Why is President Trump so afraid of a free press?

@GoodoldBob If you wish to act as an English teacher might i suggest you find an English language website on which to do it.

@Picklebobble2 You made a foolish error. I corrected it. Smart people in your situation say something like "oops" or even "thanks for catching that" but I guess you aren't ...

Man, can you pick fly shit out of black pepper too ? @GoodoldBob

@Platinum The economy is riding a wave for now. But that has nothing to do with Trump. In fact he is harming it. But than will hit later. Two things I dont like that are relevant. First. he takes credit for everything and blame for nothing. Second and more important, he is telling people its going to keep happening and it isnt.

Who are you supposed to say is responsible when he has been in power for two years, it seems you want to say it has nothing to do with trump that things are going well, but you are going to blame him when you say he is harming the economy and you are going to blame him for something that has not happened yet....that is totally wrong....who are you saying is responsible for how well the country is doing? @whowasthatmaskedman

@Platinum The fact that the nation has been printing money and running a massive and escalating deficit. (out to about $US65K for every man , woman and child in the country) Has allowed the nation to have a high employment, relatively high growth economy. This is the same as if you got yourselves a couple of new credit cards and spend up big, maxxing them out, then got more cards. But sooner or later , the debt collectors are going to start calling. Trumo did NOT rack up the $21 TRILLION US debt to the rest of the world. But he has added over a Trillion to it since he arrived and actually built very little of substance with it, and it is accelerating.

@puck61 YOU HAVE BEEN FLAGED

@softspokenman I'm making it my business. You don't like it? Go fuck yourself. 🖕

[b]" It IS NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS "[/b]
Second time.

@SumKindaMunster

@Adaydreambeliever you mean a government employee would actually lie

@MarineBob I give you credit for knowing the answer to that one

@SumKindaMunster I support the idea of Black lives matter but I did not support their their actions.

I believe blm should have focused more black community reducing gun violence and gang violence. The good thing is, there has been some who have spoken out about gang violence in black communities and are working to prevent young teens from joining gangs.

No, most Black Americans do not support Black Lives Matter at all or the direction the movement took.

As of 2018, they haven’t been mentioned on the news much.

@hippyjoe1955 What comment did I post? And what great evil must be destroyed?

[quote]truth be told you sound more like a hater than those you think are haters[/quote]

Lets see which has more impact? Calling someone dumb or wanting all non-white folks to go back to their countries or be dead like those in white supremacist groups want?

The second one sounds more impactful, wouldn’t you think?

@SW-User I don't care to listen to everything Trump says. Talk is cheap and [i]all[/i] politicians lie. I think spending my time watching videos of him speaking is a waste of time and a distraction.

A distraction because what he says changes on a whim, and there is no point in spending your time listening to that, and reacting to it as it will change at any moment.

I prefer to judge him by his actions. What he actually does. Right now, while I am certainly not thrilled with everything he has done, overall I am happy with his performance as President. I don't care what Justin Trudeau or Angela Merkel think of Trump. I don't care what people in the UK, Canada or Australia think of Trump. I don't care that he is perceived as rude or not deferential to our "allies". I don't care that people choose to take offense at his rhetoric, that is their choice and I will not be held accountable for people's own choices.

@AnneHoney Where is your friend @TexChik? I was thinking that we could have a prayer circle or something for President Trump. He needs all our thoughts and prayers at this very difficult moment

@DonHobag lol

@TexChik @AnneHoney don't let the fruit loop get to you. He's actually had some training in this stuff, but I can see he didn't exactly graduate at the top of his class, because he is laying it on a little thick.

He has a lot to hide and he knows it and he cant pay off everyone with hush money.@Loretta78

@softspokenman 👍️

@MistyCee You've got the point! 👍️

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He has brought it all on himself along with his enablers, his staff making excuses for him, even his tweet about Kellyanne Conway's husband ? No one else did it to him to make him look bad he really doesn't need any help with that. @GoodoldBob

@SteelHands Oh Trump can have as much free speech as he wants. But just because he says something that is not true, doesn't mean he shouldn't be questioned and criticized for it. And that's what Trump doesn't like, when he's questioned and criticized.

@dunpender @SevIsPamprinYouAlways back, and i return to find that the one who speaks of civility has devolved to the point of employing direct attacks on his opponent, a self proclaimed savage who as of yet has maintained his integrity throughout the duration of this exchange, while a woman who has the right to speak among men has instead chosen to allow memes to speak for her.. lol

what more can i say? i rest my fucking case .. 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

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@SevIsPamprinYouAlways got me there ;)

@SW-User No. The ones who hog the mike and won't let any one else ask a question should be removed from polite company. Most do and it makes for an informed public. In truth no one cares what Acosta thinks. He is an ego with few brains.

@hippyjoe1955 This is not kindergarten. Who cares if he hogged the mic. That shouldn't be a reason to ban someone all because they held a damn mic for so long. Besides other journalists got their chances afterwards in the video. You make it seem like no one got a chance.

