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workinclasszero

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Thu Sep 28, 2017, 10:54 AM Sep 2017

Trump suckers media with his stand or kneel tweets to divert attention from train-wreck presidency

Master of Distraction: How Trump suckers the media with his ‘stand or kneel’ tweets to divert attention from his train-wreck presidency
Arun Gupta 26 SEP 2017 AT 23:41 ET

You would think by now the mainstream media would have figured out how Trump operates.

Last week the White House dumpster fire was going nuclear. Puerto Rico was on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe “with little help in sight.” The right’s latest healthcare gambit, which would strip “at least 21 million” Americans of healthcare, was collapsing. Trump’s pick in the Alabama Senate special election was set to lose to a religious fundamentalist who makes the Taliban look moderate. To top it off, Trump was careening toward an actual nuclear war with North Korea one insult and a tweet at a time.

Cue the classic Trump misdirection. To change the conversation, he unleashed a fusillade of tweets attacking professional football players who have been protesting during the national anthem.

https://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/master-of-distraction-how-trump-suckers-the-media-with-his-stand-or-kneel-tweets-to-divert-attention-from-his-train-wreck-presidency/
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Trump suckers media with his stand or kneel tweets to divert attention from train-wreck presidency (Original Post) workinclasszero Sep 2017 OP
Cue the media chasing the shiny object to exhaustion. Sneederbunk Sep 2017 #1
It is so obvious isn't it? workinclasszero Sep 2017 #2
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