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White House blocks News Organizations From Press Briefing

Mac77 said:
Trump is a threat to the washington status quo

It definately isnt business as usual with him

Trump is putting a lot of liberals - and a few conservatives - out of their comfort zones

BUt I dont think he's going to end life as we know it on earth
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He very well could because he has no controls on him that other Presidents have had.

The difference between Trump and Bush 1 & 2..... and throw in Nixon and Ford and Reagan and Carter and Obama and Clinton and JFK and LBJ and every president for the last fifty plus years is that every single one of them was a man of governmental institutions who respected government and used government. Even Reagan served as Governor of our most populated state. In addition, all were dedicated to their political party and would never blow it up.

Trump strikes out on both counts.

He is not a creature of government and has no loyalty to party. Trump acting rashly and harming the nation or his party is a real possibility since he has no braking system that the others do. He is like a car with no speed limit and is built like a tank keeping his safe from the usual harm that would deter others.

As such he is irresponsible in addition to his extreme narcissism which many professionals believe is a mental illness.

The closest you could compare him to is Nixon because of his deep personality flaws and mental state. But again, Nixon was controlled by his dedication to government and the party - and Trump is devoid of both of those.

He is a true free agent... a wild card ... an egomaniacal narcissist who could endanger everyone in this country - if not the world if he explodes.
 
Mac77 said:
Trump is anything but a snowflake

If anything he's a golfball size chunk of hail landing on their heads
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And yet he needs his safe space from the heat of the media. Apparently his own aids even shield him from critical media. He is the flurry of snowflakes. As soft and shapeless as they come.
 
Year Zero said:
This level of attack against the freedom of the press in the United States is, to my knowledge, unprecedented in the history of your great country.
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What are you talking about?

Who is stopping the press from publishing whatever they want?
 
It is amazing how many in this thread have no idea what really happened here, but continue to post lies about it.
 
Mason66 said:
What do you mean 600 views?

Do you think that was a clip made specifically for You Tube?
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The YouTube video he posted only got less than 600 views. Yes it was probably cherry-picked by the person who posted it. Since ya know it was only 9 seconds long... The channel who posted it regularly links to racist nazis. Telling.
 
haymarket said:
The difference between Bush 1 & 2..... and throw in Nixon and Ford and Reagan and Carter and Obama and Clinton and JFK and LBJ and every president for the last fifty plus years is that every single one of them was a man of governmental institutions who respected government and used government. Even Reagan served as Governor of our most populated state. In addition, all were dedicated to their political party and would never blow it up.

Trump strikes out on both counts.

He is not a creature of government and has no loyalty to party. Trump acting rashly and harming the nation or his party is a real possibility since he has no braking system that the others do. He is like a car with no speed limit and is built like a tank keeping his safe from the usual harm that would deter others.

As such he is irresponsible in addition to his extreme narcissism which many professionals believe is a mental illness.

So any comparison between Trump and Bush is simply not valid. The closest you could compare him to is Nixon because of his deep personality flaws and mental state. But again, Nixon was controlled by his dedication to government and the party - and Trump is devoid of both of those.

He is a true free agent... a wild card ... an egomaniacal narcissist who could endanger everyone in this country - if not the world if he explodes.
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Calling him names is no more useful to the public discourse than was calling President Obama names or President Bush names.

And yes he is a wild card elected because our federal government is broken, out of control, and becoming dangerous in its incompetence and self serving motives. He may not be able to slow that down, much less reverse it, but he was our only hope to do so.

Those who voted for Donald John Trump have little or no respect left for a government that does not deserve our respect because it exists for its own benefit and not ours. We do have deep respect for our country and the institution of government as it was intended to be. And that is why we have a President Trump.
 
Mason66 said:
In this case who did POTUS ban?
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Not interested in a hair splitting exercise. You know exactly what I meant and who was involved. If you have a point, you can make it.
 
haymarket said:
TTrump acting rashly and harming the nation or his party is a real possibility since he has no braking system that the others do. He is like a car with no speed limit and is built like a tank keeping his safe from the usual harm that would deter others.
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What are you talking about? He has already destroyed the Republican Party. I'll have to see what happens in the 2020 race, but if Trump can maintain his power I am going to have to resign as a party member and as much as I hate to do it, register as Independent. *Shudders*. I really hope the party wises up and stages a coup, but at this point I think it unlikely due to their cowardice to stand up to him.
 
