'Hit job': Trump says government should 'come down hard' on 'illegal' activity by MSNBC

[Tom of Temecula]

Donald Trump on Tuesday evening suggested MSNBC should be hit with government force for its "illegal political activity" in the course of reporting news related to the ex-president. Without citing which interview or report caught his attention, the former president took to social media to slam the news network and its CEO.

"MSNBC (MSDNC) uses FREE government approved airwaves, and yet it is nothing but a 24 hour hit job on Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party for purposes of ELECTION INTERFERENCE," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Brian Robert’s, its Chairman and CEO, is a slimeball who has been able to get away with these constant attacks for years."

Trump further alleged that the network "is the world’s biggest political contribution to the Radical Left Democrats who, by the way, are destroying our Country." He then added:

"Our so-called 'government; should come down hard on them and make them pay for their illegal political activity," he said with a potentially ominous teaser but without elaboration. "Much more to come, watch!"

https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-msnbc/

[Moosepoop]

1. "Government approved airwaves"...

It's a cable program, no airwaves involved. What a dolt.

[2naSalit]

14. No shit!

Fucking imbecile.

[Bettie]

30. My first thought too

but, he's a moron, so we shouldn't expect anything rational from him.

[Hekate]

36. Also he thinks they are "free." It's cable -- all of us pay a fortune for it

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

46. I cut the Cord 17 years ago

I don't miss cable at all.

[Hekate]

47. In '79 I moved to a curve of the coastline where only one channel came across ...

People with houses had super-tall antennae on top to get the rest. Or cable. Unbeknownst to me, the cable to my rental house was “hamburgered in” as the company said when they disconnected it.

When I moved, the rental apartment building had cable. And so it has gone. All these years later we moved to a lovely neighborhood 50 miles South on the coastal curve — behind some foothills. So cable it is — especially since my husband works from home and his co-workers span the globe.

There’s a lot of people in the modern era for whom cable is a necessary utility. I wish it would be regulated as such.

[Cha]

49. I cut All Media in Nov 2002.. Never

Looked back.. that's how Bad I found it.

I know there's some good political shows like LO'D but I can see them on DU.

[Maru Kitteh]

53. Someone wrote that speech with the intellect of his lungfish followers in mind.

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. What a fucking child.

He truly believes it should be illegal to say mean things about him.

How tiny of a man.

[malaise]

10. But not only can he say anything about anyone -

he can also threaten the life of any critic and the lives of their fsmilies.
Lock up this monster please.

[triron]

33. Send him to Hell.

[2naSalit]

15. A SPOILED child...

One who has made use of all these egregious mannerisms for decades, it has always worked for him, until now.

He's such a (insert your favorite word for it) that he sees everyone else as the diet coke fetcher. How dare we see his flaws and point them out? Not only are we here to serve him, we OWE him everything he wants.

If only he'd fall into a coma until after the election and then die.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

19. Once again....A preoccupation about SIZE when it suits him

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He DESPISES the TRUTH when it comes to Social Media and the Press. Pun intended.

MSNBC has the cajones to tell the TRUTH. Dipshit has NOT attacked any of the Prime-time MSNBC hosts. They have eloquently given the facts, have guests who back up those facts, given truthful commentaries about the facts.
FACTS Dipshit DOES NOT want out, which is why he attacks when his own words are used against him. Words he tweeted on Social media or at his screed rallies.

I would say that MSNBC has the BEST hosts, guests, and political pundits of the cable news shows. While the events taking place can be downright depressing, I feel more educated about things.

[TSExile]

22. Yes!!

To me, the real stars of MSNBC are the analysts/contributors. Michael Steele, Barbara McQuade, Tim Miller, etc., etc., etc.

[Evolve Dammit]

42. agree 100%

[KS Toronado]

39. Plus if reelected

he plans on locking people up that said "mean things" about him, some even get the
firing squad like Mark Milley.

[Sal_NV]

3. Besides being a criminal/traitor, he's also a fucking idiot.

Free government approved airways?

Where does this guy come up with this shit?

[2naSalit]

16. His superior brain...

Said so himself.

Nobody knows as much as he does about everything so anticipate him whipping out his sharpie and fixing it.

[Sal_NV]

17. Ok, I got a good laugh with that one.

Well done.

[Haggard Celine]

51. He's creative when it comes to bashing people.

And the people he's talking to aren't going to fact-check him. They believe everything he says. He's in deep shit and he's trying to keep his followers riled up so they'll come to his rescue when he gets detained, either on house arrest or in an actual prison. He seriously wants to cause a civil war. He doesn't give a fuck about this country or even his own followers. No matter how much blood is shed, he intends to walk away from all of this with no negative consequences for himself.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. And MSNBC is part of NBC, the network that aired the game show that made him "famous."

