NY Times: Trump offered "exclusive rights" to Inauguration to Fox News

[brooklynite]

Shortly before Trump was sworn in, Zucker heard that he was considering giving Fox News exclusive rights to televise the inauguration and that Kushner was in the process of brokering a deal with Rupert Murdoch, whom Kushner once courted as a mentor. Zucker called Trump. “Bottom line is that I said, ‘This is crazy,’?” Zucker recalls. “You’re just going to give your inaugural coverage to your base of support? It makes no sense.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/magazine/cnn-had-a-problem-donald-trump-solved-it.html

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. And exactly how did he plan to enforce......you know, never mind.

Trump.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Thanks for posting.

Bookmarked.

[UTUSN]

3. Oh my Zeus. The sick ignorant f*** really thought he owned things as a personal franchise.

[malaise]

10. Nancy P is correct

He views the Presidency as a personal acquisition.

Groper Don the Con loves the grab 'em by the pussy Fucks News.

[Saviolo]

16. He really thinks he's been elected "boss."

He thinks the election was for CEO of America Inc(tm).

He treats the cabinet like a board of directors that he is at the head of.

He thinks that as the boss he can unilaterally make decisions unrestricted (executive orders) and if he doesn't like what someone tells him, he can just fire them (Loretta Lynch).

[malaise]

18. Sally Yates will teach him

He disgusts me

[dawnie51]

4. He considers this whole WH gig a personal franchise.....

and operates accordingly. No one seems inclined to disabuse him of this either.

[left-of-center2012]

5. Was Russian TV unavailable?

[NanceGreggs]

7. ...

[Vinca]

6. Guess I would never have known since I didn't want to watch.

"Rights" to an inauguration. WTF.

[Ms. Toad]

8. .

I guess it fits with presidential tweets pumping up privately owned businesses . . .but it never would have occurred to me.

And - without reading the entire article - the response is: You're crazy to try to talk just to your base, rather than you're crazy you can't make a governmental occasion the exclusive property of one commercial business.

[still_one]

9. I think it is appropriate. Give it to the sexual predator network

[underpants]

11. Remember, he wanted tanks too

[Thomas Hurt]

12. Ive been saying this for some time

Trump thinks of the Presidency as just another means to enrich himself. He doesn't care about governing (trumpcare being an example). He cares about make a buck for himself and his cronies in true pure conservative ideological fashion.

As an example.

Privatization is not about best means to govern. It is about influence peddling, padding people's bank accounts.

[Ilsa]

13. He treats public information as a commodity to be sold or bartered

for personal gain. Look at all of the govt websites he's had taken down. It's the mark of a kleptocrat.

[samnsara]

14. no one else watched it anyway..

..he was gonna air brush in crowds!

[dalton99a]

15. For people who wanted to watch weird shit

[Justice]

17. and what would Fox have paid Trump? Disgusting.

[Fast Walker 52]

19. not surprising, but certainly it reinforces what a complete piece of shit moron he is

[Johonny]

20. Can't he resign and just let FOX news tell their viewer he's still president so we can

have a real president again?

[Fast Walker 52]

21. Hey CNN-- just think how awesome the ratings would be for Trump's impeachment! Now make it happen!

[world wide wally]

22. I'm wondering how soon we will be getting his military parades...

I guess as soon as they finish designing his "generalisimo" outfit.

[tammywammy]

23. He wanted to use military hardware in his inaugural parade! n/t