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Miles Archer

(24,303 posts)
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 06:21 PM Oct 2025

CNN's "reporting" on the East Wing demolition is whatever is several levels below "PATHETIC."

TAG LINE on the HOME PAGE ( https://www.cnn.com/ )

"The president is getting the ballroom he's always wanted, but the scenes this week fly in the face of how the project was publicly billed."

I'm sorry, I know I'm maybe being anal about this, but HOW is "The president is getting the ballroom he's always wanted" part of the headline? Is that "GLASS HALF EMPTY / GLASS HALF FULL" thinking?

"The president destroyed the East WIng, but he's getting what he wanted?"

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CNN's "reporting" on the East Wing demolition is whatever is several levels below "PATHETIC." (Original Post) Miles Archer Oct 2025 OP
Now they've normalized Trump bulldozing the White House's East Wing without any prior authorization, sop Oct 2025 #1
CNN lovingly licking diarrhea from the gold toilet Blue Owl Oct 2025 #2
Perhaps someone needs to re-edit his plane pooping ai slop MagickMuffin Oct 2025 #6
Sounds accurate-- it is what the demented POS wants and it was a lie. Think most viewers got it. Silent Type Oct 2025 #3
I wouldn't expect a whole lot different from the M$M. nt Wednesdays Oct 2025 #4
Why would you think 'the ballroom he's always wanted' Oeditpus Rex Oct 2025 #5

sop

(19,288 posts)
1. Now they've normalized Trump bulldozing the White House's East Wing without any prior authorization,
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 06:34 PM
Oct 2025

just like they did with everyother insane thing he's done.

MagickMuffin

(18,362 posts)
6. Perhaps someone needs to re-edit his plane pooping ai slop
Thu Oct 23, 2025, 12:27 AM
Oct 2025


Instead of pooping on the protesters, he could be shown pooping on the fake news media. It would be more appropriate of his feelings.


 

Silent Type

(12,412 posts)
3. Sounds accurate-- it is what the demented POS wants and it was a lie. Think most viewers got it.
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 08:12 PM
Oct 2025
 

Oeditpus Rex

(43,094 posts)
5. Why would you think 'the ballroom he's always wanted'
Wed Oct 22, 2025, 11:52 PM
Oct 2025

is meant as something positive for The Felon? It sounds to me like they're saying, "Kings usually get what they want, and Drumpf wants so much to be a king that he acts like one."

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