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Take Trump's media poll!

It's from the campaign. But as Don pointed out, it's not real. They're not looking for feedback from the public. It's a fund-raising tool.

I took the poll. But because I will not contribute any money my answers will be trashed.
 
We have access to global media these days. They are all reporting that the President lies on this or that, report the bizarre things he says or does, the dysfunction in the White House, the EOs, the phone calls, etc. It's the duty of news organizations to report news. It doesn't matter if Joe the Plumber says and does these things, but it's news when it's the President of the most powerful country in the world.

They do an excellent job, for the most part, IMO. The NYT, Washington Post, CNN, NBC, The Hill, etc.

Political talk shows are different. They usually present the host's point of view, with guests from the opposing side sometimes. They don't report news. They discuss the biggest issues of the day, as they see it. The point of those shows is to discuss issues that their viewers want to hear about. Their viewers share the host's viewpoint. So if there were two big stories that day, the host may mainly cover only the issue that his viewers consider more important to them. The very nature of such programs means that the opposing side will not be covered equally.

There are a few talk shows that do try to present both sides, like Morning Joe, Hardball, etc. They have guests on for long discussions who belong to different political parties and take different positions.

The comedy shows focus on Trump, since he's President (and let's face it...he gives them lots of material). They always focus on whoever is the President, from Gerald Ford falling down a lot to G W Bush saying "it wouldn't be prudent" to George W Bush saying "you misunderestimate me" to Obama's koolcat way of speaking. But Trump is so much funnier than the others.

Well there you go and prove that no one should listen to anything you say.
 
Yes. I can see it now. He'll send out emails to the list, and ask them to forward. That's how the fake news used to circulate among the alt-right.

I remember one of the favorite fake news emails listed several supposedly large lawsuit recipients and how ridiculous the jury awards were and how fake the supposed injuries were. That email is in Snopes, since it was false. One clue was that there wasn't enough info in the email to identify the lawsuits (since they didn't exist), for anyone to verify.

Then there was the famous email about the lawsuit over the McDonald's hot coffee. That lawsuit was real, but the facts in the email were incomplete and some were false.

Last year there was one in this forum and elsewhere about the old litigation where Hillary Clinton defended a rapist. The email was full of false facts and misinformation...stuff just made up.
Well, this guy's a reality TV star; need I say more?
 
Most of the media in this country is a complete joke, but its scary that what they say affects him so badly he paid someone to put this on his site.

It's main purpose is fundraising, just so you know.
 
Bull****. He won the election. That's the major requirement. Sick of this whiny crap. The utter tantrums and stupid ideas you guys are spilling forth show the utter contempt you have for anyone that refuses to toe the PC line is so very telling. Its evidence of the liberal mantra: you will be made to care.

Trump does not care.
Trumpster tears lol.

What does winning have to do with being fit to be president? If you're gonna go on a temper tantrum, at least stay on topic. We always knew a incompetent, unfit fool had a chance at winning the office in this nation, it's just that this election proved what most never wanted to see a real world demonstration of.

Also, Trump cares. He cares a lot and I would even say he cares way too much. He's a thin-skinned fool that throws a fit when people don't fall for his bull**** -- which is most of America.

Where have you been for the last year? Trump doesn't care? A stupid comment with no basis in reality. Thanks for confirming what I suspected though.

Keep up the whiny crap, it's entertaining to see the mental gymnastics and delusions of Trump's voter base. :lamo
 
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Our President is looking for our input on how he handles the media. Ask and ye shall receive, I always say.

https://action.donaldjtrump.com/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/

The vast majority of the mainstream media almost uniformly falls in on the ideological Left, is (at this point, pretty much openly and unapologetically) in bed with Trump's opposition, and basically takes its marching orders from agenda-driven political and financial elites in the United States and abroad (like George Soros) who feel threatened by the Trump Administration's shaking up of the old status quo, and want him gone for that exact reason.

Trump is basically at war with these people. He knows it, and they know it. He has been at war with them ever since he announced his candidacy. The relentless way he's fought that war is a large part of why he was elected in the first place.

He really doesn't have much choice but to keep on fighting. To be fair, Trump fights his battles pretty well - equal parts vicious, hyberbolic, self-confident, and entertaining. He just has to be careful that he doesn't overplay his hand. The poll might serve the dual purpose of both being another "take that" against the media, while also trying to gauge whether or not the public is buying into his tactics.

Personally, I'm almost to the point of tuning all of this nonsense out entirely. I'm sick of Leftist media, and partisan Leftist crybabies, running around like Chicken Little, spewing blatantly skewed propaganda and misinformation, trying to make it look like the world is ending when it's clearly not. I also don't think it's possible to make a violin small enough (to say nothing of playing the thing) to express just how little sympathy I have for their supposed hardships dealing with Trump's aggressive behaviour towards them.

Seriously... Screw CNN, and screw MSNBC and the New York Times. They're biased, smug and self-righteous hacks, who make their living shilling half-truths and full lies, and they damn well know it.

However, I'm not exactly enamored with Trump's tactics in dressing them down over all of that either. The whole thing's just a lot of silly-assed drama over nothing. I'm tired of hearing about it.
 
