Yup….
For the last four years he has been the gift the keeps on giving….
Even now in dealing with his loss of the election?
And ongoing stupidity…
He commands their attention…
The newest effort for him to hold on to their heads is trying to sell a 2024 re-election bid….
Joe Biden is so ?….
Boring?
Hmmmm?
Washington has its own strange forms of symbiotic relationship and one became evident in two separate interviews by the president of the United States and the president of CNN.
Both effectively admitted that they needed each other. Donald Trump needs the media as a weapon and the media needs Donald Trump to sustain itself. It was a rare moment of honesty in Washington that was lost in the crush of the tragic news of the Pittsburgh shootings and the Florida pipe bomber. The comments of President Trump and Jeff Zucker vividly confirmed the strange symbiosis between Trump and his media critics.
Trump has been an anomaly in politics long before his campaign. He has been regularly denounced for false statements. Yet he is also one of the most transparent politicians of his generation, often acknowledging agendas or desires that most politicians conceal. Where Hillary Clinton seemed incapable of being open and honest, even when it would have worked to her advantage, Trump will compulsively blurt out the worst possible admissions even when no one is pressing him on them. Examples range from his disastrous interview with NBC anchor Lester Holt on his thinking on the Russia investigation when firing FBI director James Comey or his statements on the travel ban on Muslim majority countries…
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The fact is that the president and the network need each other. CNN anchor Brian Stelter recently took offense when legendary journalist Ted Koppel noted that, despite the caustic comments, Trump has been good for CNN. Stelter responded, “That means what? If ratings are up, that means what?” Koppel did not back down and correctly stated, “The ratings are up. It means you can’t do without Donald Trump. You would be lost without Donald Trump.” When Stelter shot back, “Ted, you know that’s not true,” Koppel responded with the common view that “CNN’s ratings would be in the toilet without Donald Trump.” Stelter brought an angry retort and said, “You know that’s not true. You’re playing for laughs.”…
image…CNN.Com/AP Photo/ Evan Vucci
…According to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter, the president has privately bragged that he’d still remain in the spotlight, even if Biden is in the Oval Office, in part because the news media will keep regularly covering him since—as Trump has assessed—he gets the news outlets ratings and those same outlets find Biden “boring.”…
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