[TSExile]

23. For that, I will always say...

Damn you, NBC!!!

[Takket]

5. If drumpf is old yeller, can we please skip to the end?

[whopis01]

6. This is the version with the happy ending. n/t

[liberalgunwilltravel]

7. We're close

He’s obviously rabid, so it shouldn’t be long now.

[Evolve Dammit]

43. perfectly stated!

[Tom of Temecula]

50. From Huffington Post in 2015

Trump: Just Another Old Yeller?

It seems that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump is always yelling about something or someone, getting into silly spats, asserting fuzzy facts, throwing temper tantrums, and evicting dissenters from his audience. It's all a re-run -- seen that, heard that.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-just-another-old-ye_b_8653160

Dude saw this coming.

[democrank]

8. Good thing Fox "News" is fair and balanced

because if it wasn’t, Trump would be threatening to yank their “government-approved airwaves” and what would Sean Hannity do then?

[Walleye]

31. I get Fox News Sunday morning opinion show on a broadcast channel

[slightlv]

35. FOX was the first thing I thought of...

how funny he doesn't denigrate and despise Fox for using those "government approved airways" to provide the flip side of the programming, eh?

Dumbo doesn't know which way is up and which way is down. But oh, he's the greatest intellect on any subject, right? /snark.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

9. More fascist bullshit n/t

[sarcasmo]

11. If MSNBC telling the truth is "illegal activity." Dictator Don is his dream.

[Emile]

12. He is such a victim.

[Wednesdays]

29. Also this.

[Emile]

32. LOL 🤣

[ecstatic]

13. I'm guessing it was the reporting on Lynn Cheney's new book

Honestly, that reporting kind of surprised me too. Specifically, the part about how empty g referred to him as the orange Jesus?! Wow! These GOP magaterrorists are great actors! Smh

[tanyev]

18. Yeah, that's why you got indicted, Donny.

[RAB910]

20. You would think 90+ criminal indictments is a good indicator of the government cracking down on illegal

activity

[TSExile]

24. those, and...

...found civilly liable of sexual abuse.

[RAB910]

25. and fraud

[Johonny]

21. Everything he says is stupid

He is a fucking moron.

[TSExile]

26. Remember SNL?

Wasn't he whining a few years ago about SNL always making fun of him? You know, the show that has parodied every single president going back to Gerald Ford? What a thin-skinned, overgrown toddler.

[doc03]

27. What about the hundreds of Clear Channel and Sinclair stations that actually do run nothing

but right-wing hate 24/7 on free government approved airwaves.

[BlueKota]

52. I just listened to the Keith Olbermann podcast

that someone posted the link to in another thread. He pointed out that if Trump thinks his potential administration has the power to come after MSNBC as a Democratic political contributer than the Biden administration would have the same
power to take down Fox as a Republican political contributer, right now. I also like that he added if Trump thinks Pence had the right as VP to overturn Biden's election in 2020, then wouldn't Harris have the right to overturn a potential Trump win in 2024?

This kind of basic logic never occurs to Republicans although I think they know unlike them Democrats follow constitutional laws, and wouldn't go against them.

[IronLionZion]

28. Dude should be checked for rabies

[Fiendish Thingy]

34. What a dope

No airwaves involved for a cable station, you moron.

[Martin68]

37. Trump is such a moron. Now he thinks it is illegal for the media to report on political activity?

I guess it doesn’t matter as long as his stupid followers believe him.

[LexVegas]

38. Does he mean M$NBComcast? That is all. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

40. Wait, is that the IRREFUTABLE evidence? I'm still waiting, did I miss it?

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

41. He's a master

At squeezing as much stupid into as few words as possible. He can do it in five words!

MSNBC (MSDNC) uses FREE government approved airwaves

1) Government-approved is hyphenated, Dotard.

2) MSNBC does *not* use government airwaves. They're on cable, which is a private sector broadcasting medium.

And then comes the pure projection--also stupid:

yet it is nothing but a 24 hour hit job on Donald J. Trump and the Republican Party for purposes of ELECTION INTERFERENCE

Telling the truth about your traitorous nonsense isn't a hit job. It's a news outlet reporting the truth about you. Don't like thetruth they report about you? Stop being a scumbag.

The only person and party practicing election interference would be you and the traitor thug party.

[SKKY]

44. Wait, I can get MSNBC over-the-air free???

DU, why didn't you guys let me know about that? So, I can stop paying Sling 45 bucks a month. Dope.

[louis-t]

45. If anyone thinks for one second he won't

have people in place to let him put his political enemies, or anyone one who criticizes him, in prison for life, they are not paying attention.

[bif]

48. Oh Shut the Fuck Up already!