Trump says he's revoking press credentials for The Washington Post

[Night Watchman]

Source: The Hill

Donald Trump on Monday said he is revoking the press credentials of The Washington Post, one of the nation’s largest newspapers, over its “dishonest reporting.”

The presumptive Republican presidential nominee made the announcement in a brief post on Facebook Monday afternoon.

"Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phony and dishonest Washington Post,” Trump wrote.

In an earlier message, Trump slammed the Post for its coverage of his comments Monday morning about the mass shooting in Orlando, Fla., on Sunday. In those remarks, Trump questioned President Obama's committment to fighting Islamic terrorism.

Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/283318-trump-revoking-press-credentials-for-the-washington-post

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First, they came for the Post...

[Gomez163]

1. How is this not like fascism???

[dbackjon]

8. It is fascism

[SCantiGOP]

36. First priority of any tyrant

is to muzzle the free press.

[muriel_volestrangler]

29. More Cartmanesque than fascist, I'd say

Though Cartman does have his fascist side:

[smirkymonkey]

60. That's exactly who he's like!

Except Cartman is smarter and more articulate.

[liberalnarb]

45. It's blatant fascism right out in the open. He has not even attempted to hide it.

[pangaia]

2. In return, I suggest ALL MEDIA stop reporting on him.

Total blackout..

[enough]

12. He's far too lucrative for them to do that. (nt)

[Android3.14]

46. This.

[liberalnarb]

47. He's a goldmine, they'll never stop.

[Judi Lynn]

52. It appears corporate media no longer (if ever it did) would consider making a moral choice.

Makes you wonder if anything ever was more important to then than profit.

This isn't what people are seeking when they hope to get current information.

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Completely out of his fucking mind

[Mike Nelson]

4. Keep digging, Donald...

...cry baby. Thinking of himself, now.

[NewJeffCT]

5. Maybe the alleged billionaire Trump can start his own newspaper?

Pravda is already taken. Maybe Trumpravda?

[GeorgeGist]

50. tronc sound like it was made for him.

Changing Tribune to tronc Brings Up the Age Old Question ‘When and How Should Companies Change Their Names?’

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ira-kalb/changing-tribune-to-tronc_b_10431830.html

[Princess Turandot]

51. His son-in-law already publishes the New York Observer nt

[Hortensis]

6. Go, tRump!

I'd feel sorry for his staff, but they sooo deserve everything they get. And much more.

Thanks for the laugh, Night Watchman. I looked and this is the statement WaPo was reporting on:

“Look, we're led by a man that either is not tough, not smart, or he's got something else in mind. And the something else in mind — you know, people can't believe it,” the Post quoted Trump as saying on Fox News Monday morning. “People cannot, they cannot believe that President Obama is acting the way he acts and can't even mention the words ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’ There’s something going on. It’s inconceivable. There’s something going on.”

Trump, who called on Obama to resign for not using the term “radical Islam” in his address to the nation Sunday, explained to Fox News, “He doesn’t get it or he gets it better than anybody understands — it’s one or the other, and either one is unacceptable.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/trump-washington-post-credentials-224281#ixzz4BUrsBpjf

Almost makes me wish there were a hell and his staff found they'd signed on to spend eternity with him.

[maryellen99]

7. Cleveland is going to be a train wreck nt

[mrmpa]

9. This is just one step toward his............

wanting to be a dictator. It also shows his narcissism blinding him. What a fucking bastard.

Also the Post doesn't need to physically see him, in order to report on him.

[Gomez163]

10. Every day he brings out a new abomination

[rurallib]

11. wait til he sees what happens when they tell the real truth

he's just going to shit himself I tell ya.

[MFM008]

13. If I was the WP

id make it my job to just destroy him over everything
He is trying to discredit the entire media.

[Botany]

14. How dare the Washington Post quote Donald Trump?

"Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phony and dishonest Washington Post,” Trump wrote.

No Don they quoted you word for word.


http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141486869

[bluestateguy]

15. I wish Obama had done this years ago to Fox News

I'll just leave it at that.

[dawn frenzy adams]

33. President Obama did do it.

Early in his presidency in 2009, President Obama did try to suspend Fox News from the Washington Press Core. However, Jake Tapper, who was with ABC at the time was not going to have it. So Tapper went screaming like a banshee all over the corporate media. He got the major conglomerates to issue the President an ultimatum. If Fox News had to go, they would no longer cover the White House. Too bad the President didn't take them up on it. Every time I see that smug mug of Tappper's, I get angry.

[AntiBank]

39. he should called Tapper's bluff. Fox is a cesspool

[truthisfreedom]

16. Because this is the NEW "presidential!"

A litigious president! He stamps his widdow foot and squeals "It's not fair! You're not fair! You can't enter my golden tree fort!"

[Wellstone ruled]

17. Darn,going to have to make a major Popcorn and

refreshments. The Guy really does not get it. What a sicko. Guess he only wants Fake Noise and Brietbart to cover his stupidity.

[Stuart G]

19. Great Idea for popcorn

.....

and the more he does this, the deeper hole he is digging himself....and he doesn't even know it....

