what i like about this is that politico doesn’t ask whether trump is actually doing the job of president. the frequency with which trump is on tv suggests not!
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when has there been an answer on any detailed policy question that *hasn't* been rambling and erratic? like any answer that needs more than a single complete sentence is pretty much guaranteed to go off-topic and never return.
may 28, 2025, 7:17 pm • 0 0 • view
In summation: Politico = 🗑️
may 28, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Very true -- but accessibility matters! I think its why he beat Harris and why it's important that the next Democratic candidate show a willingness to talk with all comers (Buttigieg or someone like him).
may 28, 2025, 1:59 pm • 1 0 • view
😡😡😡🤮
may 29, 2025, 12:08 am • 0 0 • view
Media out here acting like they’re the president’s grandmother “oh you never come see me” I don’t want to grandma, you smell and always tell all my secrets to all your old lady friends
may 28, 2025, 3:31 pm • 0 0 • view
but they also say he is impressive . . .
may 28, 2025, 6:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, the appearances give the impression that he's working, but the data from 1.0 suggests that he's probably putting in little to no time.
may 28, 2025, 2:53 pm • 0 0 • view
Politico, like Fox News, is a big reason why we are here.
may 28, 2025, 1:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Do you remember how exhausted everyone was toward the end of Trump's first term, wistfully hoping for a president who was boring and didn't always need to be in front of a camera? I remember. Media included. The president shouldn't always need attention and there's nothing impressive about it.
may 28, 2025, 3:07 pm • 1 0 • view
We seem to have become a quantity over quality society with this shift of an attention economy.
may 28, 2025, 2:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow. Does Politico have any sense at all? Drumpf is using them for free access to the media, in order to push his sick demented agenda and lie to the American people. Why does anyone compare this self serving sociopath to an empathetic man as Biden? There’s no comparison.
may 28, 2025, 7:59 pm • 0 0 • view
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may 28, 2025, 8:12 pm • 2 1 • view
No wonder. More twisted fake news.
may 28, 2025, 8:22 pm • 0 0 • view
He gives them clickbait; they turn themselves into a copy machine. It's an easier way to make a living than real journalism.
may 28, 2025, 9:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Also don’t note that most of what he says are lies
may 28, 2025, 7:12 pm • 2 0 • view
I assume the days he didn't do media appearances were golf days.
may 28, 2025, 4:46 pm • 0 0 • view
I can't believe this is from Politico. It sounds like something Fox would put out. 🙁👎🏼
may 28, 2025, 3:22 pm • 0 0 • view
I would hardly call what reporters the republicans trust to be in the same room with Trump scrutiny.
may 29, 2025, 1:27 am • 1 0 • view
STOP GIVING THESE CRIMINALS OUR TAX MONEY!!
may 28, 2025, 1:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Pick a lane, driving in the middle is not sustainable!!
may 28, 2025, 1:51 pm • 1 0 • view
That’s the thing, I don’t WANT to see or hear the president as much as we do. gah, Politico!
may 29, 2025, 5:10 pm • 0 0 • view
may 28, 2025, 7:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Sheesh "hit rate"
may 28, 2025, 8:28 pm • 3 0 • view
They also say he has “taken questions”, not that he has answered them. Subtle, yet important. When it’s a question he doesn’t like he attacks the reporter personally & professionally, and usually declares they should be fired, or that the network should be taken off the air.
may 28, 2025, 3:16 pm • 6 0 • view
Fuck you, Politico. Just, fuck you. You suck.
may 28, 2025, 2:47 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't know if politico is kidding his ass or being underhanded and exposing his failures Creative twisted writings
may 28, 2025, 5:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Folks go hit up Politico on BS then block their Nazi asses every story is touting this administration. They gone.
may 28, 2025, 1:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Holy shit that is some disgusting gaslighting from them. He answers questions? The demented racist rapist never answers fucking questions!
may 28, 2025, 1:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Every single post from Politico and Axios anymore just causes me to hear Governor Lepetomane yelling "we gotta protect our phony baloney jobs!" in my head instead
may 28, 2025, 1:29 pm • 4 0 • view
Remember, the owner of Politico "prays for Trump"
may 28, 2025, 10:28 pm • 1 2 • view
Another medium we can’t trust
may 29, 2025, 2:45 am • 0 0 • view
I understand why news outlets want representation from both sides. The problem is the right’s no longer about conservative governance, it’s about authoritarian indoctrination, brainwashing and the whiteification of America. So its supporters, left with nothing to defend, must ignore and pretend.
may 28, 2025, 2:01 pm • 0 0 • view
“Sometimes?”
may 28, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 0 • view
We know where he is at. We wish he would shut up and go away.
may 28, 2025, 2:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Jesus, Politico is worse than the NYT. And I didn't think that was even possible.
may 29, 2025, 12:41 pm • 2 0 • view
And he's golfing what, 25% of the days? 30%? So between golf & lying to media, he has only a little time left to surf Fox for his next telegenic but incompetent appointment to some position that used to require some ability other than a TV smile.
may 28, 2025, 2:43 pm • 0 0 • view
Losers are the rich bums in America. They ruin everything cuz they don't pay out like everybody else they're freeloaders and bums.
may 29, 2025, 7:28 am • 0 0 • view
This confirms what we already know. There is no journalism left, reporters dont cover the story, they want to be the story. They want "easy access" they are the palace wags waiting in the shadows in hope of catching a juicy whispered tidbit of gossip.
may 28, 2025, 4:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Love using the term “accessible” to literally only mean “journalists have access to him” & not how one would colloquially, as in “approachable,” “comprehensible,” or “transparent” to the average American.
