The thing I don’t get is the same press that is being kept at a distance from an obviously not hale and hearty president isn’t screaming for answers?
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They are doing what they are told by their bosses because they need their jobs like anyone else. I want to know why the people who are supporting this convicted felon backing this guy. I can’t understand why when they are Christian church goers & aware that this isn’t by any means Christian?
sep 1, 2025, 4:16 pm • 2 0 • view
Follow the money. Right wing oligarchs own the media and they're hiding something.
sep 1, 2025, 4:41 pm • 4 0 • view
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sep 1, 2025, 5:02 pm • 2 0 • view
gop will definitely move to replace juneteenth as federal holiday with trump's burthday.
sep 1, 2025, 6:38 pm • 3 0 • view
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sep 1, 2025, 6:40 pm • 0 0 • view
You don't get it? Where have you been. The same press that would savage any Democrat has made it their mission to promote and protect Trump.
sep 1, 2025, 4:30 pm • 1 0 • view
I have been thinking the same thing. Where's Kaitlin Collins, for example, on this? She has as much access to the president as any member of the press in history. Crickets.
sep 1, 2025, 8:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Double standard for ol’ Biscuit Ankles, and please disregard whatever is being tossed out the window.
sep 1, 2025, 7:30 pm • 0 0 • view
They are paid to ignore the crimes against humanity from the mango Menace. They could give a shit, the journalist in this country are embarrassing and should burn their diplomas
sep 1, 2025, 7:08 pm • 0 0 • view
His name isn’t Biden
sep 1, 2025, 7:32 pm • 1 0 • view
It does raise a big question for those who say the press likes Trump because of "TV ratings"
sep 1, 2025, 4:25 pm • 6 0 • view
sep 1, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
We know everything about every potential assassin.We know everything about mass shooters, but we know nothing about the guy in Butler. nothing. Why the mystery here, as well? And why did the press go after every Biden narrative that republicans fed them, no matter how obviously crazy?
sep 1, 2025, 8:28 pm • 1 0 • view
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sep 1, 2025, 7:10 pm • 0 0 • view
They’ve been neutered?
sep 1, 2025, 7:27 pm • 0 0 • view
The Fourth Estate is near completely billionaire owned and operated.
sep 1, 2025, 7:13 pm • 0 0 • view
WHITE TRASH HOUSE IS ON FIRE (IN THE GOOD WAY) - THE PRESS IS TOO BUSY CHASING UFOS, ARCH MANNING'S CAREER AND SOME GUY WHO ATE 27 HOTDOGS TO NOTICE ANYTHING ELSE. IF THE PRESIDENT’S NOT HALE, HE’LL JUST PHONE IT IN FROM THE 18TH HOLE AFTER SHOOTING ANOTHER 68! ⛳🔥
sep 1, 2025, 10:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Are you under the false impression that the press is an independent and unbiased news gathering industry???
sep 1, 2025, 6:13 pm • 1 0 • view
If it was Biden Fox would be talking non stop about an absent President.
sep 1, 2025, 5:31 pm • 5 0 • view
The press only wants answers from Democratic presidents.
sep 1, 2025, 8:02 pm • 2 0 • view
his buddies run the press liberal, leftist media has been a lie for awhile
sep 1, 2025, 4:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Maybe they don't want to jinx it.
sep 1, 2025, 9:50 pm • 0 0 • view
@jaketapper.bsky.social @peterbakernyt.bsky.social
sep 1, 2025, 4:08 pm • 11 2 • view
Because they are worried about profits rather than doing their f ing job. Fk traditional media.
sep 1, 2025, 6:19 pm • 0 0 • view
They're not allowed.
sep 1, 2025, 4:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Cahoots.
sep 1, 2025, 7:34 pm • 2 0 • view
I think it’s all smoke and mirrors. He’s building the suspense so that right as the Epstein Victims have their press conference he can magically appear at the same time and all the media will focus their attention on HIM not the VICTIMS!
sep 1, 2025, 4:23 pm • 23 3 • view
I think you may have nailed it!
