Trump administration lists reporting it objects to in latest escalation of attacks on US journalism
The White House rolled out a new section of its official website on Friday that publicly criticizes and catalogs media organizations and journalists it claims have distorted coverage.
At the top of the page, the text reads: “Misleading. Biased. Exposed.” The feature names the Boston Globe, CBS News and the Independent as “media offenders of the week”, accusing them of inaccurately portraying Trump’s remarks about six Democratic lawmakers who released of video encouraging military members to not follow illegal orders.
The controversy arose after Trump accused Democrats of “seditious behavior, punishable by death” on social media. He also reposted a statement including the words: “hang them.”
According to the site, “The Democrats and Fake News Media subversively implied that President Trump had issued illegal orders to service members. Every order President Trump has issued has been lawful. It is dangerous for sitting Members of Congress to incite insubordination in the United States’ military, and President Trump called for them to be held accountable.”
Wow, the US really is just a complete clown show - the usual ridiculousness has increased many times over since January, and so has the greed. But yet: there is hardly any serious resistance to the obvious establishment of a dictatorship. Well, the citizens are probably so used to living in an unjust state that they think it wouldn’t make any difference.
For everyone else in the world, it probably won’t really make a difference, except that they’ll have to deal with another mentally ill despot. But I think that despite all the regime’s open organized crime, despite its brutish violence, the majority of US citizens still don’t understand what it means to live in a dictatorship.
We can only hope that the US will not resort to excessive use of its inflated military apparatus when the country inevitably continues to decline. Given the viciousness of the regime, this is unfortunately to be expected.
It would be great if the Americans could finally lock these criminals away, but to be honest, I gave up hope of that a long time ago.
I think you’re underestimating the US’ impact on the world. It could have severe destabilizing effects.
What do you expect to change for the world? The US has been a plutocracy for decades. Really not all too much difference to states like Russia - just another approach. The people in power did whatever they wanted to do for a very long time. Now they are just changing their modus operandi and giving up the pretense. Why? - well, because they can.
The only thing that worries me is that they could lose control over their straw man in the White House, but I think that’s unlikely because he’s much more like Hermann Göring than Adolf Hitler. He may be a hopeless narcissist, but he’s so incredibly greedy that filthy lucre and indulging his perversions are probably more important to him than real power, because power means commitment, and he’d rather go golfing.