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[QUOTE]WASHINGTON — When [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/donald-trump"]President Trump[/URL] meets with aides to discuss policy or prepare for a speech, he may ask about the pros and cons of a new proposal. He may inquire about its possible effect. He may explore the best way to frame his case.
But there is one thing he almost never does. “He very seldom asks how other presidents did this,” said John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff.
Mr. Trump is the 45th president of the United States, but he has spent much of his first year in office defying the conventions and norms established by the previous 44, and transforming the presidency in ways that were once unimaginable.
Under Mr. Trump, it has become a blunt instrument to advance personal, policy and political goals. He has revolutionized the way presidents deal with the world beyond 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, dispensing with the carefully modulated messaging of past chief executives in favor of no-holds-barred, crystal-breaking, us-against-them, damn-the-consequences blasts borne out of gut and grievance.
He has [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/11/us/politics/trump-organization-business-conflicts.html"]kept a business[/URL] on the side; attacked the F.B.I., C.I.A. and other [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/us/politics/trump-fbi.html"]institutions[/URL] he oversees; threatened to use his power against rivals; and waged war against [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/us/politics/president-trump-escalates-criticism-of-mitch-mcconnell-as-majority-leader.html"]members[/URL] of his [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/us/politics/freedom-caucus-donald-trump.html"]own[/URL] [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/us/politics/house-vote-harvey-aid-debt-ceiling.html"]party[/URL] and even his [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/us/politics/trump-interview-sessions-russia.html"]own[/URL] [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/26/us/politics/jeff-sessions-trump-mccabe.html"]cabinet[/URL]. He [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/us/politics/james-comey-fired-fbi.html"]fired the man[/URL] investigating his campaign and has not ruled out firing the one who took over. He has appealed to base instincts on [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/us/politics/trump-charlottesville-white-nationalists.html"]race[/URL], [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/29/us/politics/trump-anti-muslim-videos-jayda-fransen.html"]religion[/URL] and [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/12/us/politics/trump-blames-democrats-for-false-accusations-from-women.html"]gender[/URL] as no president has in generations. And he has [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/world/asia/north-korea-un-sanctions-nuclear-missile-united-nations.html"]rattled the nuclear saber[/URL] more bombastically than it has been since the days of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.[/QUOTE]
transforming the presidency in ways that were once unimaginable?
No no no, that sounds ominous as hell, he's really leading the charge into senselessness.
Trump reinvented the presidency in the same way that a violent disembowelment counts as operating on someone.
what the fuck is up with nyt's headlines lately? considering most people don't read the article this could be misconstrued as pro trump at face value
[QUOTE=LZTYBRN;53021130]what the fuck is up with nyt's headlines lately? considering most people don't read the article this could be misconstrued as pro trump at face value[/QUOTE]
it's called non biased news reporting
[QUOTE=Nihilnoid;53021159]it's called non biased news reporting[/QUOTE]
or arbritary centrism
He didn't reinvent so much as dust off the GOP from the 1920s
I think he is doing ok. It has been great seeing the media lose their minds on a daily basis. Grasping at things not even Alex Jones would think are credible. He is doing things his way, keeping election promises and not taking any shit. That is what got him elected. Looking forward to the next 3-7 years.
I think the NY Times, as a whole, is trying to stay on Trump's good side for, ultimately, ad revenue via distribution sales. A legitimized form of clickbait, as it were.
The author of the article in the OP is [I]not[/I] either of the authors in the (really bad) NYT piece these tweets are talking about, but I think this headline is an editorial decision to neutralize and blandify their reporting so as to be more palateable and attractive to the right (compare to the Washington Post's stark black [B]Democracy Dies in Darkness[/B] header overhaul). It's an indirect extension of access journalism.
[media]https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/947234633766326272[/media]
[media]https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/947235473549938699[/media]
BTW the two people responsible for the tweet'd Kushner story, as well as the "we let Trump ramble on without challenging or correcting his lies and printed them without annotation" story, are writing a book about the President/White House and so their book publisher needs them to continue to have access to the WH. If they are critical of the administration, that access can be taken from them, and so they're complicit in avoiding unflattering coverage because they have an outside interest in remaining in Trump's favour. [I]Nice.[/I]
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[QUOTE=Sgt.Sgt;53021303]It has been great seeing the media lose their minds on a daily basis.[/QUOTE]
Glad to see that triggering the left and the media is seen as a valuable accomplishment by President Trump in 2017. More valuable than the massive infrastructure plan he promised and has generally forgotten about, I guess.
[QUOTE=Sgt.Sgt;53021303]He is doing things his way, [B]keeping election promises[/B] and not taking any shit. That is what got him elected. Looking forward to the next 3-7 years.[/QUOTE]
Heeheehee. Wasn't he going to fix the deficit? He just signed a bill that's going to add to it by more than $1.5 trillion.
He said he didn't want to cut anyone's health care or welfare, before he was elected. The repeal of the individual mandate of the ACA is going to raise premiums an estimated 34% this year, and at one point he was insisting the Senate pass a raw ACA repeal with no replacement, a move that would've caused around 10% of the country to lose health insurance coverage over the next decade.