sep 1, 2025, 4:48 pm • 4 0 • view
🎯🎯🎯THIS‼️ The minute those Epstein victims start telling their truth, the 🍊💩🤡will pop up somewhere and all the networks will jump to whatever he is doing‼️‼️
sep 1, 2025, 10:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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sep 1, 2025, 5:43 pm • 1 0 • view
They do ask, and they don't get straight answers to publish - standard procedure for the Trump Regime. And then they ask Trump sycophants - same result. And for some reason, reporters aren't allowed to hold these people at gunpoint and demand answers.
sep 1, 2025, 5:48 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m in the camp thinking the press conference of the Epstein/Trump victims is so bad they’re going to conjure up serious medical problems so he can’t be summoned in court? Like Mueller …
sep 1, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Big fat same.
sep 1, 2025, 8:08 pm • 0 0 • view
The WH press pool has been culled to Trump supporters and most mainstream media is owned by Right Wing Billionaires now.
sep 1, 2025, 5:24 pm • 2 0 • view
When you're paid to keep quiet you keep quiet.
sep 1, 2025, 4:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Maybe nobody misses him?
sep 1, 2025, 9:02 pm • 0 0 • view
The press are exhausted and happy for a break from the rollercoaster of the Trump administration.
sep 1, 2025, 10:00 pm • 0 0 • view
1) ask Gruden what day he golfed with tRump. 2) his tracks should be easier to follow.
sep 1, 2025, 4:31 pm • 10 0 • view
They're being told not to ask.
sep 1, 2025, 5:22 pm • 0 0 • view
They have all been complicit since Day 1 (of his last Presidency!). 🙄
sep 1, 2025, 7:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Yet they couldn’t get enough of “Biden Too Old” stories just a year ago.
sep 1, 2025, 4:07 pm • 21 1 • view
It’s because he’s Republican, and Trump. For whatever reason the press insists on keeping up the myth that Trump is some kind of ageless specimen that remains hale and strong despite the evidence of our eyes If a Dem gets a cold they scream to the heavens that their not fit enough for the job
sep 1, 2025, 9:06 pm • 3 0 • view
We are stuck with the most cowardly press in decades at the worst possible time.
sep 1, 2025, 4:16 pm • 34 4 • view
If you scream at a Dem for answers, you get answers. Maybe spun, maybe even dishonest, but you get them and congratulate yourself on your journalism. Ask a MAGA for answers, and they take your press pass. So no answers requested.
sep 1, 2025, 4:14 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m sure @jaketapper.bsky.social is on it! He’s super into stories about the government hiding a decrepit President from us
sep 1, 2025, 6:55 pm • 3 0 • view
He’ll tell us all about it in his new book when it comes out in four years.
sep 1, 2025, 9:57 pm • 1 0 • view
Yup, Johnny Deadline over here
sep 1, 2025, 10:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Mainstream USA media is CORRUPT AF They only parrot what their fake golden PEDOleader tells them.
sep 1, 2025, 4:34 pm • 2 0 • view
this was him in his late 50s/early 60s. so, it's obvious why he's never thrown out the first pitch at nats park as president.
sep 1, 2025, 6:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Exactly. And now he is even worse !!
sep 1, 2025, 7:41 pm • 1 0 • view
They're counting on @jaketapper.bsky.social to cover it all .
sep 1, 2025, 5:03 pm • 1 0 • view
With a Democrat the press screams for answers, with a Republican they wait meekly for marching orders.
sep 1, 2025, 8:56 pm • 1 0 • view
The same press refers to Epstein as a “disgraced financier.” Like a made a bad loan or two.
sep 1, 2025, 7:38 pm • 1 0 • view
Their owners have shut it down
sep 1, 2025, 10:09 pm • 0 0 • view
They're toeing the line as usual for the past 10 years. Now you see clearly how much they are to blame for the end of democracy in America.
sep 1, 2025, 5:29 pm • 1 0 • view
They like Trump and want him to win, it’s not complicated
sep 1, 2025, 5:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Their Billionaire Owners Are Cowards Who Now Believe That Telling The American People The Truth Will Cut Into Their Profits And Make Them Targets Of Trump's Extortion Racket....
