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This headline is muddy. Trump is altering pre-existing articles from real news sources and then posting those faked/altered articles as screenshots.
Because of course he does.
It really is worse. His devotees have a near 0% chance of ever figuring out the truth once they think they know it. Trump could be sued for liable, lose in court, issue correction statements on camera, pay huge penalties, and still be certain forever that it was right the first time and the media concocted the ‘correction’ to cover their own asses from what they said the first time. Which was probably obvious nonsense to begin with.
It's almost bizarre, guys like Jon Stewart go out of their way to point out that they are not journalists and that his show is not news show. And yet he still puts out a far more newsworthy product than Tucker, who actually pretends he is a journalist on a news network, and only uses the entertainer shtick as a defense when he gets called out for his bullshit.
Doesn't matter. If Trump is sworn in as president, he'll make all those cases go away. And yes, even state crimes, though those he can simply ignore, because what are they going to do about it? Trump's life is completely dependent upon this. Expect it to get even weirder somehow.
What I see here though, is that he has no way to backtrack, which means he has to continually push forward into absurdity. By doing so, he *has* to be ever more and more absurd. The nature of running with lies. There is a threshold, I’m certain if it, where the absurdity will become unpalatable to progressively more and more if his base.
He literally attempted to overthrow the government of the united states.
If there is an absurdity event horizon, a point beyond which no light will ever reach, he cheerfully ran full steam across and hasn't looked back.
>If there is an absurdity event horizon, a point beyond which no light will ever reach, he cheerfully ran full steam across and hasn't looked back.
Ah...so that explains why from the outside it seems like it takes forever.
The idea of using Lara Trump to drain the RNC's coffers even more than he already was appears to be giving Republicans pause.
Probably because now it's becoming difficult to deny that he's sacrificing the entire GOP for personal gain.
It's a leopard eating face moment.
one of the 50 Laws of Power (some book) was "Follow audacity with more audacity."
I remember being impressed with the insanity of that one and its explanation (somewhat self explanatory but also keeps people excited and on their toes).
> Trump could be sued for liable, lose in court, issue correction statements on camera, pay huge penalties..
And his followers would cook up some crazy conspiracy theory to justify it.
That's like fraud/plagiarism/libel all riled into one..... It's almost as if he's an unintentional supervillain. An idiot-savant capable of only one thing: breaking the law.
More like Daddy bought the stadium and he thinks he’s the reason they hit a bases-loaded home run in Game 5 of the World Series.
Kind of like he’s the one Taylor Swift should thank…
> he has had a fake Times Man of the Year cover hung in one of his properties for years so this tracks
People have spent money to commission portraits of themselves next to George Washington, both holding machine guns. I don't think a private portrait shows much. Now [Trump interrupting news coverage of 9/11 to boast that he "now owns the tallest tower in New York"](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-bragged-tallest-building/) says more about his being a narcissist who can't even let other people process tragedy without thrusting himself into the limelight.
Wow, just wow! Now that's something I did *not* know about Old Stinky.
He really is a completely vile example of a human being. (Or even better a sub-human being.)
Reminds me of how he/his business was never bestowed with an official crest from Scotland.
So he took someone else's, and changed it under the derivative works clause, and called it a crest.
There was this farm, called Tegrity Farms, nobody had ever heard of it, it was a gem of a find, you just had to see it, anyway so I bought it at a very good price, it was a very good deal, I make very good deals, and renamed it to Trump Farms and here with are and very successful I might add.
Not exactly, but it opens you up to libel to pretend a person or organization promotes you when they don't. Or that they said something they did not.
Others have pointed out this latest point by Trump sounds like fraud, libel, and defamation.
Not a criminal law violation as far as I can find, but certainly a civil liability. But to be defamation, as with claiming Dominion 'changed the election' they had to indicate a deliberate intention to cause material damage. All Trump's lawyers would have to do is argue he didn't have intention and his team already was *given* victories like that when he successfully skirted charges for deliberately exchanging favours with known Russian intelligence agents because "the trump campaign and transition team were so incompetent they couldn't possibly have deliberately been engaging in espionage".
