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Communications Chaos
Inside The White House
An enormous communications problem is boiling over inside the Trump White House. You get 3 guesses to figure out the name of the head honcho behind the problem — and the first 2 don’t count!
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Yes, Donald Trump is perhaps one of the worst communicators to ever walk the face of the earth. Â The man is known to frequently say one thing then do another, or to create “alternative facts” AKA his version of the truth. So, it’s no wonder that the people who work for him are about ready to pull their hair out or contemplate jumping off a bridge.
Case in point is the man in charge of White House communications:Â Press Secretary Sean Spicer. Spicey has the unenviable task of having to go before the press and attempt to make logical sense of “The Donald’s” disjointed daily thoughts. Unfortunately, Trump frequently F’s up the administration’s official message hours later by tweeting the very opposite of what Spicer already told the press, however, that is the madness of Donald Trump.
Here are the communications issues currently facing the Trump White House:
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SO LONG, SPICER
Recent word out of Washington is that Trump is ready to replace Sean Spicer with someone who can better deliver his “message.” However, with Trump’s thinking and message so garbled, only God could do a better job and He’s not interested in the gig!
Donald Trump actually believes that his message is perfect and sensible and that the only problem is with the person delivering it — NOT HIM. Too bad no one in the Trump circle has the balls to tell him the truth (psst: It’s YOU, Donald!).
Good luck, WH Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Â If you get the job (as expected), you’re going to need all the patience and the luck you can get.
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RIP PRESS CONFERENCES
In an attempt to control the media and deliver HIS words HIS way (without any audio or visual proof of what was said), Donald Trump has put an end to the traditional press briefing. Believing that he is the best person to deliver his own message, Trump has downgraded the press to a level of near nothingness.
Effective immediately, reporters are barred from recording video or audio footage during White House press briefings. Trump would prefer to tell the press what he wants “off the cuff” by tweeting info late at night. He’d also prefer to put an end to the embarrassing televised sound bites during press briefings that make him appear to be an imbecile.
“Make no mistake about what we are all witnessing,” said CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta. “This is a WH that is stonewalling the news media. Hiding behind no camera/no audio gaggles.” Acosta went on to describe White House press briefings as becoming “kind of useless,” and questioned why journalists should bother attending if they are not allowed to record on camera or with audio.
“It just feels like we’re slowly but surely being dragged into what is a new normal in this country where the President of the United States is allowed to insulate himself from answering hard questions,” Acosta said. He added that every American should be concerned that Donald Trump is purposely trying to keep information from them and is attempting to make it all seem normal.
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IS HE, OR ISN’T HE?
When Trump hired Jay Sekulow as a member of his personal legal team, he was supposedly hiring one of the best attorneys in the business. However, Sekulow’s blatant contradictions and absolute meltdown on live television this week has only added to the Trump communications chaos.
During an interview with Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday,” Sekulow seemed unable to decide if Donald Trump is or isn’t under investigation. He originally denied that Trump was under investigation, but later reversed that affirmation, saying that “he’s being investigated for taking the action that the attorney general and deputy attorney general recommended him to take.”
“You’ve now said that he is being investigated,” Wallace said. “You just said, sir, you just said that he’s being investigated.”
“Let me be crystal clear so you completely understand, we have not received, nor are we aware of any investigation of the president of the United States. Period,” Sekulow responded.
When Wallace pressed him on the extremely obvious contradictions in his statements and even offered to review the tape of the live interview, Sekulow insisted that he had been clear and even pulled a “Donald Trump” by shifting the blame that the fault and miscommunication was not with him.
“I do not appreciate you putting words in my mouth when I’ve been crystal clear that the president is not and has not been under investigation,” Sekulow said, completely ignoring the fact that Donald Trump himself tweeted that he is under investigation.
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Check out a video snippet of the interview below. It is a perfect representation of the current state of the Trump White House.
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You got that right,Trump is the problem. He doesn't know up from down on any given day or what he is ever talking about. So his supposed message is always changing and he blames all his people for not explaining it right. The man is just stupid and I don't know why anybody would even want to work for him. Also that video of the lawyer on Fox is a comedy. Everybody heard the man say investigation but he still tried to pretend he didn't. So crazy
It's all true. Everything DJ pointed out is true, from start to finish.
