"Fake News" - The President versus The New York Times

At 8:30 AM (EDT), on 29 July 2018, the President of the United States tweeted from his usual account (Donald J Trump  @realDonaldTrump)  one of normal comments.  It read:  "Had a very good and interesting meeting at White House with A G Sulzberger, Publisher of the New York Times. Spent much time talking about the vast amounts of Fake News being put out by the media & how that Fake News has morphed into phrase, "Enemy of the People." Sad!"  (The capitalizations are the President's own, not mine.)

  At 9:01 AM (EDT), on 29 July 2018, a tweet appeared from NYTimes Communications @NYTimesPR reading: "Statement of A. G. Sulzberger, Publisher, The New York Times, in response to President Trump's tweet about their meeting  bit.ly/2LHSFoB"   Following the link, one finds:

"Statement of A. G. Sulzberger, Publisher, The New York Times, in Response to President Trump's Tweet About Their Meeting

   Earlier this month, A.G. received a request from the White House to meet with President Trump.  This is not unusual; there has been a long tradition of New York Times publishers holding such meetings with presidents and other public figures who have concerns about coverage.
  On July 20th, A. G. went to the White House, accompanied by James Bennet, who oversees the editorial page of The Times.  Mr. Trump's aides requested that the meeting be off the record, which has also been the practice for such meetings in the past.
   But with Mr. Trump's tweet this morning, he has put the meeting on the record, so A. G. has decided to respond to the president's characterization of their conversation, based on detailed notes A. G. and James took.

Statement of A.G. Sulzberger, Publisher, The New York Times:

My main purpose for accepting the meeting was to raise concerns about the president's deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric.

I told the president directly that I thought that his language was not just divisive but increasingly dangerous.

I told him that although the phrase "fake news" is untrue and harmful, I am far more concerned about his labeling journalists "the enemy of the people." I warned that this inflammatory language is contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence.

I repeatedly stressed that this is particularly true abroad, where the president's rhetoric is being used by some regimes to justify sweeping crackdowns on journalists. I warned that it was putting lives at risk, that it was undermining the democratic ideals of our nation, and that it was eroding one of our country's greatest exports: a commitment to free speech and a free press.

Throughout the conversation I emphasized that if President Trump, like previous presidents, was upset with coverage of his administration he was of course free to tell the world. I made clear repeatedly that I was not asking for him to soften his attacks on The Times if he felt our coverage was unfair. Instead, I implored him to reconsider his broader attacks on journalism, which I believe are dangerous and harmful to our country."

A little over four hours later, the President came came with a flurry four tweets, connected by a series of three dots behind and before.  At 1:09 PM (EDT) on 29 July 2018 from the account of Donald J Trump  @realDonaldTrump :

"When the media - driven by their Trump Derangement Syndrome - reveals internal deliberations of our government, it truly puts the lives of many, not just journalists, at risk! Very unpatriotic! Freedom of the press also comes with a responsibility to report the news...

... accurately. 90% of media coverage of my Administration is negative, despite the tremendously positive results we are achieving, it's no surprise that confidence in the media is at an all time low! I will not allow our great country to be sold out by anti-Trump haters in the...

... dying newspaper industry. No matter how much they try to distract and cover it up, our country is making great progress under my leadership and I will never stop fighting for the American people! As an example, the failing New York Times...

... and the Amazon Washington Post do nothing but write bad stories on very positive achievements - and the will not change!"

I loudly and support the freedom of the press and the right to freedom of speech!  Too bad the President does NOT.   -  Sad!

Woe Is Me....