sep 1, 2025, 10:42 pm • 0 0 • view
that makes entirely too much sense
sep 1, 2025, 10:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, you see, that's how the news media prove they are not "liberal biased"--give Trumpublican lies and treason uncritical coverage while subjecting every Dem hiccup to full-blown investigative coverage.
sep 1, 2025, 10:29 pm • 0 0 • view
They're really doing the public/readers a disservice by not pursuing this obvious story and reporting on it. Are they afraid of legal retaliation simply for asking questions as well as noting what is visible to all of us? It's journalistic negligence as well as a glaring double standard.
sep 1, 2025, 4:26 pm • 1 0 • view
Bunch of complicit assholes and cowards
sep 1, 2025, 5:47 pm • 5 0 • view
They are complicit. Mainstream “news” is devoid of journalism.
sep 1, 2025, 4:10 pm • 1 0 • view
If that was Biden, Jake Tapper would go 24/7 on CNN
sep 1, 2025, 6:16 pm • 10 1 • view
Well u all know who owns the press
sep 1, 2025, 8:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Good question. HEY MAINSTREAM MEDIA!!! Why the hell are you not aaaaaallll over Trump's health issues? WTF, are you owned by the GoP or something? That and stay focused on getting the full unredacted Epstein client list released.
sep 1, 2025, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Change its name to Biden and they'll be all over it. Heck, Jake Tapper may even write another book.
sep 1, 2025, 6:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Reminds me of all the happy-talk reports and staged photos we got when he had covid.
sep 1, 2025, 7:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Cause they are waiting to bash Biden for dropping an ice cream cone.
sep 1, 2025, 5:35 pm • 4 0 • view
They're waiting to be shocked by a certain event.
sep 1, 2025, 4:16 pm • 9 0 • view
Probably already have the death reel in the can ready to go.
sep 1, 2025, 7:00 pm • 2 0 • view
They were cherry picked for the job…
sep 1, 2025, 6:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Jake Tapper’s been pretty quiet lately.
sep 1, 2025, 6:53 pm • 0 0 • view
They love him
sep 1, 2025, 4:14 pm • 1 0 • view
I believe Jake Tapper is planning on tackling that in his new book about Biden and how old he is.
sep 1, 2025, 6:03 pm • 3 0 • view
well, if democrats had only run around screaming about Joe Biden being old, then the press would have been given permission to report accurately on Trump, but they didn’t intentionally lose the election to favor R’s when their candidate was too old, so now the press has to let T do whatever he wants
sep 1, 2025, 9:20 pm • 0 0 • view
He isn't a Democrat. The standards are obviously different.
sep 1, 2025, 5:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Counrerpoint: jOe BiDeN bAd¡
sep 1, 2025, 6:37 pm • 0 0 • view
They live in fear of being called 'nasty'
sep 1, 2025, 4:15 pm • 1 0 • view
They're crazy. As a Nasty Woman since 2016, it's a badge of honor. #notmypresident either in 2016 or 2024.
sep 1, 2025, 4:19 pm • 3 0 • view
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sep 1, 2025, 5:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Trump isn't Biden.
sep 1, 2025, 4:05 pm • 3 0 • view
The press running a COVERUP????
sep 1, 2025, 6:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Yep
sep 1, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
sep 1, 2025, 6:17 pm • 0 0 • view
It confirms our worst belief about MSM.
sep 1, 2025, 4:55 pm • 1 0 • view
I've noticed many of the articles that have raised the question about his whereabouts have photos of him golfing at previous events, and have conveniently removed that info. from the pics.
sep 1, 2025, 7:15 pm • 0 0 • view
They're watching that sweet, sweet gravy train pull out of the station and are working through the stages of grief.
sep 1, 2025, 4:21 pm • 2 0 • view
B/C much of MSM is owned by right leaning owners who have a vested interest ($$$) in keeping the orange Turd floating in the bowl for as long as possible.