may 28, 2025, 2:37 pm • 5 0 • view
Until the very end of that long first sentence, you’d think they were leading up to a condemnation of him, but nope!
may 28, 2025, 4:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Definitely a really bad take by Politico.
may 28, 2025, 5:25 pm • 1 0 • view
TRUMP: that’s a stupid question. your employer should be out of business. im going to sue you for ten million dollars and we’re giving your spot here to the eaglepatriot1488 facebook WH REPORTER: wow the president is talking to me 😍😍😍
may 28, 2025, 1:17 pm • 3 0 • view
The media feeds Trump's pathological need for attention and Trump feeds the media's need for an attention-grabbing spectacle. Trump and the American media perpetuate each other the same way drug-resistant syphilis and Kid Rock tours do.
may 28, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s like saying that a president who is available to lie, spit venom, and spew nonsense daily is better than one who provides thoughtful, honest, articulate information less often. From the press, such a position wreaks of self-validation and tone deafness.
may 28, 2025, 3:27 pm • 0 0 • view
What? At this point how can we distinguish between Politico and the right wing propaganda machine. Based on results, the conclusion is the opposite. Joe Biden showed that spending time doing the job of president results in much more concrete achievements. Senile mad king performing for media, none.
may 28, 2025, 3:06 pm • 3 0 • view
Have they been bought too?
may 28, 2025, 3:19 pm • 0 0 • view
The frequency of Trump's TV appearances does suggest a different kind of "job" description, doesn't it? It's as if the role of President has been redefined to include a hefty dose of reality TV showmanship.
may 28, 2025, 1:01 pm • 4 0 • view
Oh, man, play every angle much? Pathetic.
may 28, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view
may 29, 2025, 3:31 am • 2 0 • view
Does that make Trump the Inbox Zero of Presidents or the Posts Through It? Neither actually gets anything done, but they sure look busy
may 29, 2025, 12:08 am • 1 0 • view
Given he is a narcissist, I'm surprised the figure is so low. I can't recall a solitary press conference where he didn't lie or make things up. The figures also suggest he did pressers on his numerous golf days? Surely not.
may 28, 2025, 2:04 pm • 5 0 • view
Seeing/hearing where Trump is on the daily equates to terror. 2nd he only speaks for his own reasons not to answer Media questions-not transparency. Politico’s cute anti-news snippet is to feed the beast so he doesn’t bite.
may 28, 2025, 2:53 pm • 1 0 • view
“Most accessible president in modern history”?! More like most attention-seeking. 🤦♀️
may 28, 2025, 4:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Confronted by the rage of a population holding its feet to the fire and demanding real news, access journalism and mainstream media outlets have turned instead to passive-aggressive, spiteful, unending autofellatio.
may 28, 2025, 1:54 pm • 1 0 • view
His obsession with being in front of a camera doesn’t have anything to do with it? Idiots.
may 28, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Just more sycophancy.
may 28, 2025, 1:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes we can see what level of moral and cognitive decline he's at!
may 29, 2025, 12:08 am • 1 0 • view
“HOW IMPORTANT IT IS THAT LEADERS ARE HELD UP TO REGULAR SCRUTINY. Trump's answers may sometimes be rambling, erratic - or even downright unpleasant - but every American voter can see where he's at.” scrutiny? sometimes rambling, erratic? has politico covered any of his or his admin’s pressers?
may 28, 2025, 6:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Great point. The content of his appearances also suggest that.
may 28, 2025, 8:25 pm • 0 0 • view
A lot of media outlets think making press appearances IS the job of the executive.
may 28, 2025, 1:13 pm • 2 0 • view
But @jamellebouie.net, as politico makes clear, the most critical part of the job is making media appearances, is it not?🤷🏻♂️
may 28, 2025, 1:21 pm • 4 0 • view
Why is he not dead yet?
may 28, 2025, 1:52 pm • 2 1 • view
Cheap rationalization for why the media's abysmal job is just fine: "the American voter can see where he's at" Oh, thanks. 🙄 Tell us about Biden, then.
may 28, 2025, 1:27 pm • 3 0 • view
Add in the time he golfs and attending MaL dinners & events and he’s at maybe 20% worktime?
may 28, 2025, 3:14 pm • 0 0 • view
Also, how many times has he responded "I don't know anything/haven't heard anything about that" when asked important questions related to things going on in his own administration?
may 28, 2025, 1:11 pm • 2 0 • view
This . . I can’t . . Just no . . must avoid politico by whatever means necessary
may 28, 2025, 2:52 pm • 1 0 • view
And when Tr*mp is on TV, he’s frequently signing an executive order that he’s seeing for the first time and has to be explained to him.
may 28, 2025, 1:05 pm • 9 0 • view
The only difference between Trump and the man standing on a corner screaming at the passing cars is Trump demands that the media cover him. And they do.
may 28, 2025, 2:11 pm • 6 0 • view
It's not like most of the country doesn't get that this whole Biden bash is an organized Fix. They do! It's just that this is the media we've got, and there doesn't appear to be a goddamned thing we can do to make it stop.
may 28, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view
The next graf is worse!
may 28, 2025, 4:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Fuck politico. Idiots!! Media is the reason! You just can’t be fair. Trump is the worse.
may 28, 2025, 1:08 pm • 1 0 • view
TV bullshit and golf. That's what he was elected for.🙄
may 28, 2025, 9:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Politico doesn't even care if he ANSWERS the questions. Making himself accessible is the whole issue for them.
may 28, 2025, 1:13 pm • 1 0 • view
other than his overt attempts to censor and retaliate against media outfits that try to maintain independent editorial standards, he's been remarkably accessible!
