Bcuz he lies as he breathes, bcuz he lies a thousand times every day, and bcuz he’s been doing this forever, the media no longer calls him out on his lies. They stopped doing that a long time ago. Shame on the media. They’ve normalized his lying. They’ve let him destroy truth.
And on top of it plans to prosecute the people who publish different statistics.
I get it that they know if they contradict anything he says, they'll lose their access, but then what's the point of being there? They may as well just place a voice recorder on the chair, go out for a cup of coffee and pick up the voice recorder at the end of the press conference.
Intelligence and courage seem to be at all time lows in our elected officials and in mainstream news media.
Sadly, it's because most people are cowards and have no backbone. They're simply afraid of confrontation.
As soon as fat ass opens his mouth, he lies. Everybody knows it even Magas know it.
Not true. He now cuts off access.
Why do any of the WH press pool and WHCA still have their jobs? Are they paid just to nod their heads in agreement with all the lies he spews? Why? Are they all just gutless cowards? What say you @cnn.com @kasie.bsky.social @kaitlancollins.bsky.social @jaketapper.bsky.social?
It’s not a true press briefing. It’s a handful of Trump sycophants who ask questions already approved. The Dems should immediately hold a press conference after these abhorrent Trump ramblings and fact check every Trump statement in real time including all his “senior” moments. The dementia is real.
The White House Press Corp is now a transcription service and Trump fluffing service, nothing more. No journalists remain. Just insiders there for the travel and the perks, and they will do nothing that threatens that access. They've decided autocracy is not so bad if you are on the inside.
The press pool has changed dramatically. Half of them are now sympathetic sycophants who’ve been given access they’ve never had before. The other half (“legacy”) are too afraid of losing access so they very rarely push back.
Hell, the AP is still stuck on the sidelines.
Truly the WH press corps is captured almost entirely as are all the sycophants who bow and scrape all around him. Tragic and embarrassing as Hell. Not going to end well.
Well, if challenges get you booted then you can’t report at all. Not that that isn’t cowardly though
TSF is a pathological LIAR! I don’t remember when MSM ever confronted him on any of his lies, misinformation or conspiracy theories. They can’t do it now because their oligarch boss owns the media. They do not allow any negative information about TSF.
He owns all of mainstream media now. He has threatened, bullied and bribed them.
When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there, but it is, still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid. Chernoybl and now the US.
Fuck MSM. They are partly responsible for the 🍊 💩’s “resurgence”.
Legislature, Executive, Judiciary and Media already significantly compromised. 3 years to go.
Lawrence O’Donnell calls them out all the time for their complete lack of professionalism. Everything is allowed to slide to keep access. Disgusting.
Not one reporter asked, if crimes been so bad for so long why was nothing done during his first term
They and their bosses/owners are too afraid of him.
I want to believe that the cognitive dissonance between Don-don's lies about prices and inflation versus reality will soon serve to confirm that his lies about the Epstein Files are the rule, not the exception, in his Maga cult's minds.
“Shame on the media”.
Press Core per MTG
I'm baffled at those who normalize Trump's incompetence. It's hurting the entire country.
The unabomber told his uncle it was ok, so why not..
It's the nomenclature that people are getting hung up on. While the jobs of those MSM people have changed, they're still called a "Press Corps". Given their actual job description, the correct name for those people is the "Stenographer Corps".
The Main Stream media a a BIG part of what is wrong with the USA.
They are afraid of losing their access. They know that he will do to the rest what he did to the AP and no one will stop him. The MSM has become almost as corrupt as the Republican party.
Plus he stacked the well with “reporters” that won’t call him out on anything.
They have NEVER called him out on his lies. If anything, they have backed him up on everything he says, even if it's total BS.
If his lips are moving and his hands are playing an invisible accordion…
Also because they purged the "press corp" of anyone with actual integrity & filled it with loyal buttmunches like MTGs boyfriend & "influencers" who are asking "questions".
It’s a waste of time mourning the death of the mainstream media. It’s dead. Focus on building up effective independent media.
The media are owned by extremely wealthy people who are beholden to an authoritarian. Journalism is DEAD.
The lies about his first inauguration crowd size should have been the first thing main stream media called out 🤬
The media will also normalize troops in our streets.
But lord let it be a democrat and they’re all over it. I fucking hate the media in this country. The media has taken sides because they made Biden look bad during his term, but Trump is a fucking “golden child” to them cause they love all the drama and didn’t get much of it under Biden which is why
They worked so hard to make Biden look bad so that the population in America can say that Biden did nothing and caused high inflation and prices and that Trump would be the savior smh I swear the media is complicit in all of this!
Turn main stream media off. They are not doing their job to investigate the truth. Those who want the lies thats their choice. I want the hard truth, not fake bullshit. Trump been lying since the 80s
The WHCA definitely doesn’t deserve a dinner next year. Not even sure they should get a snack time.
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Stupid is as stupid does!
Plus they’ve kicked out of the WH press pool many of the serious news organizations
His press core is bought and paid for, no questions, no follow-ups get you NO ANSWERS
We should stop calling them the press corps and start calling them the audience.
I think the media should call him out on his lies. HOWEVER They media has called him out on so many of his lies in the past. AND NO ONE CARED!
Well, none of those journalists want to get sent to Alligator Alcatraz, do they?
They should refuse to put cameras in front of him. He would lose his mind. The silence would kill him.
Why exactly would his billionaire owners want the cameras off of him? What we need to realize is that the media as you think of it is absolutely complicit in all of this.
Yep. Corporate media has been complicit & has normalized felon for decades. Corporate media is owned by rich donors who've given money to felon & the GOP.
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A majority of the media has chosen money over people. They fear fines, lawyer fees, court costs and would rather go along with his games than help defend this country. The small thought of not making a bigger profit than the previous year is their biggest nightmare.
Any reporter who has the guts to call out the constant lying was removed from the White House press corps a long time ago.
Trump supporters might speak out against him, but they will support his replacement.
I don’t remember the media ever calling out his lies. It’s been this way all along
It would be more appropriate to think of the White House press corps as an arm of the Press Secretary's office.
I don’t recall the @nytimes.com ever calling him out for a lie.
Nazi press!
The Fox College of Journalism is churning them out.
Well, the WH press ain't what it used to be.
What's new, the media, owned by billionaires, are complicite in all this jingoistic crap being spewed forth.
White House press corps is mainly right-wing podcasters now. Regular reporters have been muzzled by Trump and their own bosses. Too afraid to ask tough questions.
Do you mean the same media which cheered us into 20+ years of war in the mid-east so they could increase ratings? That media? They are happy to have him; he gives them something to talk about every day without them having to do real reporting.
They need to start pushing back they will get kicked out because Pedofuhrer can’t be wrong but keep doing it
The US media is lost, and will be of no help for fear of retribution.
He must go….
Is that due (at least in part) to allowing mostly MAGA-friendly media into the Oval Office? There may be some non-sycophantic media (who deserve some shame) yet I suspect many attendees have proven their loyalty.
Shaming them hasn't worked.