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In response to the White House's recent trend of prohibiting cameras at press briefings, CNN on Friday said it sent its in-house Supreme Court sketch artist, Bill Hennessy, to Sean Spicer's latest press briefing.
CNN said it "equated press briefings to a Supreme Court argument -- an on-the-record event at which cameras are banned." The network argued sketches of the briefing had news value in the same way courtroom sketches do.
News organizations and the White House Correspondents' Association have protested the Trump administration's decision to scale back on-camera press briefings to unprecedented levels.
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(Score: 2) by stretch611 on Monday June 26 2017, @09:00AM (5 children)
I admit I hate Donald Trump. I don't trust him at all.
IMHO, he is trying to eliminate any type of real statements. He is tired of his press secretary saying one thing only to contradict it with his actions or words a day or two later. (e.g. the Comey firing was rife with this). He is thinking that the problem will go away if there are no recordings.
However, there is one huge flaw in his thinking... he thinks that as president that he can do what he wants to do. He doesn't want to believe that he is ultimately responsible for his actions. Regardless of what Trump thinks, the president needs to be accountable to the people of this nation. If he goes too far, even rank and file republicans will distance themselves from him, after all, they have elections to try to win in less than 18months.
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 26 2017, @09:09AM
(Score: 5, Insightful) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Monday June 26 2017, @10:41AM (3 children)
He has spent the last 80 years not feeling the consequences of his actions. Why start now?
Again, he has done what he wants to do all his life and nobody has ever told him no - or if they have, he has bullied them with all his considerable power and resources until he got his way.
The point about him misunderstanding the limits of the president's power and the checks and balances is a critical one. You have to try to see the world from his point of view. From Trump's standpoint, the presidency is HIS. And at face value he's obviously right, it is. But I've all-capped that possessive adjective there for a reason, because my definition of the word "his" and Trump's do not match up. To most people "the presidency is his" means "Trump is president, which means he has a bunch of interwoven duties and rights and priveleges held in place by a carefully-constructed web of checks and balances". But possession and ownership is the lense through which Trump sees the world. In the sentence above, To Trump it means it is HIS. He OWNS it. And if he owns something, he can do whatever the fuck he likes with it, checks and balances and responsibilities be damned.
Case in point: He funds a teen beauty pageant. He paid money for it, therefore it is his. By extension, everything and everyone in it is his. He owns it, he can do what he likes. Therefore, if he wants to wander in the girls' changing room and ogle the naked fourteen year olds [independent.co.uk], he can, because in his mind he bought it and he bought them and therefore he owns them and they are HIS to do what the fuck he wants with. Any basic legal rights those girls think they may have (like privacy) can be completely disregarded, because he paid money for this pageant, and in his mind his right of ownership obliterates all other rights.
He is now applying the same logic to your country: I bought / won the presidency. It's mine. By extension, the entire country is mine. I own it, I can do what the fuck I want with it. Some uppity judge or journalist tries to tell me I can't do this or that with MY country that I own, then they are interfering with MY shit and need to be slapped down with all the power at my disposal.
America, this is what you have elected.
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday June 26 2017, @10:26PM (2 children)
I'm only 71, not 80. Great number, great age. I don't think of myself as the oldest President ever, but as the most mature. Crooked Hillary, let me tell you, is 69. Which is a great number too. I had a great time when I was 69. I'll tell you about it if I see you in a locker room. Great experience. That's what I bring, great experience and maturity. I'm the most experienced and most mature President ever. I hosted WrestleMania IV at Trump Plaza, in Atlantic City. At the beautiful, beautiful Trump Plaza. And WrestleMania V. The only time WrestleMania has been in the same city two years in a row. The only time ever, in all history. Amazing! And I wrestled too. Great television. Can you imagine Crooked Hillary hosting WWE? What has she done? She lies, she cheats, she steals, she deletes EMAILS. She hacks the cyber, she rigs elections. She schlongs her opponents with her trickery. I wrestle them on television, fair and square. Believe me, nobody makes better television than #TrumpTV [twitter.com] #TRUMP2020 [twitter.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 27 2017, @12:29AM (1 child)
I feel sorry for Spicer. He has to clean up after the eliphant in the room.
(Score: 2) by GreatAuntAnesthesia on Tuesday June 27 2017, @09:05AM
Yeah. A fun game is to find pictures of KellyAnne Conway when she doesn't know she's being photographed. When she knows she's on camera she looks like the prototypical conservative american woman, all unflinching smiles and perfect makeup. Catch her off guard and she looks like some kind of haggard, hungover sith-lord. This is what the pressure of trying to reconcile Trump's tweets with reality can do to a person: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/10/kellyanne-conway-white-house-gaffes-three-strikes-but-not-yet-out [theguardian.com]