I'm not going to ask you to give me examples of promises he's keeping, but one of his promises was to drain the swamp and the swamp has merely gotten deeper and wider and it's threatening to drown poor people of all political persuasions.
But maybe you can answer this question from [URL="https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1589459"]the thread about Trump signing the tax cuts into law[/URL], now:
[QUOTE=elixwhitetail;53004207][QUOTE=Sgt.Sgt;53003381]Great glad it's now law. This is fantastic news. Good job Mr. President.[/QUOTE]
Fantastic news how? Please explain.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Sgt.Sgt;53021303]I think he is doing ok. It has been great seeing the media lose their minds on a daily basis. Grasping at things not even Alex Jones would think are credible. He is doing things his way, keeping election promises and not taking any shit. That is what got him elected. Looking forward to the next 3-7 years.[/QUOTE]
It's kind of mental how a hurricane hit puerto rico, killing hundreds of people and it's not even a blip on some people's radar.
[QUOTE=Lambeth;53021335]It's kind of mental how a hurricane hit puerto rico, killing hundreds of people and it's not even a blip on some people's radar.[/QUOTE]
When you live in the right-wing echo chamber, Puerto Rico is already recovering just fine, most of the island has power, safe drinking water is re-established across almost all of the island, the death toll was miniscule, and they're debt-mooching latinos anyway so fuck it. Trump threw them some paper towels, they looked fine.
Meanwhile, back in reality, Puerto Rico continues to be a humanitarian crisis and natural disaster zone with something only vaguely resembling working infrastructure. Accurate casualty counts may see the death toll go from the current official figures in single digits to over a thousand.
Hey, Puerto Rico, wanna be a province and get help fixing everything up? We've got practice with handling multiple official languages and we're multicultural already. We're also about to nationally legalize recreational weed. Love, Canadians who have very cold faces right now and who'd love to have a warm place to spend the winter without needing a passport.
[QUOTE=Sgt.Sgt;53021303]I think he is doing ok. It has been great seeing the media lose their minds on a daily basis. Grasping at things not even Alex Jones would think are credible. He is doing things his way, keeping election promises and not taking any shit. That is what got him elected. Looking forward to the next 3-7 years.[/QUOTE]
can you be at least a smidge objective? This reads like a form letter. "Keep his promises" with what? The infastructure bill? The ACA repeal? The beautiful healthcare bill that would cover everybody AND lower rates? His promise not to touch medicare or Social security which his tax bill absolutely does and did?
And he's exploded against litterally every slight against him "hes not taking any shit" hes taking all the shit and throwing a 7 year old hissy fit because of it.
[QUOTE=Sgt.Sgt;53021303]I think he is doing ok. It has been great seeing the media lose their minds on a daily basis. Grasping at things not even Alex Jones would think are credible. He is doing things his way, keeping election promises and not taking any shit. That is what got him elected. Looking forward to the next 3-7 years.[/QUOTE]
Fool.
[QUOTE=Sgt.Sgt;53021303]I think he is doing ok. It has been great seeing the media lose their minds on a daily basis. Grasping at things not even Alex Jones would think are credible. He is doing things his way, keeping election promises and not taking any shit. That is what got him elected. Looking forward to the next 3-7 years.[/QUOTE]
You traded one form of media for another, you're no less manipulated than the people you so smugly deride
[QUOTE=Sgt.Sgt;53021303]I think he is doing ok. It has been great seeing the media lose their minds on a daily basis. Grasping at things not even Alex Jones would think are credible. He is doing things his way, keeping election promises and not taking any shit. That is what got him elected. Looking forward to the next 3-7 years.[/QUOTE]
Anyone who believes this is more unhinged than the door to the Kramer cosplay contest.
[QUOTE=Sgt.Sgt;53021303]I think he is doing ok. It has been great seeing the media lose their minds on a daily basis. Grasping at things not even Alex Jones would think are credible. He is doing things his way, keeping election promises and not taking any shit. That is what got him elected. Looking forward to the next 3-7 years.[/QUOTE]
You're quite literally off the mark on 99% of this statement.
He has kept one real promise and frankly, you'll be paying for that in the long run in every way imaginable.
I do not know what possesses people to just not care about the facts of their reality, and completely substitute them with their own.
[QUOTE=Sgt.Sgt;53021303]I think he is doing ok. It has been great seeing the media lose their minds on a daily basis. Grasping at things not even Alex Jones would think are credible.[/QUOTE]
Alex Jones also doesn't think that the Sandy Hook school shooting was 'credible' so I don't know if I'd use him as a barometer to judge anything.
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I do not know what possesses people to just not care about the facts of their reality, and completely substitute them with their own.[/QUOTE]
The weird thing about Trump from the start was that people seem to treat him like a blank slate for them to project whatever the fuck they want to believe onto him.
A blank slate that happens to be the least charismatic man to have ever lived and a massive incompetent manchild.
[QUOTE=Reds;53022057]The weird thing about Trump from the start was that people seem to treat him like a blank slate for them to project whatever the fuck they want to believe onto him.
A blank slate that happens to be the least charismatic man to have ever lived and a massive incompetent manchild.[/QUOTE]
Trump is basically right wingers' imaginary friend.
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