sep 1, 2025, 5:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Isn’t the media room full of shills and cowards now? I don’t watch legacy media anyway. Aggregators aren’t real journalists.
sep 1, 2025, 7:15 pm • 0 0 • view
They are all-in for being propaganda tools
sep 1, 2025, 4:41 pm • 2 0 • view
Personally, I don't give a F whether he lives or dies. If he said he was alive, I'd assume it was just another lie.
sep 1, 2025, 7:14 pm • 0 0 • view
They are NAZI owned and operated. What do you expect?
sep 1, 2025, 4:39 pm • 0 0 • view
They’re reporting on his latest posts like he actually wrote them, which is always a big unknown but esp now. And they report he’s going to his golf club without ever seeing him actually golf. 🤷♀️
sep 1, 2025, 8:27 pm • 2 0 • view
Trump and the media
sep 1, 2025, 4:36 pm • 2 0 • view
Has someone submitted it on the NYT's tip portal? Maybe the journalists there just don't know /s
sep 1, 2025, 4:09 pm • 81 3 • view
Omg! People should do that. Lots and lots of people should do that!
sep 1, 2025, 4:46 pm • 26 1 • view
they'll just eliminate it like they eliminated the ombuds.
sep 1, 2025, 6:37 pm • 2 0 • view
Probably
sep 1, 2025, 7:04 pm • 0 0 • view
sep 1, 2025, 5:45 pm • 13 0 • view
I don’t get that you don’t get it. Why would a complicit press do anything other than remain silent?
sep 1, 2025, 4:06 pm • 48 1 • view
Exactly!
sep 1, 2025, 4:20 pm • 3 0 • view
Yeah, I have to go with this. What's left of the mainstream press has capitulated to the administration on EVERY other issue. Why would this be different?
sep 1, 2025, 4:21 pm • 18 0 • view
It's very difficult to accept that *none* of these people have a remaining ounce of self respect; but then I remember the Ezra Klein - Jake Tapper podcast about how Biden is old.
sep 1, 2025, 5:46 pm • 14 2 • view
Man, for how quickly Jake Tapper caved he must be in the Epstein files
sep 1, 2025, 7:11 pm • 9 0 • view
Anything for “access” Any lie any sane washing spin will do as long as they retain “access”. Real reporting is hard with the fact checks and double checked sources and the good writing Better to just sane washing spin will whatever crap comes out of his mouth in an Oval press gaggle. Lot less work
sep 1, 2025, 9:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Sheep.
sep 1, 2025, 9:42 pm • 0 0 • view
They are afraid to. Trump and his circle threaten the press. Biden like other presidents did not. The press repaid Biden by hounding him about his age. The press are cowards concerned about access and, ultimately, feathering their own nests with book deals and better compensation.
sep 1, 2025, 4:20 pm • 36 3 • view
Owned by Republican douchebags that don't give a shit about America in any way. That bank account is way more important than children being able to eat and not die in the streets. Billionaires want way more than they already have and couldn't care less. Billionaires are ruining America
sep 1, 2025, 7:12 pm • 5 0 • view
So much about the press is hard to understand.
sep 1, 2025, 4:06 pm • 10 1 • view
Counterpoint. It's easy to understand, but the conclusions are depressing.
sep 1, 2025, 4:22 pm • 12 0 • view
I get your point. I just have trouble understanding that reporters (not all) are willfully ignoring the biggest story in a generation. They’re passing on being the Edward R. Murrow of their time.
sep 1, 2025, 4:54 pm • 5 0 • view
Much easier to understand when you consider that Mussolini was a news publisher.
sep 1, 2025, 9:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Similar to pizza index at pentagon, is there something similar for expensive champagnes where billionaire donors congregate?
sep 1, 2025, 7:07 pm • 1 0 • view
They are but he ignores them, then they are barred from AF1 and press conferences.
sep 1, 2025, 5:45 pm • 0 0 • view
I get it. They want autocracy.
sep 1, 2025, 4:11 pm • 3 0 • view
Fair. Being a "reporter" is much easier if you wake up in the morning and your daily copy has all been prepared for you.
