He's Moving Like The Fastest Animal on the Planet...
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I watched the events that unfolded yesterday with amazement.
Trump is literally DROWNING the Fake News Media in access and transparency, and they have no idea whatsoever how to effectively respond to that.
Because we don’t have a real press in this country - at least, not so far as the big money mainstream media goes.
What we have had instead for many decades now are propaganda outlets owned by oligarchs that have been cleverly disguised as ‘news media’.
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What do I mean when I say Trump is **drowning** them in unprecedented access to the White House, to himself, as he sits there and answers questions, sometimes for hours.
Here’s a post I made on X.com the other day discussing this key Trump strategy for getting his message out while confounding the Fake News’ ability to spin, cleverly edit what he’s saying, and misdirect the public:
Trump's spent almost 2 hours today taking questions from reporters.
All unscripted.
After 4 years of Biden's staff carefully stage-managing everything, Trump is literally drowning these pricks with historical levels of access.
They don't know what to do.
The idea prior to this administration was to use limited access to sell narratives to the public.
"Trump won't take questions about x, y or z, so it appears he is trying to...." and then they play a 10 second sound bite that will often be edited or incomplete.
We got a ton of this shit during his first term.
Now? He will literally sit there for 2 hours and take their questions and rob them of their ability to frame the news in a way that allows them to edit his answers and sell bullshit narratives.
He's actually MAKING THE JOB OF SPINNING WHAT HE'S DOING far harder for them with this access.
And it's brilliant.
They can't cleverly edit SHIT because the country is invested in this and watching it unfold in real time.
THIS IS HOW YOU BEAT THE FAKE NEWS MACHINE TO DEATH: unlimited access and transparency.
To draw out that thought: Cleverly editing video of what Trump supposedly is saying/doing from the White House will only successfully work with a disengaged citizenry who only sees the brief edited soundbites on news programs.
By opening up the Oval Office to hours-long press conferences, which millions of the public are tuning in live to watch, as the President launches historical and groundbreaking initiatives, trade deals, Executive Orders, and visits with foreign leaders [and which are all being recorded in full and placed on media outlets like Rumble and YouTube], Trump has left no room for the Fake News to maneuver and follow their old tried and true out-of-context playbook.
When the public wasn’t paying attention and couldn’t tune in to these long press conferences where Trump was doing amazing things that keep them engaged and holding their attention, that gave the mainstream media the wiggle room to do clever edits, spin his statements out of context, and so on.
He’s not even GIVING them the option of doing that now.
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