may 28, 2025, 2:39 pm • 18 1 • view
Outside of the lamentable banning of THE news organization that sets the standards of American journalism (you know just the most trusted media source in the US) from the press room, it's totes transparent. You can tell because they invited a real hard hitting journo, Tim Pool, soooooo transparent.
may 28, 2025, 3:09 pm • 0 1 • view
look, that censorship is "lamentable" but as long as we also ignore the white house seizing control of deciding who's in the the press pool and explicitly threatening reporters who ask tough questions, it's certainly a one-off! We have to ignore those to keep our own access you see
may 28, 2025, 2:42 pm • 14 0 • view
He’s not the President. He just plays one on tv.
may 28, 2025, 8:52 pm • 0 0 • view
here, trump and mainstream political media is largely in alignment: the job of president is to answer questions from political reporters
may 28, 2025, 12:59 pm • 1,706 189 • view
One of the most cynical truths of the Trump era is that the MSM just wants to be flattered, wined & dined. I think the way to go forward, sadly, is to approach them the way Hollywood stars approach the paparazzi and tabloids because both now act the same. DC was known as "Hollywood for ugly people."
may 28, 2025, 7:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Politico should try asking questions that Trump doesn't like and see if he's still as accessible.
may 28, 2025, 3:07 pm • 5 0 • view
I don’t think they really understand the even general details of the job. It’s to many of them just a show. Do you think that because their “beat” is I guess - general politics - that they do not develop subject matter expertise that helps them understand what’s important to report?
may 28, 2025, 1:59 pm • 1 0 • view
I think that, for whichever one’s still exist, state house reporters actually have to get into detail more and therefore really understand what is important in a way general national politics reporters don’t.
may 28, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
This is why we fail.
may 28, 2025, 1:06 pm • 1 0 • view
This man almost walked into a wall after a press conference because his brain is cooked, impressive stuff indeed 🙄
may 28, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
And tough, probing questions and follow-ups are avoided for fear of jeopardizing access which is the be all and end all.
may 28, 2025, 2:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Just as the job of baseball players is to answer questions from sports reporters
may 28, 2025, 2:51 pm • 14 0 • view
Yeah and I love the claim that anyone can “see where he’s at.” That changes everyday on stuff like the tariffs and the illegal stuff he does that gets stopped by the courts. Also, he lies constantly so can anyone parse what it means? And his officials often seem to work independently of him so…
may 28, 2025, 1:09 pm • 11 1 • view
Honestly, I wouldn't mind this IF the President was backed by dedicated civil servants do the hard work. Obviously, that's not what we have.
may 28, 2025, 1:07 pm • 2 0 • view
We also need to breakdown the media by type to see who trump is actually engaging with!
may 28, 2025, 1:50 pm • 2 0 • view
They are reporting how well this presidency is going for their news organization’s bottom line.
may 28, 2025, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Aren’t you mainstream media?
may 28, 2025, 5:44 pm • 0 0 • view
They’re all not serious people.
may 28, 2025, 1:32 pm • 0 0 • view
trump is a narcissist who loves being on tv. That's why he loved covid so much, he could do a presidential briefing every day! Inject bleach! While he mismanaged the pandemic and Jared scammed the states for PPEs. Obviously politico hasn't learned a thing
may 28, 2025, 3:56 pm • 1 0 • view
I suppose "I don't know" and "someone else handles that" are answers in the strictest sense. Lawyers like to distinguish a responsive reply from a non-responsive reply. I think with Trump, reporters need to do that too.
may 29, 2025, 5:47 am • 0 0 • view
It certainly makes their jobs easier.
may 28, 2025, 2:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Clickbait democracy, meets reality TV Hilarity ensues. A guys gotta make a living I guess. Can't say I am a fan
may 28, 2025, 5:47 pm • 1 0 • view
I do my best to tune such “coverage” out and deny it eyeballs/ratings. The only time I watch live coverage of a Trump event is when I’m in the mood to root for a live stroke/heart attack on air. But no amount of “thoughts and prayers” seems to be enough
may 28, 2025, 6:29 pm • 2 0 • view
I've been aware of DJT since I was eight years old in NYC. I almost never listen to him speak. If I need to hear from an asshole I can always fart.
may 28, 2025, 6:43 pm • 1 0 • view
My only awareness of this growing up was the recurring Conan bit with the joke interviews of a still photo w/moving lips, so even kid-me knew this guy was a joke. I’ve always been utterly repulsed by reality TV, & after all these years of avoiding this type, here they are again shoved in our faces.
may 30, 2025, 4:42 am • 2 0 • view
Yeah reality TV has largely been a cancer on our culture. I mostly avoid it other than a couple of guilty pleasures over the years like Auction Hunters & Project Runway I’m so out of it, I had absolutely no idea who these “Chrisleys” were that DT pardoned. Never heard of the show nor their crimes.
may 30, 2025, 11:51 am • 1 0 • view
It should have stayed cancelled, not moved to Washington D.C. Someone might find this interesting. On Jan. 8, 2004, just more than 20 years ago, the first episode of The Apprentice aired. It was called “Meet the Billionaire,” and 18 million people watched slate.com/culture/2024...
may 30, 2025, 12:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Yup. I was ringing alarm bells THE SECOND he started creeping into DC. When the Feds agreed to lease him the Old Post Office for his hotel, I ranted on many comment boards like WaPo, condemning the move & warning that letting this guy get a toehold in DC is inviting a cancer into our body politic.
may 30, 2025, 4:08 pm • 0 0 • view
“Answer” is doing a lot of work here
may 28, 2025, 1:01 pm • 186 2 • view
Reporter: [Asks question] Trump: Where are you from? Reporter: [Names employer] Trump: The failing [employer]? They're fake news. They're disgusting. And you're disgusting. It's a disgrace that you asked me that. Every subsequent write-up: This afternoon, Trump answered reporters' questions....
