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Botany

(77,053 posts)
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 06:21 PM Sep 2025

Broadcasters told not to air any booing of Donald Trump at US Open men's final.

US Open broadcasters have been asked not to show any negative crowd reactions to Donald Trump at Sunday’s men’s final.

The president is expected to attend the match between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz in New York, with security at Flushing Meadows being heightened in preparation.

The golden rule of Trump and Farage’s free speech crusade: they’re allowed to chat rubbish – you’re not

Trump used to be a regular visitor to the US Open but has not been to the tournament since 2015, a year before he was elected president for the first time, when he was booed by spectators.

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The message adds: “We ask all broadcasters to refrain from showing any disruptions or reactions in response to the president’s attendance in any capacity.”

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep/06/broadcasters-told-not-to-air-any-booing-of-donald-trump-at-us-open-mens-final

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News Flash: People don’t like that criminal child raping piece of shit who works for Putin
and became POTUS after a dirty election with Musk and Theil’s help.

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Broadcasters told not to air any booing of Donald Trump at US Open men's final. (Original Post) Botany Sep 2025 OP
Media better figure out that they have to stand up to the crybaby Attilatheblond Sep 2025 #1
Score another point for fascism johnnyfins Sep 2025 #29
and what will happen to them if they do? DBoon Sep 2025 #2
Trump will sue them, then threaten to yank their broadcast licenses if they don't settle for $100M. sop Sep 2025 #6
Yeah, ler's see how that does in court (n.t.) Oeditpus Rex Sep 2025 #28
Some will, Codifer Sep 2025 #47
The media better show the adverse crowd reaction LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2025 #3
I could hope word of this would get around far enough and loud enough slightlv Sep 2025 #20
Dictators demand fealty from the media...we'll see what ESPN does. spanone Sep 2025 #4
More ass kissing. greatauntoftriplets Sep 2025 #5
U.S. Open Orders Broadcasters to Censor Reactions to Trump LetMyPeopleVote Sep 2025 #7
"Sponsor guest"??? GopherGal Sep 2025 #8
Cracker Barrel Celerity Sep 2025 #9
The United States Tennis Association. Dr. T Sep 2025 #34
Rolex invited him to their box. coffeenap Sep 2025 #38
Kind of a bummer for me... GopherGal Sep 2025 #44
News agencies told not to air the news ! surfered Sep 2025 #10
Then they might as well not broadcast the match. choie Sep 2025 #11
C'mon New York choie Sep 2025 #12
How will they be able to announce the tennis match with Trump's balls in their mouth? dem4decades Sep 2025 #13
The winner of the match choie Sep 2025 #14
"...or else." JoseBalow Sep 2025 #15
Social media will be showing the actual response. Crowman2009 Sep 2025 #16
Yup. I hope many many of the attendees record and post loud booing on as many and varied Marie Marie Sep 2025 #45
At this point, why bother watching sports if the leagues/orgs are going to bow down to the orange assclown? Crowman2009 Sep 2025 #52
People should boycott both the media and the tournament. ananda Sep 2025 #17
Do you have any idea what people,paid for their tickets malaise Sep 2025 #24
Many in the crowd will record the crowd's reaction Dr. T Sep 2025 #18
Calling for Censorship? BidenRocks Sep 2025 #19
Going old school fascism. Botany Sep 2025 #21
Speaking of gasoline... Kid Berwyn Sep 2025 #39
In 1922 or 1923 Mussolini led his Fascist Black Shirts on a march on Rome where they seized the Nation's Botany Sep 2025 #41
Good luck with that malaise Sep 2025 #22
So US Open organizers are deciding what is news now, not the news organizations. Scrivener7 Sep 2025 #23
Ihopethe coaching teams for both Carlito and Jannik malaise Sep 2025 #32
And what happens to the 'broadcasters' Oeditpus Rex Sep 2025 #25
Attendees will certainly make and keep their own records of the event... 0rganism Sep 2025 #26
What about chants of "Epstein! Epstein! Epstein!" ? RockRaven Sep 2025 #27
Good idea Botany Sep 2025 #35
Let's keep an eye on this. I'm eager to see how docile and obedient the golf community is. calimary Sep 2025 #30
I Hope Somehow the BOOS Leak Out! Cha Sep 2025 #31
Poor little victim. Emile Sep 2025 #33
Snowflake. (n/t) thesquanderer Sep 2025 #37
I am awaiting the one network that finally decides to stop being a 'kissass'.. OldBaldy1701E Sep 2025 #36
How empty and weak do you have to be, to qualify as a republicon god? BoRaGard Sep 2025 #40
Well, that's not authoritarian, is it? kentuck Sep 2025 #42
That's not going to stop the journalist I watch Farmer-Rick Sep 2025 #43
I have a fantasy - yellow dahlia Sep 2025 #46
The audience should boo through the ENTIRE GAME. n/t Beartracks Sep 2025 #48
I knew it! calimary Sep 2025 #49
Trump's support is as real as his shooting. Botany Sep 2025 #50
Did they comply? SheltieLover Sep 2025 #51

