Why the hell is Trump always called President Trump, and President Obama was just called Obama?

[RKP5637]

I hear this all the time on MSM, not often do I hear President Trump just called Trump. I used to think it was just me listening for what I wanted to hear ... but IMO it now seems to be a distinct pattern. I know, silly discussion, but it's one more bias IMO by MSM.

[chuckstevens]

1. In a word, racism!

[RKP5637]

5. Yep, I think that's behind some of it. n/t

[Orangepeel]

2. Thats a rhetorical question, right?

[PJMcK]

3. Perhaps it's your perception

Here's a headline from today's NY Times:
"Trump Heads South, Leaving Washington Reeling"

This is the title of a column in the NY Post:
"The Beltway establishment is wrong again: John Bolton is a great pick for Trump"

And this is a column from the National Review:
"Republicans Still Don’t Get Trump"

I agree with you that it can seem like the media are dissing President Obama and certainly Trump and other GOPers do this. As for myself, I will not use the title when referring to Trump. He doesn't even get a "Mr." because he's so despicable.

[Ohiogal]

4. I am the same way

I don't think I have ever said "President Trump" out loud yet, and it pains me to type or or read it.

To me, he is nothing but a fake, a liar, an asshole. He does not deserve the title of POTUS.

One type of disrespect I always seem to notice is that when right wingers say "the Democrat party". It's DEMOCRATIC, assholes!

Sorry for the rant!

[PJMcK]

8. Rant away, Ohiogal

I'll always be an eager reader!

[RKP5637]

13. ... probably too illiterate to understand the use of adjectives. Isn't this what Gingrich started ...

[PatSeg]

34. I never say "President Trump"

or "The President". It is always just "Trump". After he was sworn in, whenever I heard someone on TV say "The President", I thought they were talking about President Obama. Then the ugly truth set in and I remembered.

I take note of the people who don't refer to Trump as "president". It just doesn't fit.

[RKP5637]

9. Yep, agree! I just call him tRump! n/t

[Eliot Rosewater]

29. Uh, excuse me, show some RESPECT please

he is

CHIEF TRAITOR

and dont ever forget it

I would put a smiley here but you know I am not laughing, but I am agreeing with you ...

In one AVERAGE day he commits more crimes, tells more lies than Obama and Hillary could do in a lifetime, yet they would have been impeached the first day of doing what he does.

[RKP5637]

33. Often I also use, "The Ass in the White House." n/t

[Pope George Ringo II]

23. I do think this one is as much in what we hear as what is said.

The name gets said both with and without the title--and sometimes just the title--regardless of who's in office.

[Demit]

6. In print media, the style is to use the title in the first reference, then

just the last name after that. I don't know if that holds for television or radio media. But I doubt it's a matter of blatant bias. Unless you are listening to Fox and Friends or Rush Limbaugh, etc?

[RKP5637]

11. I just love Hanity, Lou Dobbs and Rush Limbaugh! Always fair and truthful!!!

[GetRidOfThem]

7. I don't...

I don't call it "President Trump", I call it "Agent Orange:.

[PJMcK]

10. "It"

Most excellent, GetRidOfThem!

[RKP5637]

17. Yes, definitely an "it!" n/t

[tanyev]

12. Because MSM talks to far more Republicans than they do Democrats?

And even most of the Democrats they talk to are polite enough to say "President Trump"?

[RKP5637]

16. We were just discussing this this morning. Far more republicans often on MSM than

democrats.

[rzemanfl]

14. Because they can't say "That Fucking Trump" on teevee? n/t

[RKP5637]

18. Yep, just what many are thinking if not said! n/t

[Atman]

15. I've never called him President.

I always make sure to refer to him as "So-called President Trump."

[Ohiogal]

19. Here at home

I just say "The asshole" and my husband knows who I mean.

[comradebillyboy]

20. I always refer to him as the Dotard.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

21. Prez Obama was the only one to have "President" in his initials.

Many DUers referred to him as "PBO", using a letter for the title "President". I think there was some aversion to acknowledging his middle name "Hussein", or he would have been called "BHO" (Like FDR, JFK, DDE, HRC, ETC).

Maybe "Hussein" made him sound too Muslim or something.

Trump, of course, doesn't rate reference by initials. Nobody says "DJT". There are other names in use.

[RKP5637]

25. LOL! Trump is probably called more names than any other president. It's quite a distinction

for him!

[librechik]

22. Repubs are closet Monarchists.They never stopped wanting a king.

When one of theirs Becomes President he is entitled to all the pomp and circumstance the office confers, and more. If it's a Dem, not so much.

[RKP5637]

26. Yep, it fits their authoritarian lust! n/t

[a kennedy]

24. Ive wondered that myself.....hate that....such disrespect for one of

the most sincere, classiest, intellectual, intelligent POTUS ever.

[RKP5637]

28. I once worked with a manager that said he never wanted any president that was smarter than

himself, and he was damn stupid.

[malaise]

27. Yep - I notice that over and over

Word is that he insists he is called President at all times. The deference is even more troubling.

[Motley13]

30. I never use that term of respect for doofus don

President & maggot just don't go together

[FarCenter]

31. Because Trump is a single syllable name. Obama is three.

[mitch96]

32. I think that someone wanted to control the narative

And it stuck. If MSM just started calling him trump OVER AND OVER AND OVER and never using the word president, that would stick.
Just using a last name is a bit of a putdown. Putting a title to a name is a bit of an elevation.
It's how "they" play the game... Like stating a disgraced republican politician is a democrat. The other is to use defamatory adjectives before the noun.
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