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Our President is looking for our input on how he handles the media. Ask and ye shall receive, I always say.

https://action.donaldjtrump.com/mainstream-media-accountability-survey/

Trump is a moron. If all things were exactly the same, but he had state run media to prop him up and talk about how awesome he is, how great his presidency is, etc. the majority of the people would feel the same about him. That is how it always works in countries with state run media and propaganda. Trump's problem is not the media. The guy is a total dumbass.
 
Trumpster tears lol.

What does winning have to do with being fit to be president? If you're gonna go on a temper tantrum, at least stay on topic. We always knew a incompetent, unfit fool had a chance at winning the office in this nation, it's just that this election proved what most never wanted to see a real world demonstration of.

Also, Trump cares. He cares a lot and I would even say he cares way too much. He's a thin-skinned fool that throws a fit when people don't fall for his bull**** -- which is most of America.

Where have you been for the last year? Trump doesn't care? A stupid comment with no basis in reality. Thanks for confirming what I suspected though.

Keep up the whiny crap, it's entertaining to see the mental gymnastics and delusions of Trump's voter base. :lamo

You start with this:
He's totally unfit to be president.

I feel like the GOP members of congress know this, but are so desperate to keep their seats that they will "ride the wave" as best they can. Well, at least most of them.

and you think I am the one whining. Amazing. Yet, you wonder how you lost.
 
Are you kidding me?
Trump cries about every slight, real or imagined.
He cares so much that he seems sort of pathetic and needy.
Sad.

I think I understand. You guys are so used to a GOP politician that will ignore things and turn the other cheek, you aren't used to one that counterpunches. Meanwhile, he goes against every liberal policy and every effort the left puts forth yields little. Its frustrating for you. Get used to it.
 
I only have a couple of polls

they are my two middle fingers pointed straight at Trump :)

I'm sure he will be glad to be informed of this :2wave:
 
Attacking the Media is Trumps only option to combat what will inevitably destroy him, the guys is going to **** up even more than he has already, as is clear to anyone who hasn't got ultra violet partisan sunglasses on, he is woefully not prepared for this job and he has surrounded himself with people like Bannon who simply should not have their paws on even a Municipal government, let alone THE federal government.

There could be a lot more about him that could come up that we didn't learn during the campaign, there WILL be more scandals because there are in every White House... there's so much negativity surrounding him it's virtually the only way you could possibly combat it is to convince your followers it simply isn't true, and for those hardcore supporters on this site, it's clearly working.

There's a simple rule in Trumpland, reality don't matter.

Dunno about that.

If the media has a change of heart, decides to at least report the news more fairly, factually, and evenhanded, I don't think that there'd be a war with Trump.
 
If the media has a change of heart.

Trump is the one who needs a change of heart dude.

Whatever factual inaccuracies the media has reported on, they pail in comparison to the lies Trump has spewed.

The guy is a bull**** machine and you don't want to see it because he's on your side.
 
Trump is the one who needs a change of heart dude.

Whatever factual inaccuracies the media has reported on, they pail in comparison to the lies Trump has spewed.

The guy is a bull**** machine and you don't want to see it because he's on your side.

I understand your position. Trump is calling out the media on their bias, and it threatens you by changing how things have always been, and your preferred narratives / ideology.

It must be terrifying for you, these changes. Your world being turned upside down.

But rest assured, you and the nation will survive and thrive because of them.
 
Most of the media in this country is a complete joke, but its scary that what they say affects him so badly he paid someone to put this on his site.

The joke media supports him and enables him.
 
No, he's whining like a little girl that he doesn't get the adulation he thinks he deserves.

I understand why you may think that, and that's fine. Everyone has a right to their own opinion.

From my view, the leftist media hasn't been honest and factual in a very long time. Since one of the social contacts on which this Republic is based is a free (honest and factual) press to inform the electorate, not being so, I think violates that social contract, and represents a clear and present danger to the Republic itself.

I think it high time the media is called to account for their inherent leftist bias.
 
I understand why you may think that, and that's fine. Everyone has a right to their own opinion.

It's actually very obvious that's the reason why, I mean why in the world would the president for instance, lie about having the biggest electoral college win since Reagan, when that's so beyond false, the word false doesn't do it justice?

Because he's a gigantic baby that can't let go of the fact that he won the presidency, but he didn't win it overwhelmingly.

He can't handle the fact that not everyone is on board and that people still oppose him, he won and everyone should just give him adulation for it.

From my view, the leftist media hasn't been honest and factual in a very long time. Since one of the social contacts on which this Republic is based is a free (honest and factual) press to inform the electorate, not being so, I think violates that social contract, and represents a clear and present danger to the Republic itself..

Let's assume you are correct, then what of the President?

Is it not more dangerous that the President spouts falsehoods that are so demonstrably untrue as to boggle the imagination, and that he and his supporters just don't care?

Because things like the Electoral College win lie, are extremely troubling and it's not even that it's his biggest lie, but it gives you a very clear insight into how troubled his thought processes is.

At the end of the day you have Ultra Violet Partisan sunglasses on, any opposition to Trump is lies, he said so.
 
The Guardian and the BBC is now in Trump's corner?

I read a comment from Pravda, it sounds like the admiration they initially had for Trump is starting to wear thin. They are starting to view him as being mercurial, maybe even a bit unstable.
 
I read a comment from Pravda, it sounds like the admiration they initially had for Trump is starting to wear thin. They are starting to view him as being mercurial, maybe even a bit unstable.

They have their own problems, but expecting them(Russia) not to jump on is silly.
 
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