Typically for a state dinner invites go out to all of the congressional leadership and selected members of the media. So for the first Trump state dinner tonight they threw out tradition. No journalists will attend. And only one Democrat has been invited, John Bel Edwards, the governor of Louisiana.
State affairs in the past have been very bi-partizan. A chance for all to get together and celebrate the visit of a world dignitary. It appears that Mr. and Mrs. Trump will suspend tradition tonight.
Nothing says free and open democracy more then shutting out your political opponents and the press.
I will bet you dollars to dog nuts that the French press will pick up on this and not be kind.
Show me where any guests at past state dinners have published lies about the affair. If Trump wants to avoid conflict then he is doing it in a gutless cowardly way. He continues to embarrass our country.
Seriously this guy is nothing but a petulant child. It’s actually kinda fun to watch. By the time my kids were five I just learned to laugh at them when they threw a hissy fit. Much like I do with Trump.
Have you not been reading the newspapers, and watching TV and cable news? There is nothing bi-partisan about the news media or their journalists. Their coverage of all things related to Trump has been openly hostile, with something like 95% negative.
True. But not allowing even “friendly” press is out of character for Trump. You’d think he’d appreciate a glowing account of his first state dinner. I guess we’ll just have to get the details from Sarah Sanders.
One can explain Democrats and Fake News peddlers in 30 seconds:
Each time they lose an argument they create a new lie.
Lose…lie, loose…lie, …lose lie.
And so it goes until some day their supporters grow a brain and toss them to the curb.
May take a while since there is a lot of truth in Mr. Gruber’s tell-all about the voters in America.