may 28, 2025, 1:21 pm • 228 30 • view
I have no idea why they put up with it. I expect real reporters to respond to that slanderous shit the way John Avlon did.
may 28, 2025, 6:26 pm • 2 0 • view
Or: Trump: I don’t know. You’ll have to ask my lawyers.
may 28, 2025, 1:36 pm • 8 0 • view
Besides the fact that almost every answer Trump gives a reporter is a lie. You can't take anything he says at face value! How is that helpful to reporting the news?
may 28, 2025, 1:24 pm • 56 4 • view
Everyone knows the job of political reporters is to write that Donald Trump told them it's raining very strongly, and not worry their pretty little heads over the rain's odd yellow color
may 28, 2025, 1:46 pm • 22 1 • view
You’re thinking in terms of news and they are thinking in terms of Content.
may 28, 2025, 1:56 pm • 5 0 • view
As is “political reporters” in the new White House press corps. But absolutely agree with his point. Feed the press and they stay fat and happy with you.
may 28, 2025, 2:44 pm • 1 0 • view
"Makes mouth noises generally unconnected to either the question or reality" takes too may characters.
may 28, 2025, 1:02 pm • 38 1 • view
And the special thing is sometimes in those answers, he clearly has no idea about a US policy or action, e.g. when Hegseth & the Signals decided to bomb the Houthis. Yet, today, we have more discussion of Biden maybe, perhaps, etc not knowing about a decision, when Trump is doing it in plain sight.
may 28, 2025, 1:13 pm • 4 0 • view
Case in freakin' point! This happens a couple times a week! bsky.app/profile/atru...
may 28, 2025, 5:44 pm • 2 0 • view
no problems with Trump's mind, right? No age or deafness issues?
may 29, 2025, 4:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Truly. More like "talk at them and over them while standing in the same physical space"
may 28, 2025, 1:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Not that Trump answers them. But it turns out that evasion and hostility give reporters copy and that’s all they care about
may 28, 2025, 4:40 pm • 0 0 • view
And these are not (what we would consider) political reporters -- they are sycophants and entertainment correspondents, at best, conspiracy-mongers, and prompters (as in cueing him on his talking points).
may 28, 2025, 1:08 pm • 2 0 • view
"Give us narratives! We want narratives!!!!"
may 28, 2025, 2:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Article II, Section 5: Memes and Content bsky.app/profile/jame...
may 28, 2025, 4:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah, and fuck all to whether the figures he cites are accurate or whether the arguments he makes are logical. The shredding of the implicit link between presidents expected to tell the truth and reporters taking what they say at face value began 10 years ago. (Some would say 50.)
may 28, 2025, 1:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Was thinking of the inverse in sports media with a figure like Barry Bonds who basically blacklisted himself by being a dick to the sports press and they've held it against him ever since.
may 28, 2025, 2:29 pm • 1 0 • view
"We the People defer to what the political reporters want."
may 28, 2025, 4:16 pm • 0 0 • view
being able to answer the questions in a coherent fashion should be a requirement for the job. sane-washing should be banned. someone putting on a 'reality' show is what they want. they don't care about the wreckage. 😡
may 28, 2025, 1:33 pm • 0 0 • view
But not truthfully
may 28, 2025, 1:05 pm • 3 0 • view
📌
may 28, 2025, 3:03 pm • 0 0 • view
They're so "impressed" with him because they don't care about anything but the clown show. They're an integral part of his circus and they are extremely pleased with themselves.
may 28, 2025, 1:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Not even answer questions; just be on TV.
may 28, 2025, 1:02 pm • 11 0 • view
It really annoys me when people do pointless or counterproductive stuff just to validate their job’s existence, and access journalism is one of those jobs, IMO.
may 28, 2025, 1:42 pm • 3 1 • view
how else can we choose who ran a better campaign among two candidates, the only respectable political action available to a modern, enlightened citizen?
may 28, 2025, 2:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Doesn’t even have to answer them satisfactorily (cause, uh, listen to the words that come out of his mouth), just give them the pat on the head they’re looking for.
may 28, 2025, 1:01 pm • 6 0 • view
That’s a great point. Trump helps sell newspapers (digital clicks, whatever), so that’s what a lot of media CEOs care about. I don’t remember Politico being so brazen before the 2020s but they have gone downhill, and with this headline—gone deep into the sewers.
may 28, 2025, 6:57 pm • 0 0 • view
The dark deal the media shares with the Jack of Shit is that he will provide them with an engaging narrative by which to sell ads. McCarthy's trip to Mar-a-Lago would never have mattered if the media hadn't been waiting joyfully (like addicts) for the return of the narrative.
may 28, 2025, 4:27 pm • 2 1 • view
Big Zaphod Beeblebrox energy
may 28, 2025, 6:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Starting to think the US needs more separation of power . On head of state that just does all the stupid public appearances but has little political power and one head of government who has political power but doesn't have to engage the dumbass political press . Like King/Queen in the UK for example
may 28, 2025, 2:32 pm • 0 0 • view
But... he doesn't answer the questions. So there's that.
may 28, 2025, 3:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Playbook has gotten markedly more pro-Trump since Jack Blanchard took the helm
may 28, 2025, 5:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Seems like we need two positions, a person who does media spots and can say wild things, and a person who governs the country. A binary executive.
may 28, 2025, 1:04 pm • 7 0 • view
As if the UK were to replace Charles with Boris Johnson.