DBoon

(24,892 posts)
2. and what will happen to them if they do?
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 06:23 PM
Sep 2025

pre-publication censorship has been determined to be unconstitutional. There is no exception for wounding Trump's fragile ego.

sop

(18,320 posts)
6. Trump will sue them, then threaten to yank their broadcast licenses if they don't settle for $100M.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 06:29 PM
Sep 2025

slightlv

(7,717 posts)
20. I could hope word of this would get around far enough and loud enough
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 08:25 PM
Sep 2025

that any "disruptions" would be too loud and large to ignore!

spanone

(141,351 posts)
4. Dictators demand fealty from the media...we'll see what ESPN does.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 06:26 PM
Sep 2025

That freedom of speech/expression thingy is just about gone in the good ole USA.

Let him have it, NEW YORK

LetMyPeopleVote

(178,495 posts)
7. U.S. Open Orders Broadcasters to Censor Reactions to Trump
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 06:33 PM
Sep 2025

trump is a sad and sick person who cannot stand criticism

https://www.benrothenberg.com/p/us-open-donald-trump-mens-final-attendance-visit-appearance-censorship-tv-booing-protest-jannik-sinner-carlos-alcaraz

The USTA’s plan to show Trump during the anthem, one of the noisiest and bombastic portions of Sunday’s events, is already an effective way to insulate Trump from likely booing. But the preemptive instructions outlined by the USTA in this email—asking broadcasters to censor and avoid any possible protest or negative crowd reaction to Trump for television audiences watching around the world—is further complicity in broadcasting Trump’s desired stagecraft for his first appearance at the U.S. Open in a decade.

The email also attached the USTA’s US Open social media policy, as well as “talking points and additional facts regarding the President’s visit.” The only attached “talking point,” however, was just a statement that “President Trump is planning to watch the US Open Men’s Singles Final from a suite as a sponsor guest.”

GopherGal

(2,879 posts)
8. "Sponsor guest"???
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 07:00 PM
Sep 2025

Who's the sponsor? At least have the gonads to let me know whom to boycott!

Or maybe the Epstein Survivors can provide some counter-programming for them to play instead of airing any crowd displeasure. That should appease the Gross Old Pedo, as he seems to enjoy hearing his name over and over again.

Dr. T

(603 posts)
34. The United States Tennis Association.
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 07:42 AM
Sep 2025

Time to take our rackets, and our patronage, to a new tennis organization.

Note: I'm not a tennis fan so that's easy for me to say. However, I am a fan of anyone who publicly boos Dimwit Donnie, especially where he can hear it.

GopherGal

(2,879 posts)
44. Kind of a bummer for me...
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 01:28 PM
Sep 2025

Rolex will not notice the sudden lack of my $0 annual patronage...

choie

(6,870 posts)
11. Then they might as well not broadcast the match.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 07:09 PM
Sep 2025

Assholes. We don't want to upset the dear dear leader.

choie

(6,870 posts)
14. The winner of the match
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 07:13 PM
Sep 2025

is going to have to give his trophy to trump so he can put it in "the Oval".

Crowman2009

(3,488 posts)
16. Social media will be showing the actual response.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 07:38 PM
Sep 2025

Another reason why old media is just a submissive bitch when it comes to the Orange Assclown.

