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Demovictory9

(32,323 posts)
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 07:08 PM Jul 2019

Journalist tracks Trump's tweets against Fox live broadcasts, he's just watching fox all waking hour

and dancing to their tune.

Trump’s latest live-tweeting binge shows how Fox News sets his agenda

https://www.vox.com/2019/7/30/20747141/trump-fox-news-presidency-elijah-cummings

President Donald Trump has access to some of the finest intelligence professionals in the world. He could seek policy guidance and input from the foremost experts. And yet time and time again, the Fox News and Fox Business channels end up setting his administration’s agenda.

A string of tweets he posted Monday night and Tuesday morning confirms it. Across a 14-hour span, Trump tweeted about topics as varied as his one-sided feud with the city of Baltimore and the Chinese economy — a confusing conglomeration, except that the tweetstorm clearly came in response to content he was watching on his favorite television stations.

These days, Trump — who claimed less than two years ago that “I don’t get to watch much television ... primarily because of documents” — isn’t even trying to hide it.

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Hannity’s show was immediately followed by Laura Ingraham’s — and Trump was watching that too. At 10:46 pm, the president posted a tweet amplifying commentary a woman that Fox News identified as a “Baltimore resident advocate” offered on Ingraham’s show defending Trump’s attacks on Baltimore.

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Trump got up on Tuesday and continued watching Fox. His first tweet of the day amplified a Fox & Friends news brief about two Somali refugees who were reportedly arrested in Arizona and have been accused of providing material support for ISIS. (One of the Democratic congresswomen of color Trump has been attacking, Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, is a Somali refugee.)

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Trump then changed the channel from Fox News to Fox Business — but not before he posted a tweet explicitly promoting Fox & Friends over its morning cable news competition on MSNBC.

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Over the next half-hour, Trump posted two tweets quoting and responding to interviews from Maria Bartiromo’s Fox Business show, including one in which Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) promoted an infrastructure bill.

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Trump seems to think Fox News is reality. It’s not.
It’s not hard to sync up the president’s tweets with the cable news he’s watching, and yet Trump wants Americans to believe he has his finger on the pulse of the country.
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Journalist tracks Trump's tweets against Fox live broadcasts, he's just watching fox all waking hour (Original Post) Demovictory9 Jul 2019 OP
Really weird empedocles Jul 2019 #1
No, he has his thumb up his ass. n/t rzemanfl Jul 2019 #2
An embarrassing disgrace Mike 03 Jul 2019 #3
There isn't much chance he does his own tweeting KentuckyWoman Jul 2019 #4
He doesn't know what he's doing and uses Fox as his crib sheet. nt chowder66 Jul 2019 #5
Need new John Oliver ads rickford66 Jul 2019 #6

Mike 03

(16,616 posts)
3. An embarrassing disgrace
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 07:16 PM
Jul 2019

See? There's no "strategy" to his attacks. He gets an emotion and he has to direct his anxiety through Twitter.

KentuckyWoman

(6,666 posts)
4. There isn't much chance he does his own tweeting
Tue Jul 30, 2019, 07:19 PM
Jul 2019

More likely some intern not paid to sit in an office all day and watch that swill and play keyboard warrior. The promise of a high paying job with the Syndicate once this farce is over. A job that of course never materializes.

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