may 28, 2025, 1:37 pm • 1 0 • view
You’d think they might recognize or care that he doesn’t actually answer any questions, but apparently they care so little about their jobs that they don’t even give a shit whether he acknowledges what their questions were. Might as well just put a microphone on a stand for him and leave the room.
may 28, 2025, 1:05 pm • 15 0 • view
The important part of their job (in their POV) isn't learning information and imparting it to their readers. It's feeling like the most special boys and girls in all the world. Trump is the only one who does that. So they love him.
may 28, 2025, 1:32 pm • 9 0 • view
The most important part of their job is generating content.
may 28, 2025, 1:35 pm • 4 0 • view
I sometimes wonder what they are teaching people in journalism school: Trump is the least informed, least honest, and least articulate source for any information about the administration of the government. There is no point, especially when they refuse to get an answer. It makes everyone dumber.
may 28, 2025, 1:44 pm • 3 0 • view
[goose meme] most accessible to whom?
may 28, 2025, 2:53 pm • 108 2 • view
There is a lot wrong here and I'm not sure Politico knows what scrutiny means if all that matters is the fact of the press appearance and not the underlying substance.
may 28, 2025, 3:47 pm • 28 2 • view
The food is terrible, but the portions are huge!
may 28, 2025, 4:10 pm • 3 0 • view
He's doing presidenting. He just used the president's pardon power to pardon the Chrisleys, fellow reality TV vets. #Priorities
may 28, 2025, 1:36 pm • 1 0 • view
The purpose of the president is to provide content
may 28, 2025, 1:19 pm • 21 1 • view
Creator in Chief
may 28, 2025, 2:45 pm • 0 0 • view
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may 28, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
This is it. I am skeptical of the @mtsw.bsky.social argument that the media as a whole likes Trump and wants him to rule as a king, but there is absolutely a symbiotic relationship when it comes to content: They want it, and he wants to give it to them.
may 28, 2025, 2:51 pm • 6 0 • view
Also, the idea that the American voter is somehow better informed about Trump than they were about Biden because these idiots missed the later despite the clear polling on his age and are enabling the former because he talks to them is gonna break my brain.
may 28, 2025, 2:32 pm • 1 0 • view
This why it makes sense to staff your whole administration with Fox News personalities: their entire job is just being on Fox News.
may 28, 2025, 2:53 pm • 2 0 • view
and help sell their books.
may 28, 2025, 1:05 pm • 3 0 • view
As a Canadian, one of the most egregious angles to the 51st state and annexation talk is that when he was first speaking about it, the press, instead of asking him how he could say such a thing, asked him how he would do it.
may 28, 2025, 1:16 pm • 4 0 • view
POLITICO is joking??? Trump is not responsive in any meaningful way to the American People. Press is berated for asking relevant questions! Trump is all about constantly attention-seeking, he lies, boasts! He’s an evil entity. Agent of chaos and destruction. And: Greedy as hell, pay for play.
may 28, 2025, 11:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Politico must simply equate a leader babbling falsehoods and speaking truthfully as comparable exercises... without recognizing that freedom of speech was intended to protect the citizenry from the government, not to protect the government from its citizenry.
may 28, 2025, 3:31 pm • 0 0 • view
“every American voter can see where he’s at.” He does not make sense. He could livestream his every thought but if those thoughts aren’t coherent I’m not any more informed for that
may 28, 2025, 3:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Bad news is good news when you’re in the news business. Spectacle, controversy, corruption, crazy POTUS and cabinet members: it’s all good for business. Biden was boring.
may 28, 2025, 3:22 pm • 3 0 • view
and the nation was all the better for it.
may 28, 2025, 3:28 pm • 4 0 • view
They are fawning over his "television ratings" (which is what Trump wants) instead of him ruining the lives of millions of Americans. I'll bet he posts something in all caps sometime this summer declaring he deserves and Emmy for all his "performances"
may 28, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
This is local apartment fire reporting gone national. Yea, it’s train wrecks every day but it’s a lot more interesting than the boring policy stuff that doesn’t interest younger healthy reporters that make plenty of money.
may 28, 2025, 4:41 pm • 6 0 • view
Or who are long-game careerists looking to make their bones with corporate swine.
may 28, 2025, 4:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Impressive stuff is doing a lot of work there. The guy who screams at local city council meetings about fluoride being a plot by lizards is available every day too.
may 28, 2025, 1:03 pm • 14 0 • view
Politico used to be decent when they first started, now they are just another right wing shill.
may 28, 2025, 4:56 pm • 0 0 • view
So, being on TV and rambling incoherent and evil stuff is presidential. Doing good things as president and staying off TV bc I don't know, you are busy being president is bad. My God, we are doomed.
may 28, 2025, 1:55 pm • 0 0 • view
"Sure the tv appearances are terrible, but the portions are great! It makes writing copy so easy!"
may 28, 2025, 1:51 pm • 2 0 • view
But all of those interviews are with neo-nazi outlets. It takes nothing to "be accessible" if you only let people into your press pool who are going to insist, despite all appearances, that you are fitter than ever and clearly a genius.
may 28, 2025, 1:10 pm • 3 0 • view
TV country, TV president, TV government, everything is slop, everything is drama, they knowingly destroy anything and everything, peoples lives to ensure nobody but the extreme wealthy even have a potential future worth living. We're exiting the roof stage kicking, screaming, and shitting ourselves.
may 28, 2025, 4:37 pm • 1 0 • view
so impressive! bsky.app/profile/poli...
may 28, 2025, 3:28 pm • 1 0 • view
It’s not hard to be the most accessible president in history” when you’re just going to get out there and lie with no pushback.