I've been taking care of a house where I have no internet connection, so my apologies for not blogging sooner. What the heck is going on in our world today?
   We - the United States - has been dealing with the hurricane natural disasters in Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Georgia, the US Virgin Islands, and in Puerto Rico.  Now there's a seemingly rational, older man, aged 64, who stands up in two 32nd-story windows at a hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, and he shoots freely, using an automatic weapon, into a crowd of 22,000 people gathered for a Sunday night music festival.  As the police have said, "it was like shooting fish in a barrel."
   I am so very angry!  And there is no one thing, no one person, no one place that I can direct my anger toward.  I am also incredibly sad.  To realize that, so far, 59 unique individuals have lost their life to a single gunman.  A man who killed and injured hundreds of people, who, apparently, turned a gun upon himself, and chested people out of answers to their questions....  Why that night?  Why those people?  Why shoot anyone? What was he feeling?  What reason had he to perform such a gruesome exercise? 
   When I sat down to type this, the death count was at 59, with 527 other people being treated or hospitalized, for gunshot wounds, shrapnel wounds, and trample and stampede damages to their bodies.  It just seems so incredible to me.  I can not understand wanting to kill, injure, maim and frighten people.  It is just beyond my imagination.
    I will be mentioning the ignorant, pompous ass who is now residing in the White House.  I cannot avoid it, even though I wish I could totally ignore him.  He, and his evil ilk, are showing me who my real friends are.  People I have known for 55 years or more are slowly being removed from my friends list - people I grew up with and cared about.  But they are now people who run around shouting, "Fake News!," and carrying on about "Killary -"  wake up. people, the election was over 10 months ago.  Your doggie nugget is in charge - and America is sinking fast.  I shared a British newspaper article saying that Three-Star General Buchanan says that the devastation he has seen in Puerto Rico is the worst he's ever seen - even Katrina, where he worked as a logistics adviser.  One of my (now former) friends has sent up a wail that the entire article, quotes, and photos are "Fake News!" 
    I am sorry to tell you, honey, that the current White House administration seeds, reaps, and sows all of it's own fake news, with quite a bit of help from Russia, the Kremlin, and Vladimir Putin.

     I hope that I am never in the presence of the 45th Idiot.  I wouldn't be able to decide whether to urinate on him, fart on him, defecate on him, spit on him, or set him on fire....

    He is killing our great country with his sheer idiocy, his lack of compassion and feeling, and his desire to make a Big Bang with North Korea.  We might be facing the end of the world as we know it.

A Fake Story About a Fake President At a Fake G-20 Summit

Here's a fake story about a fake President who calls well-researched news fake....  However, parts of this story are true, and none of the photos have been manipulated.

The President of the United is actually a puppet.  He is currently inhabited by Dominar Rygel XVI, who is the deposed ruler of the Hynerian empire, which has over 600 billion subjects.  The Dominar is known to be selfish, a coward, a liar, a thief, and an opportunist, and he loves to frell....

Recently, the fake President traveled to Hamburg, Germany, via London and Warsaw.  In London, a government ​limousine was waiting, parked at the bottom of the airplane steps.  The fake President wandered off in another direction, seemingly totally blind to the huge armored deluxe sedan that was sitting 6 feet away from him.

   In Warsaw, the pube-hair turbaned idiot was asked if he believed that Russia had interfered in the election that saw him made President.  He waffled - well, he said, he had been told that the governmental spy agencies, about 3 or 4 of them, had tried to say that.  Did he believe Russia had done it, he was again asked.  Well yes, Russia did it.  But, then it could have been Russia, or it could have been any other country or person.  (In America, we know that he famously believes it was a 400-pound man sitting on his bed in a basement - sounds like he knows something, eh?)  The leader of Poland had assured the fake President that he would be greeted by cheering crowds, and he was - by people bussed into Warsaw from all over the country, who were given a daily stipend, and who were supplied with both United States flags and a few Confederate battle flags.  (Disgusting.)

   Upon arrival in Hamburg for the G20 Summit, the man known for owning so many luxury hotels and golf courses around the world found out that he did not have a place to stay, to sleep, to eat, or to relieve himself.  The upper-echelon hotels and motels had all been booked for months.  So the Cheeto-head decided to blame the Obama White House staff, and then threw himself upon the mercy of the German people.

  Poor Angela Merkel!  She had to agree to put up the US entourage in the German Senate guest

​house, with the orange P using the US Consulate staff as his maids and service staff.  The disgrace of having the orange bobble-head stay in the government house was almost too much for Chancellor Merkel to bear....

     And, of course, everyone was waiting for the arrival of Vladimir Putin - especially the fake President.

