As America enters a dark tunnel of dangerous internal divisions and an increasingly violent public discourse, Donald Trump is escalating his attacks on many of this nation’s institutions.
One of the most dramatic battlegrounds is the US president’s war on the media.
It was typified this week when Trump announced he was beginning a $US15 billion ($22 billion) defamation lawsuit against The New York Times.
It was not for any particular article, but rather a general dislike of one of the country’s oldest, and most cherished, institutions. Trump is arguing the paper has become a mouthpiece for the Democrats and in general defames him.
He’s doing this because it works for him. His MAGA base — the Make America Great Again loyalists who twice propelled him into the White House — delight in his attacks on the media.
This is happening in both big and small ways. The big ways are the lawsuits and threats. The small ways are how the Trump White House is, day by day, changing the composition of the journalists who can question the president and his spokespeople.
the epstein files has gotten him on edge, any percieved criticism potentially leads to epstein files.
His opposition is the democratic party and he’s a fascist pedo.
Of course he doesn’t get challenged.
“When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”
He’s a felon, and a demented rapist. Start there.
Feel free to mention him losing in 2020 and staging a coup.
Our corporate news sewers sure won’t.
They should only ask him question about his rape and fraud going forward. Instead they let him control the conversation every time
so fuckin sick of this moron, and his group of morons. wish his cook would do like the old kings cooks would do
The last episode of John Oliver before the election last year he made a plea to anyone undecided or not planning to vote to consider, if nothing else, how nice it would be to not have to hear about him everyday. I think about that world a lot
now those non-voters wish they voted huh, or paid attention to the election campaigns and voted. there were people that dint even bother voting simply, because they dint know an eleciton was going on, or how it affected them at the moment.
His sodium levels are 10% less than a lethal dose. I bet his ankles are as big as cats.
mcdonalds, do your thing. clog his arteries and increase his blood presure.
Asking leaders of the American regime questions is hate speech.
“A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech,” Mr Karl said, to which Mr Trump responded: “She’d probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. It’s hate. You have a lot of hate in your heart.”
A pedophile calling other people hateful is rich.
Yes that’s what dictators do
Isn’t that one of the reasons Stalin died so miserably ? People were so afraid of frustrating/angering him that they just never challenged anything he did or he said, even his doctors, for fear of reprisal.
yes, stalin had a happen of sending people to the gulag.
I mean part of that was also his history made him larger than life among the Soviet people.
Stalin tried to step down due to ailing health multiple times, and kept getting reelected, presumably because any successor would cause a huge shake up.
I have a feeling that when Trump was nearly dying from covid that they probably incapacitated his ass to save him, rather than listen to him demand that they inject bleach in his veins and shove a UV wand up his ass
it might get messy since he poops in his diaper.