Mason66 said:
Can we also add that when this happened Trump was at CPAC and had nothing to do with it?

This was Spicer's decision who to invite.
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I see, so with Trump, the buck stops at some underling's desk. Dear Leader cannot be wrong, he can only be wronged!
 
Mason66 said:
It is amazing how many in this thread have no idea what really happened here, but continue to post lies about it.
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OK point to the "lies."

I think we all understand the simple facts of the story. You're just insisting on splitting hairs that other news outlets, such as the WSJ and Fox, haven't needed to do because they recognize the act for what it was.
 
Mason66 said:
Define the word banned in this case.
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Do you want the definition of "is" as well? You guys will go through any mental gymnastics and word games to excuse trumps actions. Pathetic on your part
 
JasperL said:
But that's really not been the result - what's happened is a collapse in the legitimacy of the press, and that has been intentional on the part of Trump and now the WH. We don't have to guess about it - the polls show it. It would be one thing for you to acknowledge that and support it as necessary, but you're pretending that something else is happening or minimizing it - "it's just politics."
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The weeks after the election were full of opinion columns intoning the sacred duty of the press to not allow DJT to be "normalized." So be it. They chose to be political players and now they are.
 
JasperL said:
You're not being objective at all on this. We've seen a collapse, and it's been in response to a deliberate and sustained PR campaign that continues as we speak, by the WH and the POTUS, and that has produced the intended result.
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Of course it's a deliberate and sustained PR campaign. It's the natural response to deliberate and sustained press hostility.
 
ModerateGOP said:
What are you talking about? He has already destroyed the Republican Party. I'll have to see what happens in the 2020 race, but if Trump can maintain his power I am going to have to resign as a party member and as much as I hate to do it, register as Independent. *Shudders*. I really hope the party wises up and stages a coup, but at this point I think it unlikely due to their cowardice to stand up to him.
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We can only hope he will destroy the GOP..... or they destroy him. But it has not happened yet.
 
haymarket said:
I do NOT believe that for a minute.
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Then I suggest you haven't been paying attention. Or your partisanship stands in the way of seeing it.
 
ModerateGOP said:
The YouTube video he posted only got less than 600 views. Yes it was probably cherry-picked by the person who posted it. Since ya know it was only 9 seconds long... The channel who posted it regularly links to racist nazis. Telling.
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The point is is that it was on the news channel first and they have many more than 600 viewers, I assume.

Life does not begin and end on views from You Tube.
 
JasperL said:
Not interested in a hair splitting exercise. You know exactly what I meant and who was involved. If you have a point, you can make it.
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Yes I do, but you don't apparently, since nobody was banned and the POTUS didn't do it.
 
JasperL said:
I see, so with Trump, the buck stops at some underling's desk. Dear Leader cannot be wrong, he can only be wronged!
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Did you not understand my post?
 
JasperL said:
OK point to the "lies."

I think we all understand the simple facts of the story. You're just insisting on splitting hairs that other news outlets, such as the WSJ and Fox, haven't needed to do because they recognize the act for what it was.
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Lies.

CNN was banned from the press room
The was a briefing in the press room
President Trump banned CNN from anything

There are many more coming from posters here.
 
Mason66 said:
The point is is that it was on the news channel first and they have many more than 600 viewers, I assume.

Life does not begin and end on views from You Tube.
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If it was some strong evidence that CNN was in the tank for Hillary why doesn't it have more views? Oh maybe because it's only 9 freaking seconds long. Are you actually defending a 9 second long clips?
 
Praxas said:
Do you want the definition of "is" as well? You guys will go through any mental gymnastics and word games to excuse trumps actions. Pathetic on your part
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I accept the fact that you do not know what banned means.

Not invited does not equal banned.
 
haymarket said:
We can only hope he will destroy the GOP..... or they destroy him. But it has not happened yet.
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Believe me, you don't want him to destroy the GOP. What he's turning it into is much worse.
 
ModerateGOP said:
If it was some strong evidence that CNN was in the tank for Hillary why doesn't it have more views? Oh maybe because it's only 9 freaking seconds long. Are you actually defending a 9 second long clips?
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Again read my comment. I don't give a **** about You Tube views.
 
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