Thursday, May 23, 2019
Political Mayhem Thursday: The Reality Show
Yesterday, President Trump had a meeting at the White House with Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. The topic was to be a new infrastructure initiative. It appears that the following things happened:
1) Pelosi and Schumer showed up, along with some other congressional leaders.
2) President Trump said that he wasn't going to deal with them until they concluded investigations into his administration.
3) Then President Trump left the room.
4) In the Rose Garden, Trump gave a press conference at a podium bearing the words "NO COLLUSION. NO OBSTRUCTION."
5) The press went nuts. Headlines blared things like "Dems react to Trump-Pelosi feud!"
So, really, nothing of substance happened here. They had a non-meeting.
The thing is, Donald Trump has learned how to control the narrative. And he controls it the way a reality show contestant does: by creating drama, and then letting others talk about it.
At some point, the press bears some responsibility for covering the show in exactly the way Trump intends.
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It was a new low for our nation. All planned and orchestrated by the Brat in Chief. He really should just take his toys and go home to NY or Mira Lago or what ever country with no extradition that will take him. He has thoroughly exhausted me and I really can barely listen to his drivel anymore.
The press bears significant responsibility. It's an affront to journalistic integrity that the networks aren't dubbing this song over every Trump press conference (Pelosi and Schumer are not far from deserving the same treatment).
Good take. One quibble. I would say Trump is more like the reality show star and producer and Speaker Pelosi and Minority Leader Schumer are more like the contestants. The Speaker and Minority Leader seem to have the capacity to create drama but not quite control it (yet). The worm could turn here any day.
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