@SW-User I certainly care. I want to have real questions asked of the president not listen to Acosta's opinions. If the president has an hour and a half and Acosta takes 20 minutes that really cuts into intelligent questions by others. Acosta's questions amounted to little more than 'have you stopped beating your wife yet'.

@dunpender An excellent and concise summary of the situation

@katielass He calls the media "the enemy of the people". That sounds like a guy who is afraid of free press.

@SW-User The media IS the enemy of the people. They are not interested in giving us facts but their opinion, and their opinion can be bought and sold because they have no journalistic standards or ethics.

White House press briefings are designed to give information to the press who then disseminate it to the public. It is not a forum for debate or argument or expressing opinion. The White House speaks, the press listens, regardless of who is in the office of President.

@xixgun To be honest, Trump doesn’t tell the truth either. Is he the enemy of the people as well?

@puck61 As said before, the soybean trade sales went done down 94% as a result of the trade war, so yes the trade war affecting farmers.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/brutal-map-shows-u-s-farmers-want-trump-end-trade-war-123443562.html
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Fight for what? There is nothing to fight for. The only threat are the militia groups who are also at the border waiting to start a fight with the caravan once it gets here.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/american-militias-head-to-the-border-sparking-military-concerns_us_5bdfae33e4b04367a87ddc1f?utm_source=reddit.com
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And here is the article on the phone issue

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/21/trump-phone-security-risk-hackers-601903
https://www.wired.com/story/trump-iphone-security-risk/

Soybean sales to China down 94% . There's a big difference. China isn't exactly short on soybeans! 😆

Cesar Chaves (Si se puede) Is a darling of the democrats who sent vans full of thugs down to the border to beat the crap out illegal immigrants. He and the democrats in general were vehemently against illegal immigration. Obama gave Chavez a national holiday! The only reason the democrats are pushing this agenda is to try and keep a hold of power, because refugees and illegals are conned into voting democrat,

Bad stuff and bad people come in with illegal immigration and to deny that is pure insanity.

@puck61 Well it’s obvious you don’t care that the U.S. is going down the drain. Rather, you give me this long senseless paragraph about nothing.

@dunpender Congratulations, you’ve just demonstrated beautifully the difference between giving an opinion, which is what you did, and facts.

@dunpender and he doesen't care either

Face it.. when it come to anyone v trump you trump haters auto magically pick ‘anyone’
We all know corporation/conglomerate news stations sell air time and sensationalise bullshit.
But hey.. it’s trump v someone.. better back the anti trump side.. you’ve been programmed..
Good job 👍😁

@Pfuzylogic Actually I think the better plan would be allow him to finish one term Discredit him publicly to be sure he doesnt get re elected, then try ans sentence him after the election , when he cant pardon himself

@whowasthatmaskedman
If only it was only him that was going to do time. He has sullied his whole family.

@SW-User so the corporations hate him too huh?

@Adaydreambeliever Ooops 😂

@puck61 Lucre. Nice word.

@TexChik Actually there have been pro Trump stories from conservative media. Fox news being one of them. And it appears they haven’t lost their jobs.

@SevIsPamprinYouAlways I could do without the wall stuff. Maybe camps instead?

wasn't but just a few years ago all the democrapers wanted secure borders

@MarineBob True, but the "wall" is stupid and ought to insult everyone. It doesn't seem to bother Trump supporters, which just bugs the hell out of me.

@AnneHoney I am afraid that's an illusion, he says he is doing a great job, the gullible, those who don't have the ability to understand economics and the specific factors involved seem to prefer to believe that than understand the specifics..
I was thinking about this this morning.. the claim that Strumpet supporters keep making.. that he's doing great and has kept promises.. do they really forget about the greater number of promises he has made but not kept? The man makes a few hundred promises a month.. most of them outrageously fantastical (and fanatical!) and he doesn't keep them.. but his supporters seem to either not see or don't have the ability to?

I have an ungrad degree in Finance/Economics, don’t try and bullshit me. You have no clue what you are talking about.@Adaydreambeliever

@AnneHoney
He has an unnecessary budget deficit of almost 800 billion dollars. This during the fantastic economy that Obama gave him. We have yet to pay off his stupidity of further gassing up an economy that was working fine by the previous administration. That doesn’t take an undergrad degree to understand. Now why people in W’s cabinet weren’t thrown in prison because of the home loan derivative scandal was solely based on the mercy of Obama.

@hahaheheuhhaha but not as dumb as Trump with his inability to construct a simple sentence without contradicting himself, lying and repeating simple words over and over :P

@hahaheheuhhaha That's enougph. Sit down, that's enougph. lol

@dunpender but would that press truly be free however? That is the question I'm asking here. And yes I am aware that defamation is usually sorted out in the courts.

Have you never seen him or heard him lie in public for our all our allies and all our enemies to see and hear ? I have, and anyone who has seen his Speech's, Tweets, and Interviews with the News Media that he calls "The Enemy of the people" has also. I am not the POTUS he is. Are we going to receive the 10 % tax cut for the middle class that he said right before the mid-terms to influence votes ? And You want ME to prove MY accusations but HE doesn't need to prove any of his and you will defend him? @PikachuTrainer