may 28, 2025, 1:02 pm • 24 0 • view
Or close himself off to all but fawners.
may 28, 2025, 1:53 pm • 11 0 • view
Exactly, I think Jake Tapper moderating that one debate he had with Biden made it pretty clear. It’s very easy to make the smart one look like an idiot when you’re gushing over every dumb thing the moron says like it’s gospel.
may 28, 2025, 1:55 pm • 8 0 • view
A tisket, a tasket! Trump has gathered 25% of America in his basket.
may 28, 2025, 2:00 pm • 1 0 • view
America has been charmed by a louse and his followers. The little louses were already there, but they needed a bigly, alpha louse in order to start their parade in earnest.
may 28, 2025, 1:58 pm • 1 0 • view
That and people were so used to guardrails you know guarding they didn’t think of the possibility that the entirety of the GOP and most of the SCOTUS would allow it this to happen.
may 28, 2025, 2:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Congress is the opposite of progress, 'tis said. And most of it is also in Trump's basket.
may 28, 2025, 2:22 pm • 1 0 • view
(charmed or deadened, largely)
may 28, 2025, 1:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Without any "do tell!" irony
may 28, 2025, 1:56 pm • 3 0 • view
“…every American voter can see where he’s at.” Yeah, we can observe his limited thought and vocabulary, his rants…it’s all out there for us to witness. Like no one has ever seen!
may 29, 2025, 1:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Sometimes rambling and erratic??? Sometimes? I'd be hard pressed to list 5 times where he's NOT "rambling and erratic."
may 28, 2025, 6:38 pm • 4 0 • view
Another name for it is media whore.
may 28, 2025, 6:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Follow the money - who owns Politico? "Politico is owned by Axel Springer SE, a German media company that acquired it in October 2021 for over $1 billion."
may 28, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Lmao, he's so "accessible" that the real media was kicked out of the newsroom for child SA fans and beanie enthusiast Tim Pool.
may 28, 2025, 1:48 pm • 5 0 • view
“The Joe Biden Experience” is the worst cover band that ever played on a Monday night at The Stone Balloon.
may 28, 2025, 1:14 pm • 1 0 • view
FUCK POLITICO
may 28, 2025, 7:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Politico is not a news organization. It is a clickbait farm
may 29, 2025, 2:31 am • 1 0 • view
One reason a lot of these guys hated Biden was his unwillingness to engage with them. Trump can say the most idiotic, mush-brained drivel and they love it anyway because it fills the airwaves and increases their readership.
may 28, 2025, 1:00 pm • 117 3 • view
Yeah, and they're perfectly willing to fawn all over him if that's what it takes to get him to answer question.
may 28, 2025, 3:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Sounds like a good point. It's a bit sad to me that Biden didn't jump down MAGA's throat because then that might have given Politico something rightly salacious to go at. America needed more than mere classy politics as normal. It needed to be primed to reject fascism.
may 28, 2025, 1:50 pm • 1 0 • view
The Times morning news letter has been Trump themed around 80% of the time since Jan 20. They’re trying to sell papers on Trump and it’s starting to get really boring. It’s already at the 2019 point when people were tired of the Trump show.
may 28, 2025, 1:04 pm • 43 0 • view
To them, somehow this is evidence that he is being subject to scrutiny. This kind of news/reporting has negative value to the reader.
may 28, 2025, 1:06 pm • 1 0 • view
I’m so sick of this shit.
may 28, 2025, 2:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Sounds like he wrote it himself…
may 28, 2025, 8:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah, not too impressed with this take from Politico.
may 28, 2025, 3:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow ‼️ Didn't Político used to be populated by journalists? WTAF HAPPENED? This is dreck‼️ Nobody should pay them any mind 🔥
may 28, 2025, 5:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Feels like some network heads feel like fascism makes for good tv. I mean… utter devastation of our country aside, they’re not wrong.
may 28, 2025, 4:25 pm • 0 0 • view
his weekly list of pardons is front page news enough. and don't tell me this stuff "gets old" because they sure liked printing the same thing about Biden's age every week. when there isn't a scandal, make one. when there are too many, throw your hands up, overwhelmed by the enormity of it.
may 28, 2025, 1:13 pm • 2 0 • view
How is it important how many times Trump appears in public if, when he does, he just lies?
may 28, 2025, 1:59 pm • 1 1 • view
Given that the actual results of Trump being in the White House have been much worse _both times_ than the actual results of Biden being in the White House, it's hard for me to see how "the Joe Biden experience" hammers home any positive about _Trump_.
may 28, 2025, 1:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Politico jumped the shark and shit the bed years ago.
may 28, 2025, 2:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Wow. If that ain't "quantity over quantity" I don't know what is.
may 28, 2025, 1:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow. Thanks autocorrect.
may 28, 2025, 1:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Counter point: It needs context but is likely accurate (I don't know). Biden even early rarely appeared on camera or took questions on the fly. This measurement is important when you are following the president like a fawning puppy dog. BUT! I agree with you and below that it needs context
may 28, 2025, 2:24 pm • 4 0 • view
Unfortunately, this is a reality that a lot of democrats refuse to come to terms with: putting yourself in front of cameras on a regular basis signals that you are active and present, even if you are terrible at your actual job.
may 28, 2025, 1:04 pm • 3 0 • view
...FUCK POLITICO ...
may 29, 2025, 4:22 am • 0 0 • view
It's genuinely weird that it doesn't occur to them that he *should*.
may 28, 2025, 3:20 pm • 3 0 • view
From Tim Pool to Storm Front, all corners!
may 28, 2025, 2:16 pm • 1 0 • view
@politico.com sucks.
