY wrong you can run with it ?
Edit or is this protected by private networks right to choose what they show ?
This whole thing is very wonky legally in the us . European countries are much more stringent on it
apocalidiot
Banned
Dude, his whole campaign/since he has been elected has been "literal propaganda". This guy is a fuckhead and this is nothing different
literal attemp at fascist "state broadcast".
multitude of reasons
1) he's a fascist
2) it lets him hold re-election rallies and shuffle money around from doing them more easily as a candidate than a sitting president
3) probably thinks of it as an "alpha" move where he immediately claims himself as the nominee for 2020 to try and ward off any primary challenge.
multitude of reasons
1) he's a fascist
2) it lets him hold re-election rallies and shuffle money around from doing them more easily as a candidate than a sitting president
3) probably thinks of it as an "alpha" move where he immediately claims himself as the nominee for 2020 to try and ward off any primary challenge.
crimsondynamics
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Seriously, the way I see it is, if the Trump administration can twist reality into their own agenda and call everyone else out for being fake media, then the "fake media" (which is the real, accurate media) has every right to reject spreading Trump's fake media.
Yeah, it's kind of twisted and loopy but this is sadly where we are today.
Trump wishes he could be even a fraction of the person that Dickerson is.
beau_beaumont
Member
Man, that ad is comically bad. It seems like a cheap parody or something, and the fact that it was made by the sitting POTUS makes it kind of terrifying. It's shameless propaganda. It would be home airing on state-sponsored TV in North Korea. Luckily that sort of shit doesn't fly here in the States.
Lara Trump's comments are even more comical. Freedom of the press is literally mentioned in the text of the First Amendment, and for this very reason. Did Trump and his cronies ever passed basic civics in, what, fourth grade? It would actually be funny if he wasn't sitting on the nuclear codes.
This world man. I can't even.
Lara Trump's comments are even more comical. Freedom of the press is literally mentioned in the text of the First Amendment, and for this very reason. Did Trump and his cronies ever passed basic civics in, what, fourth grade? It would actually be funny if he wasn't sitting on the nuclear codes.
This world man. I can't even.
I'm going to pay you $1 to walk down the street telling everyone how dumb you are, you have to accept otherwise you are infringing on my free speech.
That is what Trump is arguing right now, except with television networks.
Lord Frieza
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Who 'shrugged it off?' That was something tons of people commented on as being fascist in nature lol. He walked it back almost immediately after winning, though, even though he's referenced how she should be in jail a few times in reference to Comey and the FBI.
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I will never understand how Fox people can actually sleep at night. They must be fully aware they're 100% supporting, enabling, and being the face of a semi-fascist, pro-censoring regime at this point. It's fucking crazy all the people at the place seriously go the "I'm only doing my job/"following orders" actual nazi excuse instead of running the fuck away from this.
The US is crazy. Absolutely crazy.
edit holy shit I didn't even see the mandatory Fox thing yet.
What the fuck
The US is crazy. Absolutely crazy.
edit holy shit I didn't even see the mandatory Fox thing yet.
What the fuck
brochiller
Member
When all your money can't buy you what you want and you then have to cry about something something 1st amendment rights.
Sounds about right, I'm in the Air Force and every TV on base is on Faux.
So freaking annoying.
I don't think it's frightening. The fact the networks have the ability to reject garbage like this, and point out how full of shit he is is actually kinda reassuring.
Aaron Strife
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Fuck you
I see what you're saying but it has ALL to do with free speech. They're free to air the ads they want and they decided to not air that one. It is a strong representation of free speech.
Take it away and they would've been forced to air it.
Seductivpancakes
Member
Wouldn't surprise me if he tries to launch a state run news network.
Totally, golfing is hard work
It's funny watching the mental gymnastics when you try to get these people to actually explain what he's done. "At least he's tryyyyyying! Obama! Obstruction! Deeeeep State! rabble rabble rabble." The goal posts move to another state.
Pretty much. Just days before his 100 days in office, the nightly news was interviewing Trump supporters about how they'd rate Trump's performance. One idiot said that not only was Trump fighting against the Democrats, but also against some Republicans, and yet he was still getting stuff done, which was more than any other President ever.
Darryl M R
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I'm sure there was a situation where trolls in Russia were messaging each other trying to figure out who was behind a certain post or propaganda push. Hilariously enough was probably some random guy in Trumpland.
Neuromancer
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I liked how one of the items under his accomplishments was having a tax plan.
Host Samurai
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Because winning the election was his biggest achievement. He can't stop talking about it.
Uh, I think the means the ad and agenda are frightening.
Woo-Fu
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Why would he worry about his job performance when from his point of view he is doing a great job?
This video is 18 minutes, do you know how many funny animal videos I could watch in that time?
I swear, all of this is because he saw Erdoğan gain a ton of power in Turkey, so Trump wants the same thing to happen in America.
nailbombxx
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hmm i wonder why
How About No
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this is actually an apt comparison lol
"Would you like to know more?"
Ah kk I see the difference now . Makes sense they refuse then .
ShadowKingpin
Member
Good! Keep denying him airtime.
They know what it means