Marie Marie

(11,172 posts)
45. Yup. I hope many many of the attendees record and post loud booing on as many and varied
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 01:56 PM
Sep 2025

platforms as possible. Now that he made it an issue, any of them will be sure to go viral. The Streisand Effect.

Crowman2009

(3,488 posts)
52. At this point, why bother watching sports if the leagues/orgs are going to bow down to the orange assclown?
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 09:50 PM
Sep 2025

malaise

(295,196 posts)
24. Do you have any idea what people,paid for their tickets
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 09:14 PM
Sep 2025

before discovering that this monster would be there

Botany

(77,053 posts)
21. Going old school fascism.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 08:55 PM
Sep 2025

Last edited Sun Sep 7, 2025, 10:44 AM - Edit history (1)



I don’t even recognize what America has become. Trump is a monster with out a doubt
who is a child rapist, has become President 2 times from massive cheating, and we have
a media complex owned by the right that covers up what is really happening in order to
protect the Oligarchs new power structure which uses the 30% + base of the of mouth
breathing racist, sexist, and anti intellectual American people to install Trump in order to
get even richer and to make crypto as the coin of the realm.

Kid Berwyn

(24,042 posts)
39. Speaking of gasoline...
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 09:14 AM
Sep 2025

Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler (USMC, ret.) once ran into some trouble for simply pointing out Mussolini was murderous behind the wheel.



Vanderbilt and Mussolini on a Murderous Joyride:

A Synecdoche for the US Relationship to Fascism


by Ben Norton

US Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler recounted, in a January 1931 speech, an incident in which American entrepreneur and “philanthropist” Cornelius Vanderbilt IV (of the same Vanderbilt family after which Vanderbilt University is named) was riding in a car with Benito Mussolini. In the anecdote, the Italian self-professed “Father of Fascism” (businessmen, as we shall see, tend to favor fascism), murdered a young child.

Historian Hans Schmidt explains, in his leading biography of Butler, Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History:


Butler related an anecdote about Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini while making the point that “mad-dog nations” could not be trusted to honor disarmament agreements. Butler recounted a story told him by an unnamed friend who had been taken by Mussolini for a high-speed automobile ride through the Italian countryside, in the course of which the dictator ran down a child and did not bother even to slow down: “My friend screamed as the child’s body was crushed under the wheels of the machine. Mussolini put a hand on my friend’s knee. ‘It was only one life,’ he told my friend. ‘What is one life in the affairs of a State.’"


The international media exploded in reaction to the story. Schmidt notes the Italian government denied that the incident ever took place; newspapers called Butler’s story “insolent and ridiculous.” Mussolini rejected the accusations (as violent, draconian dictators are wont to do when it benefits their reputation), claiming, “I have never taken an American on a motor-car trip around Italy, neither have I run over a child, man or woman.”

The US government, which, at this time, was rather friendly with the fascist Italian government, issued a formal apology for what it called “discourteous and unwarranted utterances by a commissioned officer of this government on active duty.” It went so far as to place Butler — the highest ranking official in the Marines and the most decorated Marine in his country’s history — under arrest. President Hoover even ordered a court martial for the general — the first time a US general had been court-martialed since 1862. That is how angry he was that Butler had spoken the truth about their iniquitous ally (the US has a long history of siding with inquitous allies).

Butler had stepped on some toes — some fascist-friendly ones.

Per usual, the public was much further to the left than its reactionary government. Butler’s speech “cast a shadow over the dictator’s heretofore almost immaculate image.” While Washington was trying to cover up the accusations, the average American was applauding Butler for his honesty (a most rare attribute for a member of the US government).

CONTINUES...

Internet Archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20170105191141/https://bennorton.com/vanderbilt-and-mussolini-on-a-murderous-joyride-a-synecdoche-for-the-us-relationship-to-fascism/

Original busted:

https://bennorton.com/vanderbilt-and-mussolini-on-a-murderous-joyride-a-synecdoche-for-the-us-relationship-to-fascism/

Kings think they’re better than everyone. Everyone with brains knows they’re not.