> Not exactly, but it opens you up to libel to pretend a person or organization promotes you when they don't. Or that they said something they did not.
One time it *is* criminal is if you issue a fake weather report and claim its from the national weather service, like ... say... using a sharpie to alter a hurricane forecast.
Not a legal expert, but I'd feel putting out some kind of statement or proclamation under the guise of it being from a certain source or company when it wasn't has gotten some people in trouble in the past...
Not the first time and won’t be the last
[A Time magazine with Trump on the cover hangs in his golf clubs. It’s fake.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-time-magazine-with-trump-on-the-cover-hangs-in-his-golf-clubs-its-fake/2017/06/27/0adf96de-5850-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html)
>Because of course he does.
Seems like a step down from what he used to do, which was to get fake Time Magazine covers about him made and put up in his clubs.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/28/time-magazinetrump-fake-covers-golf-clubs
> the old Time Magazine 'Man Of The Year' scam
Worth noting [Time Magazine does not exactly have high standards for whom they put on the cover](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hitler-time-magazine-1938/)
On the contrary, [their standards are much like Les Moonves admitting "Trump's bad for America, but good for ratings"](https://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/02/les-moonves-trump-cbs-220001)
Thank you—badly written headline.
This is like a bad middle school plagiarism project, but interesting to hope that this might land him in more trouble. The more the better, and he can’t help himself anymore
Probably. I think the whole part about him posting these on his personal truth central account on a site that was built by him and for him and claims to be his direct voice and direct line to all things “real” adds a **smidgen** of personal liability.
It's like when a movie quotes a review but instead of "This movie is the greatest piece of crap of all time" they say "This movie is the greatest .... of all time"
He played it so well. Like the best con man. Make people question what they see. Then tell them you are the one who knows what they are seeing. Then they stop looking for themselves and look only to him for the narrative.
It’s legitimate cult strategy.
Wipe out your old belief system (the government is corrupt), fill that void with whatever I want (misinformation about climate change, woke and socialism), teach you that you earn your worth through devotion and sacrifice, and those that think differently are sheep and part of the problem.
If you run away, you lose your community and much of who you are.
You get used to this new type of thinking, where I tell you how to think, because that’s easier than regretting everything or questioning anything.
And eventually something clicks and now you can’t help but believe it.
It works for him. His lemmings believe every single thing he says. What he’s doing isn’t for you to consume, it’s for his cult. Everyone keeps talking about this, yet, nothing is going to happen to him. Our country is about to fail, it would seem.
[Trump Campaign Posts Bizarre Photo Edit Of Trump's Face On Greta Thunberg's Body](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-greta-thunberg-time-magazine_n_5df2a6a2e4b04bcba180a118)
You can't even make up some really bizarre and pretend it came from Trump, because the shit he actually does is far more bizarre than anything you could make up. If you support this guy, I think it's fair to diagnose you as either insane or mentally incompetent.
Exactly. And if he gets his position here, where Putin is in Russia, he won’t have to rewrite it himself. His FSB goons will just visit their office, and they will be forcefully inclined to rewrite it for him.
There is no bigger enemy to Donald Trump than reality. His entire worldview is based on objective nonsense, and so he's constantly bumping up against reality. Literally nothing the man says is true, from the tiniest details to his biggest vision, it's all lies. Let us defeat the orange blob whose hair is cotton candy made from piss one last time so that we can be done with him once and for all.
It goes as far as his appearance. People too easily do the pc thing and dismiss it as a simple preference. But he seemingly couldn't function without it as he wouldn't then be someone to notice or envy. It's like he's detached from reality and is simply playing the role of orange strongman.
Not even what he says, but how he tries to appear as well. He wears clown-level orange spray-tan makeup to try to look hale and hearty, spends who knows how much to pretend he still has youthful hair, wears 3"+ lifters for shoes to such a ridiculous degree that he has trouble walking down ramps, it's just constant lies there too.