   Once the P and his Slovenian Slut arrived at the villa, which was built in 1868, he kept saying, "Everything's going to be fine.  Look, they told me the interior is decorated in bright colors, mostly white, so it'll be like we're in DC."

   In the meantime, a great many protesters were gathering for the Summit in the city.  There were many dressed completely in black, covered with long black trench coats, black masks, and black hats.  More than 120 German police were injured by the protesters during the first 24 hours. But there were also more whimsical protesters in Hamburg, too.

   Unfortunately, other meetings and speeches with other members of the G20 governments had to handled first, and the fake Pres looked a little frustrated as time went on without him sighting his paramour.   With the P searching the room for, and finally seeing "his Vladi", Emmanuel Macron seemed quite amused....

Other scheduled meetings intervened, and the P wasn't happy to be told, jokingly, that his pube-hair turbaned hairstyle made others think of swallows' nests - which was making someone else feel hungry...  

​Then the men who like delicately flavored foods shared a laugh, with Cheeto-head on the outside of the joke, as 

usual.

After looking at the scheduled  meeting times, the fake P cuts Chancellor Merkel out of the crowd and tells her in no uncertain terms that he will need more time with Putin.  "Got that?  I need more time with Vladi!"   Merkel was
taken aback.

   

      ​Finally, the appointed time has arrived - the first, openly seen greeting:

And, before their private meeting, a pulse-taking handshake, mentally asking, "Are you as excited as I am?"

​

   After the meeting originally scheduled for 30 minutes, but lasting 136 minutes (2 hours and 16) - satisfaction is
clearly seen:

    And someone, who shall remain un-named, thought he got the best of it....

​

   A while later, the P honestly tells Prime Minister Trudeau and Chancellor Merkel that he truly hopes they'll be having a big steak with fries, lots of ketchup, and a chocolate cake for their big fancy supper.

They inform him it will be birds-nest soup, followed by sauerkraut and wienerschnitzel....

​and the fake President is, again, unhappy.​

    After the fancy supper, it was time to get into glad-rags and go to a concert - the P wasn't happy and neither was his purely-dressed baby-momma, because

they knew there would be a meeting between the P's two lovers - and Vladi doesn't like to be the shortest man.  (The orange queef removes his shoes with lifts when they're together.)

​

   The following morning, the fake President wanted to get word to his Vladi that, even though he spent the night in the same house with his woman, Vladi is the best!

Then the love-besotted "Commander in Chief" fell asleep while dreaming of Vladi's powerful hands while in a public meeting.  Prime Minister May had to awaken him after he farted and then snored loudly.   She, like Queen Victoria, was not amused.

 

    Having shat himself while farting and dreaming of Vladi, the orange P couldn't attend one of the major G20 meetings, having to go back to the German Senate house to shower and change his clothes.  So he sent his daughter, Ivanka Kushner, to sit in his place and represent the United States of America.  Chancellor Merkel looked at Ivanka, and felt ill herself, having to leave the meeting hastily.

      What was extremely amazing to me was seeing the daughter-that-Daddy-lusts-for ​sitting in the meeting for the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative ("We-Fi") that the G20 and International Monetary Fund have set up to assist women start companies in developing countries.  I was amazed because of the world's knowledge that the Ivanka pays her workers in the Far East less than $1 per week for 60 hours of work.

When Ivanka proudly stated that she paid top wages for excellent work in her companies, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde almost swallowed her tongue, and had a difficult time controlling her laughter.  Poor Ivanka didn't realize the joke was on her.

And so, the fake President of the United States continues to see himself as a huge raptor, a man of real instinctual decisions, one who will be remembered in American history as a true giant of statesmanship, an intellectual equal to Aristotle, and a man who is a venerable historian.

Those of us who see what he really is, who do not fall easily under his personal glamour and the thrall of his power, know that he is a puppet of Vladimir Putin and Russia.  And we hear Hilary Clinton calling him a puppet in a Presidential debate - and, then, somehow, hear Dominar Rygel XVI squeal loudly:

The End

(of my fake story - but, then again, maybe not...)​

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