[Wellstone ruled]

26. Just checked the Garage,

found six shovels I'am going to send the Guy. Along with a operators manual.

[bearssoapbox]

18. Oooohhhh. The Oompa Loompa Facist is mad.

Poor baby.

[Iggo]

20. You ever know someone who didn't want to quit and so did everything they could to get fired?

Mm-hmm.

Yup.

[IrishEyes]

21. He is crazy.

I think that he believes that if he revokes the Washington Post's press credential that they can't write about him. I don't think he understands how freedom of the press works.

[roamer65]

22. ...and Gary Johnson's poll numbers just keep rising.

C'mon Mittens...endorse him!

[Jim__]

23. I'm beginning to believe the people who say trump doesn't want to be the nominee.

Could he actually be so stupid as to do this if he wanted the nomination?

[underpants]

24. The Washington Post is too tough on him???

The Post reporters barely leave the building.

He's going to end up with Breitbart and FOX news only at his events.

[yallerdawg]

25. Trump is the gift that keeps on giving!

Whoever got him to run and gave him a plan for victory - what a political genius!

[louis-t]

27. Ohhh, president Tiny Fingers decides who's dishonest?

[bucolic_frolic]

28. Is this his feud with Bezos?

Freedom of the Press will go first, and this is the start of it

[Paula Sims]

30. Is THIS Donnie's Gary Heart moment?

Does the press finally give him the finger and say 'watch thus' or do they cower in fear?

[Feeling the Bern]

48. Cower in fear. Our press is a damn joke.

[Kingofalldems]

31. Don't worry, his boy will come and defend him soon.

[Doctor Jack]

32. The reactions from Washington Post reporters

“It’s the FAILING Washington Post,” tweeted Dave Weigel, highlighting an adjective Trump frequently lobs at organizations he’s attacking. “Get it right!”


“He's just banning us till he can figure out what's going on,” Ben Terris tweeted, mocking the billionaire’s proposal to temporary ban Muslims from entering the country until the U.S. can figure out what’s going on. “RIP experiences like talking to Trump on the phone for 30 minutes about whether he cheated at golf,” Terris said in a follow-up.


Karen Tumulty joked that, if elected president, Trump would “build a wall around 13th and K Streets.


“Looks like the ban has been broadened to also include The Washington Post,” added Jose A. DelReal.

[eastwestdem]

34. Oh Donald... nt

[tabasco]

35. Another step on the road to blissful utopia!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

37. Get him to revoke all credentials so just his fawning FReaky website followers get interviews. . nt

[mcar]

38. An old saying from us PR professionals

You don't pick a fight with someone who buys their ink by the barrel.

[AntiBank]

40. he thinks it is Hollywood "no such thing as bad press"

he is unhinged, a pure threat to stability

[mcar]

41. He is all of that

And he's going to lose in dramatic fashion, IMO.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

49. Not only that, but if he buys it from Amazon, he'll get free shipping on

orders of over $49.99.

[TNNurse]

42. Is the GOP really going to tolerate this

violation of the First Amendment or are they only actually dedicated to the second???

[JohnnyRingo]

43. Never make enemies with someone who who buys ink by the barrel.

If the post can't cover his campaign in person, they'll just write what they think is going on.

This is an example of "good news".

[olddad56]

44. what did they do, tell the truth or something.

[Enrique]

53. a badge of honor

more prestigious than a Pulitzer Prize, having Trump revoke your press creds.

[yellowcanine]

54. How Putin of him.

[whistler162]

58. Yup... he is cheesy and probably fried!

[davekriss]

55. This guy is an out-and-out lunatic!

[Shoonra]

56. When Obama revoked Fox News ....

When Obama revoked the Fox News TV presence at one televised White House presidential press conference -- after some Really Vile provocation from that network, which had openly contributed money to the Republican campaign fund -- the rest of the White House press corps practically revolted and threatened to boycott future presidential press conferences unless Fox was restored. And so Fox was restored. And Fox didn't learn a lesson but Obama did.

Maybe the rest of the press bus should boycott Trump unless and until the WaPo is restored. Trump should learn, as every other candidate already does, that publicity is breath of life to a campaign. Let him suffocate for a few days without press coverage and see if he developes a learning curve.

[dhol82]

63. Wonder what would have happened

If Obama had stood his ground and said FU? Would they have all slunk back after not being in the scrum?
Would have been interesting to see the actual outcome.

[Calista241]

57. EH. they'll publish a puff piece on Donald and be back in no time. n/t

[hamsterjill]

59. Wah! Wah!! Wah!!!

Someone ELSE is being unfair to The Donald? His response is to throw a temper tantrum.

His supporters won't see that defining "unfair" is always up to The Donald and to his advantage. He signed the Pledge but wasn't going to support it if it was "unfair". Jude Curiel is being "unfair"...and so on and so on.

[smirkymonkey]

61. What an immature little coward!

Wahhhh! People are being mean to meeeeeeee!

[yellowcanine]

62. Let's see if Paul Ryan has any balls and restores press freedom at the Convention.