He's declaring the power to say what's true & what is not true.

[kpete]

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/01/23/dear-media-the-trump-white-house-has-total-contempt-for-you-time-to-react-accordingly/?utm_term=.4269e4bf7e12

[Lucinda]

1. TY KNR

[malaise]

2. The press is part of the Constitution

They have all the power to destroy this pathological LIAR

[tblue37]

3. The GOP has been doing this all along (cf. climate change denial and other

attacks on scientific consensus and on verifiable facts in general). The right wing echo chamber was built specifically to ensure that the right wing base never sees or hears anything that has not been bent into the GOP's preferred shape.

After all those years of brainwashing, the GOP base is ready to believe anything they are told, as long as it comes to them by way of a source the right wing GOP has told them is acceptable and trustworthy.

Cheato is just taking advantage of the brainwashed base right wing propaganda has spent eyars creating.

[kentuck]

4. The freedom of the press is in our Constitution.

He took an oath to uphold the Constitution and now he wants to say the free press is "fake".

The only ones that are not "fake" are those that agree with him and do not criticize him.

He is in violation.

[Turbineguy]

5. Which is ironic

since it's largly the free coverage that he got from the media that put him in power.

But that's what others have found out. Do trump a favor and he turns on you later.

[kentuck]

6. The least common denominator seems to be greed.

They are all chasing those profits, those ratings, those shares.

[Snarkoleptic]

7. They've had alternate realities and facts since the shrub days.

https://granta.com/why-were-post-fact/
‘When we act, we create our own reality’, a senior Bush advisor, thought to be Karl Rove, told the New York Times in a quote Ferraris zeroes in on, ‘and while you’re studying that reality – judiciously, as you will – we’ll act again, creating other new realities’.

[stopbush]

8. We live in a country where the majority of people believe that the

lies and make believe of religion are true. Priests and pastors get up every week and tell the sheeple that their "truth" is not of this world, that man is inherently evil and dishonest.

We're predisposed to believe the lies told by Trump through the religious indoctrination we receive from childhood.