may 28, 2025, 3:57 pm • 0 0 • view
It's not about access. It's a revival of The Apprentice. It's a reallity TV show.
may 28, 2025, 1:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Politico is lashing out at whatever they can here about the Trump trouble without lashing out at the rotten tangerine itself. It's a game. America is, hopefully to God, waking up to the game and its actual parameters.
may 28, 2025, 1:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Never has the nickname "Tiger Beat on the Potomac" been more appropriate
may 28, 2025, 3:23 pm • 1 0 • view
True journalists must have a heluva time staying honest under large monied employers. Kissing the ring seems to be universal in the msm biosphere.
may 28, 2025, 2:59 pm • 0 0 • view
“Most tv appearances” means “most accessible” how exactly?
may 28, 2025, 1:56 pm • 1 0 • view
I lost IQ points reading that screen capture. How the number of times on camera translates to a successful presidency in anyone's mind explains a lot about our current slide into autocracy.
may 28, 2025, 2:30 pm • 9 0 • view
Also, every American voter can't see where he's at because he lies all the time! Constantly! Effortlessly!
may 28, 2025, 1:03 pm • 36 1 • view
(And they don’t print what he says, since it is a mosh mash of garbled nonsense. Instead they print what they think he means, all the while complaining that they can’t put themselves in his head to figure out why he lies constantly)
may 28, 2025, 3:03 pm • 2 0 • view
You see, Aubrey, he's talking, which generates *content.* Whether it's true is minimally important at best.
may 28, 2025, 1:05 pm • 21 0 • view
Also he doesn't seem to know where he is half the time.
may 29, 2025, 6:54 am • 0 0 • view
Or else those who can are being sneered at by Politico as though it didn't matter.
may 28, 2025, 1:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Not setting the bar very high.
may 28, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck Politico. It has been dead to me for years. Trash journalism.
may 28, 2025, 1:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Who cares if he’s doing his job well? Think of all the *access* he’s giving!
may 28, 2025, 9:31 pm • 5 0 • view
DT loves the limelight and talking to cameras that don't talk back. He thrives on attention; just don't ask him anything complicated, that's when he starts his lying act.
may 28, 2025, 2:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump says “I don’t know” a lot to reporters when they ask him questions he should know the answers to. Here’s why that’s bad for Biden.
may 28, 2025, 1:01 pm • 98 6 • view
Nailed it.
may 28, 2025, 1:11 pm • 14 0 • view
I think we can be jealous of this one thing. If the president talks 80 percent of days, there probably won’t be whole weeks of parsing his statements. Remember after the debate when we begged Biden to do more press to take the focus off of each appearance?
may 28, 2025, 1:14 pm • 2 0 • view
His entire cabinet’s mission is to be “on camera” daily. Noem is clearly the winner with her “Go Back” ads. Work is optional-just ask the FBI
may 28, 2025, 2:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Hilarious that they disregard that he does a format (TV) that doesn't really allow an interviewer to doggedly chase a point due to time constraints. When will he sit down with >you?
may 28, 2025, 2:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Where he insulted them, all of them, especially the ones he doesn't like their questions... More and more, journalists have very low opinions of themselves and seemingly don't even know what their jobs are. "Just gimme some 'bulls...' to write on, anything is fine."
may 28, 2025, 2:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Awful! F you @politico.com
may 28, 2025, 4:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Beltway media already in their Hunger Games era.
may 28, 2025, 2:00 pm • 2 1 • view
When the fish stinks, look to the head ! Politico got bought and it’s starting to show.
may 29, 2025, 9:50 am • 0 0 • view
Why would Politico praise Trump in this way???
may 29, 2025, 12:47 am • 0 0 • view
To the national political press, "presidenting" successfully just means giving the press more access. The actual work of the presidency, to them, doesn't matter.
may 28, 2025, 2:01 pm • 6 1 • view
Another one bites the dust. Bye, bye media pie.
may 28, 2025, 4:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Being on tv = accessible?
may 29, 2025, 4:04 am • 2 0 • view
$$$$$access
may 28, 2025, 6:51 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s pretty clear that Stephen Miller and a couple of other Nazi assholes are the actual “president.”
may 28, 2025, 2:27 pm • 2 1 • view
The media are so conditioned for an imperial Presidency that they unconsciously advocate for an elected King and disparage the constitutional order. We must reform and constrain the Imperial Presidency and change the media and public expectations of the Office.
may 28, 2025, 2:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Most accessible? He and his henchwoman KKKaroline regularly ban entire media outlets from press events.
may 28, 2025, 3:14 pm • 0 0 • view
80% hit rate also implies that he sometimes is coherent, talks about something other than himself, or says something that resembles reality
may 30, 2025, 1:54 am • 2 0 • view
“Downright unpleasant?” The sanewashing industry lumbers along
may 28, 2025, 2:18 pm • 0 0 • view
So gross. The media is just toast I guess.
may 29, 2025, 12:05 pm • 1 0 • view
"On course" and weekends is quite apt to put in a sentence together considering the frequency of golfing. I'm glad the media is happy with the views/clicks they get out of following him around, not asking any difficult questions out of fear of getting booted, and just amplifying bullshit nonsense.
may 28, 2025, 1:23 pm • 3 0 • view
Images of Trump on golf courses during weekends are not "media appearances" and shouldn't count. His spokesbimbo Leavitt would categorize all that as "personal time."
may 28, 2025, 2:32 pm • 4 0 • view
But he’s so accessible — to the handpicked media outlets allowed in the room with him.