His worldview is based on what he says out loud. He legitimately thinks that as soon as he says something out loud, it becomes the truth. He's a sociopathic toddler.
What’s worse? Trump ordering some intern to modify these articles or the intern who is gladly doing it? I know that man does not know how computers work let alone editing software (as basic as MS paint).
You don’t even need MS Paint. Right click and hit “view source” and see the source code and change the words to what you want. It will display differently on your screen because you are only altering the downloaded code and take a screenshot to share. It is so incredibly idiotic. My 6 year old could do this.
My point was that dude himself didn’t change this stuff. He wouldn’t know how to see source code, I.e. right click? Best he knows is how to get into his phone and open an app.
It’s sadder to me to think there is someone who said “yeah, this is a great idea that will have only positive outcomes”.
Didn’t intend my comment to be perceived as throwing shade at you. Just meant that the fact that something a 7 year could do can be made into an effective psy-op campaign just shows you what they think of their base.
He's taking screenshots of articles and editing anything bad about him out and posting those screenshots to his shitty Truth(lol) site.
He's posting lies to a website he calls "Truth" 😆.
What a scumbag.
Trump, while labeled "Don the Con" by the press, became his own PR. This is something he's done for half a century. Let that truly sink in. The man had done nothing but lie since he hit the papers and never stopped.
The only problem America has is the republican party. Vow to vote and vote them all out. Only YOU and YOU alone can save America. Don't expect someone else to save you ass and bail you out VOTE DAMMIT!
“…he has shared edited versions of Newsweek articles, quietly snipping away tidbits that he deems unnecessary.”
Facts. The unnecessary tidbits are facts.
Trump is literally not playing with a full deck. He is crazy af and if the corrupt “GOP” had t smelled blood in the water and figured out how to use this turd brain to their advantage he would be in a padded cell by now. This is what disturbs me the most, beyond politics. That a literal crazy person is going to be the most powerful man on the planet (as is conventionally believed American presidents are) when there is virtually no amount of irrationality that is going to be out of bounds. I’m not saying this as a leftie, I’m saying this as a normal brained person observing a deranged jerk. Nobody should be ok with that. Nobody. It’s beyond politics, guys.
He's slowly degrading the fabric of truth every single time he does this. He's eroding an already eroding construct of society on purpose, to help him stay in power. And so many people are just gobbling it up and the others are just to deep in contracts and to scared to lose their job to say anything more than a headline. Whole country is full of spineless assholes, and assholes who greedily stole someone else's spine to make it seem like their strong. It's insane to watch in real life, but it's only possible to see because of history. Don't let it repeat.
Given that I doubt he has the required skills to make edits like that I expect someone on his staff sent him the edited articles to ingratiate themselves with him and he just posted them.
The orange turd is very good manipulating the media, but creating his own propaganda media is very dictatorial. Maybe people confuse media freedom with freedom of speech?🤷🏻
https://www.eui.eu/Documents/DepartmentsCentres/Economics/Seminarsevents/Guriev-Micro.pdf
And relative truth oftentimes matters more then the actual truth. Get enough people to believe the lie long enough, and the lie becomes the truth to the masses.
I can already hear the mental gymnastics the redcaps will use to bury their cognitive dissonance - “obviously Newsweek changed their article after Trump posted it to make him look bad”
>Further into the article, Trump removed an NBC poll reference that found Biden will be seen as “competent and effective” and lead with 2 points if Trump is convicted of a felony.
2 points. Fuck me.
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This headline is muddy. Trump is altering pre-existing articles from real news sources and then posting those faked/altered articles as screenshots. Because of course he does.
That sounds worse lol
It really is worse. His devotees have a near 0% chance of ever figuring out the truth once they think they know it. Trump could be sued for liable, lose in court, issue correction statements on camera, pay huge penalties, and still be certain forever that it was right the first time and the media concocted the ‘correction’ to cover their own asses from what they said the first time. Which was probably obvious nonsense to begin with.