Botany

(77,053 posts)
41. In 1922 or 1923 Mussolini led his Fascist Black Shirts on a march on Rome where they seized the Nation's
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 10:54 AM
Sep 2025

Capitol and even though they were the minority took over the Italian Government. Just like
January 6th which when not prosecuted up to Trump was a warm up for the hell hole we now
find ourselves in. He has purged the FBI of anyone who thinks he broke the law in doing so,
expunged all federal documents about 150,000 police who were fired for abuse and law breaking
and no doubt some of those thug cops are now ICE agents.

malaise

(295,196 posts)
32. Ihopethe coaching teams for both Carlito and Jannik
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 06:03 AM
Sep 2025

instruct them to say they are there to win a final and have no say in who is in the crowd. Carlos’ naive response about good for the sport was not an informed position.

 

Oeditpus Rex

(43,094 posts)
25. And what happens to the 'broadcasters'
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 09:25 PM
Sep 2025

Last edited Sat Sep 6, 2025, 10:00 PM - Edit history (1)

if they ignore this ridiculous, fascist request?

0rganism

(25,574 posts)
26. Attendees will certainly make and keep their own records of the event...
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 09:31 PM
Sep 2025

The difference will become widely known, the editorial agenda made transparently clear. Another stupid maneuver from the F47 cohort and its collaborators. And no one will appear to care. The press has been weaponized against the public, no one can know how unpopular F47 is, or we might find out we're on common ground in the overwhelming majority and shit would change really quick.

calimary

(89,716 posts)
30. Let's keep an eye on this. I'm eager to see how docile and obedient the golf community is.
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 11:00 PM
Sep 2025

And how many of them may be starting to wake up.

Cha

(318,416 posts)
31. I Hope Somehow the BOOS Leak Out!
Sat Sep 6, 2025, 11:08 PM
Sep 2025

Fuck the Hiler fuckhead Neo Nazi Fucking Asshole.

OldBaldy1701E

(10,940 posts)
36. I am awaiting the one network that finally decides to stop being a 'kissass'..
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 08:30 AM
Sep 2025

And reply, "Sure, we won't show any of what you are saying when he arrives at the US open."

"HOWEVER, we will begin running everything we have that proves the guy is a liar, a cheat, a swindler, a rapist, and a slimeball, that is coming from every other place and organization, 24/7!"

They won't because they are too greedy and know that their 'greed over all' will not fly in a more Democratic society. They know they will continue to make money from that orange gibbon, so they will protect him irregardless of the damage to their own reputations.

Because that damage won't offset their incomes as long as we keep on listening to them.

BoRaGard

(7,591 posts)
40. How empty and weak do you have to be, to qualify as a republicon god?
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 09:35 AM
Sep 2025

Damn empty, damn weak, damn pathetic, damn lame.

This is what repubes think is "manly."

Farmer-Rick

(12,596 posts)
43. That's not going to stop the journalist I watch
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 01:28 PM
Sep 2025

Trump telling them not to record the boos is not going to stop all other honest reporters.

It will stop Fox and other right wing fake news.

But most everyone else is going to record it and spread it throughout all the social media outlets. And then all the right winger fake media will get less and less views. Even MAGOTs like to see the booing. To them it's a sign they are owning the Libs.

yellow dahlia

(5,572 posts)
46. I have a fantasy -
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 03:28 PM
Sep 2025

Anonymous could hack the Jumbotron and start broadcasting something - perhaps the real data about the election...

...or some other "smoking gun" truth...perhaps Epstein.

I was assuming the air space is being restricted...so no biplane pulling a banner with an appropriate message.



calimary

(89,716 posts)
49. I knew it!
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 05:25 PM
Sep 2025

Everybody’s instructed not to show anything negative. HA! They have to be told not to. How ‘bout that!

Botany

(77,053 posts)
50. Trump's support is as real as his shooting.
Sun Sep 7, 2025, 05:40 PM
Sep 2025

Now, 25 to 35% of Americans will support him because they like his isms … racism, sexism,
and anti intellectualism but the majority of Americans don’t like him. The oligarchs, the media,
Russia (storm 15-16), the fossil fuel industries, the GOP, and Christo Fascists prop him up.

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