Does Trump even know that NBC does not have a FCC Broadcasting License?

[Botany]

Trump threatens to cancel NBC’s broadcast license over critical reporting



https://www.vox.com/2017/10/11/16458362/trump-nbc-tweet

Link to tweet

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The context here is that NBC News reported first that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson had called Trump a “fucking moron,” setting off a week’s worth of coverage of internal administration chaos, and then today reported that what set Tillerson off was a Trump request to increase the size of the US nuclear arsenal tenfold. Such an increase would be financially costly, break international law, surely lead to more nuclear proliferation, and accomplish nothing, since the US already has plenty of nukes to deter anyone. It was, in short, pretty moronic.

The policy context is that individual television broadcast stations need licenses from the Federal Communications Commission to stay in business.

This licensing regime is necessary to prevent different stations from offering overlapping transmissions that prevent anyone from tuning in. But it’s also potentially open to abuse — Lyndon Johnson and his wife deployed licensing authority corruptly to prevent anyone from competing with a station they owned in Texas. In theory, you could also abuse the power less for this sort of venal corruption and more for the kind of systemic corruption that Trump is proposing here.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Very doubtful. He doesn't know how to zip his own fly.

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. What do you think?

Doesnt know there are amendments to the constitution, didnt know what the constitution said and sure as hell didnt know about #25

[Botany]

6. I think he is a smart and skilled businessman who finished @ the top of his class @ Wharton

Do I need to add this?

[Eliot Rosewater]

7. LOL

the scoop I would be working on as a reporter is finding the guy who did his school work for him, or gal

[PJMcK]

11. That would be "two scoops" (n/t)

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Dingle Berry Trump only

knows what he sees and hears from the likes of Hannity,and Alex Jones. If it is on Newsmax or Infowars it must be fact,right.

[jberryhill]

4. Oh come now

What could possibly lead anyone to believe that Trump has a functional knowledge of anything.

His ignorance is encyclopedic.

[Botany]

5. He is a dotard

do·tard
ˈdōdərd/Submit
noun
an old person, especially one who has become weak or senile.

[Irish_Dem]

8. He doesn't know, doesn't care. Reality is beside the point to him.

Truth is a fluid concept.

[lpbk2713]

9. BWAHAHAHA. You big stupid.

Stick to tweeting and cheating at golf. You're a loser at being president.

[Bob Loblaw]

10. You lost me at; does Trump know

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