In order to deal effectively with adversaries
it is necessary to have accurate information about them and an ability to
process this information accurately. The establishment media is failing miserably in their
efforts to discredit Donald Trump because they have a distorted view of Trump
and a high opinion of their own abilities that borders on delusional. Donald Trump is a genius. One of the traits of his genius is the
ability to convince people that he is not all that bright and that he is
hypersensitive about insults. He
is continuously underestimated by his critics who repeatedly claim that his
last mishap has destroyed him.
Tony Schwartz, who helped Trump write “Art of the Deal,” explained how
Trump “plays” people: “On the phone with business associates, Trump would
flatter, bully, and occasionally get mad, but always in a calculated way,”
Schwartz recalled that he once saw Trump verbally abuse someone on the phone,
hang up, look at Schwartz and calmly say something like, “Do you think it
worked?”
Trump’s opponents think they are significantly
more intelligent than him. This is
one of the traps he has sets.
These people are paid enormous salaries to read from teleprompters or
pontificate about subjects about which they know little or nothing. People like Mika Brzezinski who believe
it is her job to control what people think reportedly had the lowest SAT scores
in the history of the college she attended. Wolf Blitzer embarrassed himself when he appeared on
Jeopardy. Al (“resist we much”)
Sharpton reveals that he could not even read from a teleprompter. Yet people condemn Trump for
being as Martin Sheen dubbed him an “empty-headed moron.” Sheen knows how a president should act
because he played one on TV. This
is reminiscent of Rep. Tom Daschle who invited four actresses who had played
farm wives in movies—Jane Fonda, Sissy Spacek, Jessica Lange, and Sally
Field—to testify before the Democratic members of a House committee on Capitol
Hill about the future of family farms.
When people confuse fantasy with reality there is a problem.
One of Trump’s most effective tools is his
twitter account. Friend and foe
alike has advised him to abandon this form of communication. The loudest people advising him to
abandon twitter are the ones who have been damaged by it the most. Many of these posts are
outrageous. They are intentionally
so. Had Trump tweeted, “Mika
Brzezinski is being unreasonable,” his message would not have garnered media
attention. Trump uses his twitter
account to communicate directly with the public without the establishment
media’s filter. At one time the
establishment media held a monopoly on information. The loss off their power has deranged many of them. One example of how the media shades
news stories is provided by Paul Waldman’s comment about an “unprovoked assault
on a journalist.” While
Congressman Gianoforte should not have assaulted this journalist he could have
had security remove him and possibly press charges against him.
Trump tends to exaggerate and is often imprecise. He is therefore accused of lying. But these claims frequently turn out to
have a firm basis. His claim about
illegals voting may be backed up by a Harvard study on illegal voters. He tweeted, “Terrible! Just found out
that Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory.
Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”
Obama obviously did not personally “wire tap” Trump Tower. “Wire tapping” is no longer done. This does not invalidate the essential
truth of his statement.
The media establishment wraps itself in the
flag and the First Amendment. Carl
Bernstein complained “It’s not just anti-CNN, it’s anti-freedom of the press,
it’s anti-freedom of speech.” The
Committee to Protect Journalists stated, ”Freedom of the press is a cornerstone
of our democracy. The press are the people's window into the halls of power,
and most importantly, they are the people's check on that power. When the
president attacks the press, he attacks the people." Jonathan Ernst from Reuters claims
Trump’s attacks on the press threaten to undermine public confidence in its
work. What they are intentionally
missing is that Trump is not attacking the press. He is addressing the establishment media’s abuse of the
First Amendment. The press has
undermined itself by promoting laughably fake news stories. Victor Davis Hanson observed, “CNN is
now no longer a news organization, but has been reduced to caricature by Trump
hatred.” Trump has encouraged
their irrational reports.
Reporters are now in fear of their lives. A reporter for a porn magazine
confronted Trump’s spokesperson for commenting on a retracted CNN story. He claimed she was being “inflammatory”
for reporting the facts of this incident.
The Committee to Protect Journalists issued the statement, "Targeting
individual journalists or media outlets, on or offline, creates a chilling
effect and fosters an environment where further harassment or even physical
attack is deemed acceptable.”
They condemned “the president's threat of physical violence against
journalists.” Jeffrey Goldberg,
editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, claimed Trump will inspire someone "to do
something violent against journalists in a large way." Ana Navarro claimed Trump’s tweet was,
“an incitement to violence. He is going to get somebody killed in the
media. The president of the United
States is inciting violence against the free press and America.”
It is actually Trump’s opponents who are
promoting violence. Robert DiNiro
wants to punch Trump in the face.
Tim Kaine told Democrats to “take the fight to the streets.” Madonna wants to blow up the White
House. Johnny Depp is talking
about its time for actors to assassinate President’s. Kathy Griffin holding DJT’s bloody head failed the humor
test. Rapper Snoop Dogg's new
video features a mock shooting of a clown version of Donald Trump. Shakespeare in the Park depicts an
assassination of Trump. Howard
Dean answered by labeled Trump voters as people “with guns that want to shoot
up the place” and the NRA as a “white supremacist organization.”
Jonathan Ernst complains, “it feels
demoralizing to be attacked repeatedly by the president of the United States;
some feel physically threatened.”
Could a president also be demoralized by relentless criticism? Donny Deutsch protested, “Enough is enough with this disgusting
vulgar man and to talk about women that way, and the irony is you physically
look like you do, beyond the stupidity of it. You are a pig.” Jerry Springer declared, “I’m sorry, but Trump’s behavior is not
just beneath the dignity of the presidency…but that of any decent man.” De Niro also calls Trump “blatantly
stupid,” “a punk” and a “bulls–t artist.”
Reza Aslan CNN’s religious scholar called Trump a piece of shit. Stephen Hawking attributes the end of
the world to Trump: “We are close to the tipping point where global
warming.” Where were these critics
when Bill Clinton was abusing an intern or when Barack Obama was inviting rap
singers to the White House?
Trump concentrates his attacks on members of
the elite. President Obama,
Hillary Clinton and their media allies concentrated their attacks on the
Deplorables and people clinging to their guns and bibles. They have a distorted view of
reality. Yet Jonathan Ernst who
claims Trump “inflated his mediocre business career,” believes “Trump has a knack for choosing weak
adversaries.” Donald Trump has
taken on the media with its tens of thousands of researchers, academia, the bureaucracy
and a large part of the business community. To claim a multibillionaire has had a mediocre business
career and to claim he attacks weak adversaries in an indication of a lack of
attachment to reality.
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