Adding Bill Shine makes everything complete. Trump is fully the Fox & Friends president.
Side note: do you think Kimberly Guilfoyle shared photos of Jr.'s junk?
And you’ve sold your soul to Fox news and Donald J. Trump… Don’t believe what they say - don’t believe what you see…
I’ve done no such thing, go bark at someone else. Hell I don’t even watch F&F.
I believe I did a post on this about a month ago.
It’s quite scary that our president watches Fox News, particularly Fox & Friends, Carlson, Hannity, and Ingraham to get his source of information. Whatever wacky segment or conspiracy theory they bark about, he tweets about. This is okay for a regular civilian. I would prefer if they watch CNN, MSNBC to get a more balanced perceptive, but for the President, this is disgraceful. He should be trusting his advisors and double-checking with them on what he sees on television. Instead Fox gets enraged about something irrelevant, he gets enraged about it.
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This happens a lot. They literally do segments where they talk directly to the camera and say “President Trump, I know you’re watching”.
Covfefe was here.
Even back during the campaign, Trumps staffers and advisers often found it more useful to appear on FNC than talk to Trump directly.
When Trump hears/see’s something on TV, he seems to pay much more attention to what is being said.
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I don’t think President Trump is smart enough to do it any other way. It has to be some kind of TV show. I don’t think he could even take the information that advisers give him and process it
It kinda reminds me when Obama learned everything from a newspaper.
You’re one of trumps biggest apologists here
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So that’s an interesting point. Obama used it as an excuse, Trump seems to be relishing in it though. When your own admin needs to address you via the television set well you might be watching too much tv
I think the President communicates more through his tweets and rallys than by television. I think he learns what the topics of the day being discussed out here by the general public are through Fox. Then he tweets out his responses and appears to be very effective through this medium.
that bolded part is 100% correct.
I actually posted about this after the Waffle House shooting, when Trump took far too long to recognize the real life hero who went after the shooter for weeks. Of course @WildRose made all sorts of excuses for why the WH hadn’t done so yet, but then honestly tried to do exactly what he’s doing now.
You and I have actually gone back and forth on this issue before. Do you remember? Pepperidge Farm remembers. You flailed around all over the place trying to argue points that no one was arguing to try to discredit the idea that Trump watches A LOT of Fox and Friends, and gets a lot of his news from them.
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Grandpa makes some strong points after listening to the tv people.
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Donald Trump advertised himself as a business genius and a whole lot of Trump Republicans here pushed that.
Anyone still believe that?
Or “Watching the News”.
His own national security staff seemed to miss the rise of ISIS as a threat till they heard about it on CNN.
I’ve said it before and will say it again. People give far too much credit to talk radio and cable news.
I did a Google search. Rush has about 14 million weekly listeners. Fox news gets about 3 million in the evening, less during the day. It’s probably safe to assume many of the same people who listen to Rush then watch Fox at night.
That’s not all that big an audience considering the population as a whole.
So to suggest Rush is responsible for shaping the R party is giving him way too much credit.
As to the OP, it seems very clear Trump does watch F& F. Some of his tweets that happen after the show will be related to something they were talking about.
You don’t think that narrative filters down through all the other digital news and various sources? Sure seems like it does when I look around. Even if it is simply people on Twitter, even memes will be created and flying around in hours based on those narratives.
I don’t know. I guess that is possible. But the vast majority of people do not pay a lot of attention to politics. They tend to become more engaged as an election approaches, but even then, only about 50% of people bother to vote.