Trump is an idiot. A dangerous idiot. But an idiot nonetheless. Full stop.
And yet, it amazes me at just how easily the *King of Chaos, Confusion and Contradictions* (my name for him) continues to play cable news media…at will….24/7.
CNN and MSNBC have the long knives out for Trump…perhaps driven by moreso by guilt for having provided that dangerous man with approx $2 BILLION dollars worth of FREE media over 18 months during the primaries and then general election}. But those two networks, in particular, still can't seem to kick the habit. Every little thing Trump says and does, is covered and sensationalized ad nauseum.
And some of the stuff that flows from the mouths of some program hosts and their guests who make all kinds of ridicules claims. For example- a few days ago I watched a CNN "analyst state emphatically that she had just spoken with "a source" who is "close to Trump" and "knows how Trump's brain works."
Now mind you, Trump doesn't even know how his brain works but somehow some "source" knows..?!!! And that's just one example of the foolishness that floods our new airwaves these days. DJ provided a great example with the video of Trump's attorney babbling nonsense.
I recognize that chasing higher ratings and increasing profits are the sole business model for today's cable news industry. It's just disturbing to watch such a twisted and symbiotic relationship play out in living color, for all the world to see and to the detriment of Our country.
Meanwhile, print journalism is where most of the real investigative news work is happening (The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times and other credible news resources). Cable news, for the most part, simply informs viewers of what print journalism has published.
Please don't misunderstand me. There are a few folks on cable news who know their stuff.. But I would posit that most of them don't have clue about the subject matter they try to discuss. They're just better at trying to fake-the-funk (if you will). While Trump routinely blurts out absolute nonsense all the time. He doesn't care.
Oh and one more thing…….
I've also noticed how cable news has rendered the alert "Breaking News" almost meaningless.
Okay I'm done.
Off topic for just a moment to speak about a Communication-related problem the DNC and the Dem leadership has. I'll try to keep it short.
Re: the Dem candidate's loss in a Republic district in GA last night to his Republican opponent in a "Special election" run-off last night
IMO, the Dems made two critical errors with that race:
First: The notion that a totally UNknown fella, Jon Ossoff – a Dem and political novice at that – who resides somewhere OUTSIDE the Republican district he was competing in (he couldn't even caste a vote for himself)…was going to go into that Repub district and "flip it" was always a pipe dream, as in "crack-pipe."
Second: Then the DNC and Dem leadership let cable news media shape the entire narrative and predictably cable news (CNN and MSNBC) quickly turned a "Special" election" into a "National" competition. The media needed to create drama and with the notable exception of Dem. Sen. Corey Booker who at least made an attempt to REJECT that narrative, the majority of Dems either sat back and kept their mouths shut OR worse, they fell for the okey-doke. Hook.Line. and Sinker.
Dem donors pumped $25-30 million dollars into that "very slim-to-NO chance" race believing that Ossoff could win it. he lost by 3% points.
Also: The Dem candidate who ran in South Carolina, Archie Parnell…he lost by about 4 % points. But the difference in his case is he received literally NO financial support from the DNC or deep-pockets" Dem donors for his campaign.
Simply put: If these races are ANY indication of the DNC and Dem leadership Communicating to their base, a "fighting spirit" and a 'real plan" to win back the House in 2018 …well I'd say, the Repubs have absolutely NOTHING to worry about.
Maybe now crooked Hillary uppity Obama and the democrats know their place and learned their lesson.
Maybe now crooked Hillary uppity Obama and the democrats know their place and learned their lesson. […]
Racists. bigots, misogynists and "low IQ" folks are nothing if not predictable.
And trust…I do I understand. Those kinds of folks tend to lash out in such predictable ways because incredibly successful people like Pres. Obama and Hillary Clinton represent what those folks FEAR the most; An educated Black Man who is Self-Confident, has a stellar temperament and exudes Class…and an educated Woman (Black or White) who is Self-Confident and not afraid to stand her ground.
The quandary for Racists. bigots, misogynists and "low IQ" folks is that America won't be going back to the Not so "good OLD days." Trending demographics ARE what they ARE.
You cannot stop Time. You cannot stop progress. You can only Hate and destroy yourself in your Hate.
So be it.