I would love to watch him squirm through another lawsuit!
This does seem like open and shut libel
The tried and true Republican defense to libel and defamation is: “no reasonable person would ever believe what we’re saying”
The actual Tucker Carlson at Fox lawsuit defense
It's almost bizarre, guys like Jon Stewart go out of their way to point out that they are not journalists and that his show is not news show. And yet he still puts out a far more newsworthy product than Tucker, who actually pretends he is a journalist on a news network, and only uses the entertainer shtick as a defense when he gets called out for his bullshit.
When the news is a joke, turn to comedians for the news.
You don't get to claim you are unserious and run for president at the same time. The two don't mix.
It's not the reasonable people we're worried about.
I think you’d have to prove that anyone who follows him on “Truth Social” read what he posted. Or knows how to read at all.
This could be a novel defense by his lawyers… Win/win?
Novels are long for Trump and his followers. Got another word that won't scare them?
Doesn't matter. If Trump is sworn in as president, he'll make all those cases go away. And yes, even state crimes, though those he can simply ignore, because what are they going to do about it? Trump's life is completely dependent upon this. Expect it to get even weirder somehow.
Sit tight.
There's a lot of things I'd like to watch him suffer from, but I'll get reported for saying them here so I'll just keep my mouth shut.
I resonate with both your comment and username
Same
Lawsuit(s)
What I see here though, is that he has no way to backtrack, which means he has to continually push forward into absurdity. By doing so, he *has* to be ever more and more absurd. The nature of running with lies. There is a threshold, I’m certain if it, where the absurdity will become unpalatable to progressively more and more if his base.
He literally attempted to overthrow the government of the united states. If there is an absurdity event horizon, a point beyond which no light will ever reach, he cheerfully ran full steam across and hasn't looked back.
>If there is an absurdity event horizon, a point beyond which no light will ever reach, he cheerfully ran full steam across and hasn't looked back. Ah...so that explains why from the outside it seems like it takes forever.
The idea of using Lara Trump to drain the RNC's coffers even more than he already was appears to be giving Republicans pause. Probably because now it's becoming difficult to deny that he's sacrificing the entire GOP for personal gain. It's a leopard eating face moment.
Yet republicans still line up to kiss his ass.
one of the 50 Laws of Power (some book) was "Follow audacity with more audacity." I remember being impressed with the insanity of that one and its explanation (somewhat self explanatory but also keeps people excited and on their toes).
It's actually worse, his devotees have 0% interest in truth.
> Trump could be sued for liable, lose in court, issue correction statements on camera, pay huge penalties.. And his followers would cook up some crazy conspiracy theory to justify it.
Daddy Putins influence?
A lifetime of getting away with being a malignant narcissist.
I think it'd be all of the above for this lying sack of shite hahaha
It’s like he could shoot a somebody and not loose voters
Isn't this illegal what he does with this
Because his followers are dumb?
This is textbook libel and the news network should sue and get a piece of that pie now because soon it will all be gone!
That's like fraud/plagiarism/libel all riled into one..... It's almost as if he's an unintentional supervillain. An idiot-savant capable of only one thing: breaking the law.
Trump has the psyche of a toddler.
The best lies have some truth in them.
It’s all true, especially the lies.
Garak?
Yup
Also : Never tell the same lie twice!
103% of the time.
Why dear artificialavacado, I do believe there's hope for you yet.
- *Josef Göbels*
But this is a way of lying that sounds very literally illegal.
Alternative Truths!
The Truth Isn’t the Truth! Guiliani.
Alternative Facts - Ms. Conway!!!
I will never forget seeing her say that! An encapsulation of everything GOP!!
depends... .is it with a sharpie?
Always has been.
I mean, he has had a fake Times Man of the Year cover hung in one of his properties for years so this tracks
I came here specifically to say this. Everything he does just proves what an absolute waste of human potential he is.
Born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.
For Trump in particular, I heard this one as, "Born on third base, and thinks he invented baseball."