may 28, 2025, 1:12 pm • 2 0 • view
may 28, 2025, 2:47 pm • 2 2 • view
“You may not like what Trump has to say, but the important thing to remember is he likes us, he really really likes us”
may 28, 2025, 1:26 pm • 11 0 • view
like a dog beater really really likes dogs
may 28, 2025, 1:54 pm • 3 0 • view
And part of me was actually rooting for Trump to spend more time doing presidential things, given the fact that he's a lame duck and has no excuse to waste time on campaigning. But he loves campaigning more than anything, so forget about that theory. 2026 and 2028 rallies golf rallies golf rallies.
may 28, 2025, 2:53 pm • 0 0 • view
"Scrutiny"! !!!!! They want to lollygag and think they're doing their jobs. Could just be that Joe was spending time doing his real job, not entertaining the drooling masses of "reporters".
may 28, 2025, 1:57 pm • 2 1 • view
It was better last time when he “did the job” of president by golfing (that dude took so much time off, anyone screaming about Biden working limited hours is fucking delusional). I’m guessing his cognitive and physical decline since then doesn’t allow him to golf as much so he’s bored
may 29, 2025, 1:42 am • 1 0 • view
"Most Accessible??" 🤦🤦🤦🤦
may 28, 2025, 5:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Politico only rates performance style. That’s it.
may 28, 2025, 5:42 pm • 0 0 • view
They’ve got all they ever wanted from Trump, an endless stream of content.
may 28, 2025, 5:33 pm • 1 0 • view
the biggest job for the krasnov administration is catapulting the propaganda. fuck politico. this is not about access FFS
may 28, 2025, 2:58 pm • 2 0 • view
This is embarrassing and ridiculous. Has Politico LISTENED to any of his many media appearances??? So because he likes to talk on camera, ipso facto he's doing his job???? WTAF
may 28, 2025, 3:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Putting Biden on camera for 2 hours a day during the last half of his term would certainly have been “impressive stuff”
may 28, 2025, 1:53 pm • 1 0 • view
If preening for the camera and making rambling speeches were the president’s main duties, he’d be the best prez in history.
may 28, 2025, 2:19 pm • 1 0 • view
If he's not on TV, he's playing golf or hosting crappy dinners. He's def not working.
may 28, 2025, 3:47 pm • 1 0 • view
What “scrutiny?” No reporter challenges Trump when he bloviates lies!
may 28, 2025, 4:40 pm • 4 0 • view
Politico of late does stealth hit pieces or stealth brownnosing and either way they're Trump-leaning and the fact they had to defend subscriptions cancelled by DOGE is no coincidence so their spine (and values) are clearly attached to their shareholder value maxim.
may 28, 2025, 1:24 pm • 5 0 • view
yeah we can definitely see where he's at
may 28, 2025, 3:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Trump is "The Biggest Slacker!"
may 28, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Announcing something and then unannouncing the same thing counts as 2 "hits" So Hahahahaha 🤣
may 28, 2025, 4:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Every American voter can see where he's at? Really? We have NO visibility into what DOGE has done or why. And the Trumpies are doing everything they can to prevent us from finding out. Trump has a dinner party for his meme coin buyers-- which was really a bribe fest-- and we can't even get a 1/2
may 28, 2025, 1:24 pm • 7 1 • view
list of the attendees. The Trumpies have shipped people off to El Salvador for permanent incarceration and neither their relatives nor their lawyers can speak to them. Nobody can tell us what new tariffs will be imposed next week, or why-- not even Trump. They do everything in the dark. 2/2
may 28, 2025, 1:24 pm • 7 1 • view
They can’t see past their own access.
may 28, 2025, 4:37 pm • 0 0 • view
It's about bread and circuses, not good governance. The more the president turns himself into a spectacle, the more political media can emulate the successes of entertainment media and gossip rags. Drama, scandal and intrigue sell more than good government.
may 28, 2025, 3:41 pm • 1 0 • view
How many of Trump’s media appearances are from a golf setting?!?
may 28, 2025, 3:58 pm • 0 0 • view
“Lamentable attempt to ban AP” 🤦♂️ yeah that was “unfortunate” Yeesh! Aside from that Mrs Lincoln…
may 28, 2025, 2:51 pm • 1 0 • view
And when he’s on tv, he’s providing no actual substance, and just repetitive blather
may 28, 2025, 2:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Politico also had an article recently that made it sound like Canadian Liberals were already looking to oust Carney... Because of a vote being taken on whether to adopt the Reform Act rules. Look at the difference in these headlines:
may 28, 2025, 1:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Ignore propaganda
may 28, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
He's providing content for Politico, and what could he possibly do that's more important than that? He makes the Washington game exciting, and who knows or cares what happens to people who aren't in that game?
may 28, 2025, 2:32 pm • 6 0 • view
📌
may 28, 2025, 3:22 pm • 0 0 • view
When the goal is only about access, it all makes sense.
may 28, 2025, 6:47 pm • 1 0 • view
He's super-corrupt, but at least he's talking to reporters about it.
may 28, 2025, 1:05 pm • 4 0 • view
by using “hit rate” that blurb is literally saying every day the president is not on TV is a miss
may 28, 2025, 1:03 pm • 4 0 • view
Promotion works over policy now. We all made fun of Trump's McDonalds and garbage stunts, but the low info voters love the performative stuff and it breaks through. And sure, Trump just babbles at his press conferences, but how many people see him on TV on mute and just think the guy's working?
may 28, 2025, 1:11 pm • 2 0 • view
What happened to Politico?
may 28, 2025, 1:52 pm • 2 0 • view
They love Trump because it’s just “set it and forget it” rage bait. All they have to do is uncritically broadcast his rants and the furious engagement makes them money. Who needs journalists?
may 28, 2025, 1:10 pm • 7 0 • view