sep 1, 2025, 4:24 pm • 3 0 • view
The serious, principled press will only report the absolute facts that they investigated themselves. Lol, just kidding, can you imagine a press corps that would actually do such a thing rather than simply transcribe whatever lying nonsense that falls that falls out of the GOP's pie holes?
sep 1, 2025, 7:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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sep 1, 2025, 5:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Knowing they will be punished, many members of the press corps censor themselves and thus prove themselves worthless during this time of national crisis.
sep 1, 2025, 5:01 pm • 5 1 • view
The executives in charge, after needlessly, expensively settling several lawsuits, have forbidden screaming for answers.
sep 1, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Because the press takes its cues from @nytimes.com and Trump hasn’t hurt A.G. Sulzberger’s fee-fees yet.
sep 1, 2025, 4:23 pm • 5 3 • view
Why so they can report the lies they are told? Trump says he is healthy we got our answer, print it.
sep 1, 2025, 4:19 pm • 1 0 • view
They'd rather cover a 99% degraded Trump than a 100% healthy Vance
sep 1, 2025, 4:22 pm • 4 0 • view
Because Trump is a Republican. I’ve never quite understood why, but the media, even the supposedly “liberal” outlets, are far more comfortable going after a Dem admin than a GOP one. Is it fear? Do they think Dem-bashing gets ratings and GOP criticism doesn’t? Are they just bought and paid for?
sep 1, 2025, 6:31 pm • 2 0 • view
The most generous read is that the bosses and personalities that make up the mainstream media aren't willing to risk their own privilege. Trump bullied them relentlessly, proved he would use the full power of government to seek revenge, and they gave in rather than fighting back for their rights.
sep 1, 2025, 4:18 pm • 41 1 • view
Don’t forget that the WH press corp was remade with trump 2.0 hand picked “reporters” who will swallow down what ever the admin tells them so they don’t lose access… Plus they support him & his agenda
sep 1, 2025, 7:53 pm • 10 0 • view
Remember everybody in the White House press pool are sycophants now and they are being paid off to not ask these questions or really say anything in public at all.
sep 1, 2025, 4:32 pm • 2 1 • view
CHF will get him soon. I will dance and celebrate!
sep 1, 2025, 7:28 pm • 0 0 • view
It is because they are materially comfortable and don’t want much more than that. They are afraid of losing that, and so the charade continues.
sep 1, 2025, 4:10 pm • 9 0 • view
They've always coddled donny. Probably still will, even as the gross, sordid details of child rape slowly emerge from the depths they're so desperate to bury them in.
sep 1, 2025, 6:15 pm • 6 0 • view
Because Republicans control the narrative. If FOX doesn't tell liberal outlets to cover Trump's health then they won't. Democrats and liberal media are incapable of thinking for themselves.
sep 1, 2025, 6:52 pm • 1 0 • view
meal ticket in danger, might have to work for a living, ignore it and it might go away, 3 reasons why...
sep 1, 2025, 4:33 pm • 4 0 • view
first it doesn't fit with their propaganda narrative. second when the actual news hits his followers are going to be babes in the woods. Maybelline will be ineffective as a successor. they will have to flip their audience and that's an extremely tall order.
sep 1, 2025, 5:30 pm • 1 0 • view
Because you can’t two side a one sided issue🧐
sep 1, 2025, 6:09 pm • 0 0 • view
They never do
sep 1, 2025, 5:03 pm • 0 0 • view
That’s how propaganda works. We have a captive media, and every one of those motherfucking journalists should be shamed forever for playing along. I don’t care who it is.
sep 1, 2025, 4:45 pm • 17 0 • view
Bob, he’s a “Republican”.
sep 1, 2025, 6:58 pm • 0 0 • view
What do Yes men and women do when there is no one to say yes to?
sep 1, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Well, they have plenty of unanswered questions about how Joe Biden is doing.
sep 1, 2025, 5:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Name is not “Biden.”
sep 1, 2025, 7:07 pm • 0 0 • view