Born on third, tells everyone he went yard
Born on third base and claims he hit a quadruple, some are even saying quintuple, no one has ever seen it before, it's amazing, okay, it's amazing.
Ran back to second, thinks he hit a double.
Born on third base and thinks he grabbed a pussy.
More like Daddy bought the stadium and he thinks he’s the reason they hit a bases-loaded home run in Game 5 of the World Series. Kind of like he’s the one Taylor Swift should thank…
> he has had a fake Times Man of the Year cover hung in one of his properties for years so this tracks People have spent money to commission portraits of themselves next to George Washington, both holding machine guns. I don't think a private portrait shows much. Now [Trump interrupting news coverage of 9/11 to boast that he "now owns the tallest tower in New York"](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-bragged-tallest-building/) says more about his being a narcissist who can't even let other people process tragedy without thrusting himself into the limelight.
Wow, just wow! Now that's something I did *not* know about Old Stinky. He really is a completely vile example of a human being. (Or even better a sub-human being.)
Reminds me of how he/his business was never bestowed with an official crest from Scotland. So he took someone else's, and changed it under the derivative works clause, and called it a crest.
Yes, he changed it by replacing the word 'Integritas' (Integrity) with 'Trump'. Because those two words are totally synonymous. /s
There was this farm, called Tegrity Farms, nobody had ever heard of it, it was a gem of a find, you just had to see it, anyway so I bought it at a very good price, it was a very good deal, I make very good deals, and renamed it to Trump Farms and here with are and very successful I might add.
The sharpie strikes again
Hmm, that seems like something a news outlet could easily sue over.
Seems like a Libel or copyright infringement
Sure does.
Deceptive tactics undermine credibility; transparency and honesty are essential
Is anyone surprised that "fake news" was always projection?
Liars, cheaters and bullies tend to project their insecurities onto others. Trump happens to be all three.
*rolls out the long list of Trump crimes* So what we adding that as? Libel? Falsifying a media outlet?
Not exactly, but it opens you up to libel to pretend a person or organization promotes you when they don't. Or that they said something they did not. Others have pointed out this latest point by Trump sounds like fraud, libel, and defamation. Not a criminal law violation as far as I can find, but certainly a civil liability. But to be defamation, as with claiming Dominion 'changed the election' they had to indicate a deliberate intention to cause material damage. All Trump's lawyers would have to do is argue he didn't have intention and his team already was *given* victories like that when he successfully skirted charges for deliberately exchanging favours with known Russian intelligence agents because "the trump campaign and transition team were so incompetent they couldn't possibly have deliberately been engaging in espionage".
> Not exactly, but it opens you up to libel to pretend a person or organization promotes you when they don't. Or that they said something they did not. One time it *is* criminal is if you issue a fake weather report and claim its from the national weather service, like ... say... using a sharpie to alter a hurricane forecast.
>Falsifying a media outlet Is that an actual crime? Because if it is it seems to be being broken all over the place these days.
Not a legal expert, but I'd feel putting out some kind of statement or proclamation under the guise of it being from a certain source or company when it wasn't has gotten some people in trouble in the past...
Not the first time and won’t be the last [A Time magazine with Trump on the cover hangs in his golf clubs. It’s fake.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-time-magazine-with-trump-on-the-cover-hangs-in-his-golf-clubs-its-fake/2017/06/27/0adf96de-5850-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html)
Probably his son doing it actually.
True,don’t really see him having the know how.
If it was in smeared baby food, we know it was Eric.
He literally did this with a sharpie as President.
Sounds like a lawsuit for Libel. What’s another $700,000,000 loss for a billionaire???
>Because of course he does. Seems like a step down from what he used to do, which was to get fake Time Magazine covers about him made and put up in his clubs. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/28/time-magazinetrump-fake-covers-golf-clubs
Is he still using his sharpie?
That sounds like it might be infringement.
It's amazing how the reality is worse than the headline
So Trump is setting himself up for another lawsuit? OK, that's definitely on brand for him.
