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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJournalist tracks Trump's tweets against Fox live broadcasts, he's just watching fox all waking hour
and dancing to their tune.Trumps 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 administrations 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 dont get to watch much television ... primarily because of documents isnt even trying to hide it.
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Hannitys show was immediately followed by Laura Ingrahams 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 Ingrahams show defending Trumps 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 Bartiromos 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. Its not.
Its not hard to sync up the presidents tweets with the cable news hes 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
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empedocles
(15,751 posts)1. Really weird
rzemanfl
(29,540 posts)2. No, he has his thumb up his ass. n/t
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)3. An embarrassing disgrace
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
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.
chowder66
(9,011 posts)5. He doesn't know what he's doing and uses Fox as his crib sheet. nt
rickford66
(5,498 posts)6. Need new John Oliver ads