The big news of this week will be Trump’s award show. Amendment 1, the first of 10 amendments in
the Bill of Rights, written by our founding fathers, was surely the most
important and foremost element of our democracy based on the prominent placing
of this amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Freedom of speech and freedom of the press defines our country and are
essential to maintain our freedom in this country. These two freedoms separate our country from
that of authoritarian governments. Of
course, you know that! I’m simply
refreshing your memory to ready you for Trump’s self-lauded Fake News Awards he
says he will present on Wednesday.
TRUMP SAYS he
will present these awards to the “dishonest and corrupt media.” Trump’s done a lot of despicable things in
his short tenure as President, but his award show chips away at our democracy,
not to mention how much it damages our standing in the world.
TRUMP HAS
referred to the media as the “enemy of the people.” That was a term Joseph Stalin used to
describe the media in the Soviet Union and we know what happened to the media
there. Truth is, Trump probably isn’t
aware of Joseph Stalin and will probably say he invented that term concerning
the media. He has also called the media
the “opposition party” and his favorite, the “lying media.” There is no doubt that Trump is at war with
the press and as long as it is politically expedient for him, it will continue
to escalate.
I FEEL Trump does
not hate the media—he just wants their approval. Trump is attempting to bully the media to say
great things about him like his friends at FOX News. Trump has used, and sought
out press coverage his entire adult life. He is the most media savvy
President’s ever. While a businessman in New York City, he did everything
possible to be mentioned in the society pages.
He was his own publicist using the fake name of John Barron to call
media and brag about himself. He is
still his own publicist and uses the fake name of Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Without the fame given to him by the media,
he would not be where he is today. He
certainly wouldn’t be President without the nearly 24 hours a day campaign
coverage, and for that, the media only have themselves to blame. Before cable, the equal time rule would have
solved that problem.
FOR TRUMP to
thrive, he has to have an enemy. Trump
learned from his campaign that nothing gets his “base” supporters riled up
quicker than castigating the media. When
his rallies became boring, he would turn attention to the “lying media.” In one incident, his remarks were so
incendiary, some press people had to be escorted out for protection from the
crowd. So, as his poll numbers show even
some of his base supporters have had enough, he is grasping at ways to bring
them back.
TRUMP’S FAKE News
Award’s show will be watched and talked about for the entire week. It is sure to break Trump’s own record for
the most lies he has told in one sitting.
One thing we know for sure, FOX NEWS and the Monroe County Reporter will
not win one of these awards.
TA-DA, and the
big story last week-- Trump made another nasty, racist comment. I don’t think I have to repeat the comment
here in this family newspaper. Unless
you live under a rock, you know what kind of hole trump called these countries
and the context in which it was used. What I thought was, “The whole world is
thinking about that word at the same time.”
That’s probably never happened, and we must give Trump all the
credit. Instead of the “shot heard
around the world,” we’ll just call it the “s*** heard around the world.
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