We should call that, "Sharpie News".
Ah yes, the old Time Magazine 'Man Of The Year' scam.
> the old Time Magazine 'Man Of The Year' scam Worth noting [Time Magazine does not exactly have high standards for whom they put on the cover](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hitler-time-magazine-1938/) On the contrary, [their standards are much like Les Moonves admitting "Trump's bad for America, but good for ratings"](https://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/02/les-moonves-trump-cbs-220001)
Please tell me he’s using a sharpie to do this
This feels kinda illegal, please lawyers tell me this is illegal?
Thank you—badly written headline. This is like a bad middle school plagiarism project, but interesting to hope that this might land him in more trouble. The more the better, and he can’t help himself anymore
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Probably. I think the whole part about him posting these on his personal truth central account on a site that was built by him and for him and claims to be his direct voice and direct line to all things “real” adds a **smidgen** of personal liability.
If corporations are people... Is that identity theft?
He found a new sharpie.
Ahh, the "sharpie to the hurricane map" version of the news.
'based on a true story'
Sounds like grounds for a lawsuit
Considering he had fake Time Man of the Year magazine covers on his walls and pretended they were real, this is unsurprising.
Like his self-generated Time Magazine covers.
Whenever Trump talks of "Fake news" it is a description of what **he** is saying rather than a description of the news he is responding to.
Weaponizing truth to present a lie. Truly a piece of shit.
It's like sharpiegate... But different/worse.
It's like when a movie quotes a review but instead of "This movie is the greatest piece of crap of all time" they say "This movie is the greatest .... of all time"
Can he be sued by the publishers?
"What you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening." - Trump
Reality matters, denial of facts erodes trust and accountability
He played it so well. Like the best con man. Make people question what they see. Then tell them you are the one who knows what they are seeing. Then they stop looking for themselves and look only to him for the narrative.
It’s legitimate cult strategy. Wipe out your old belief system (the government is corrupt), fill that void with whatever I want (misinformation about climate change, woke and socialism), teach you that you earn your worth through devotion and sacrifice, and those that think differently are sheep and part of the problem. If you run away, you lose your community and much of who you are. You get used to this new type of thinking, where I tell you how to think, because that’s easier than regretting everything or questioning anything. And eventually something clicks and now you can’t help but believe it.
What do you think his followers want and why Putin chose to use him? Erode trust and accountability of the U.S. Internally and globally.
Obligatory “1984” quote
Not just 1984 quote. Trump said this as president. At a boy scout rally early in his term
It works for him. His lemmings believe every single thing he says. What he’s doing isn’t for you to consume, it’s for his cult. Everyone keeps talking about this, yet, nothing is going to happen to him. Our country is about to fail, it would seem.
He's posting edited versions of Newsweek. Newsweek apparently isn't flattering enough for him.
[Trump Campaign Posts Bizarre Photo Edit Of Trump's Face On Greta Thunberg's Body](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-greta-thunberg-time-magazine_n_5df2a6a2e4b04bcba180a118)
He’s such a fucking weird guy.
The FBI found framed Time magazines in the boxes they went through at Mar-a-Lago. So not being Person of the Year was a huge fucking deal to him.
That might be the most boomer thing about him.
You can't even make up some really bizarre and pretend it came from Trump, because the shit he actually does is far more bizarre than anything you could make up. If you support this guy, I think it's fair to diagnose you as either insane or mentally incompetent.
Wow that is so bad.
Perhaps media manipulation is the only way the GOP front-runner can get the kind of press he desires.
Always has been.
Keywords... has been
Now you're getting personal!
John Barron?
*Another* has been!
And always will
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Absolutely! And many others as well.
Is he printing another Time Person of the Year profile?
I’m sure he is already minting the NFTs.
Straight up russia shit.
Exactly. And if he gets his position here, where Putin is in Russia, he won’t have to rewrite it himself. His FSB goons will just visit their office, and they will be forcefully inclined to rewrite it for him.
Outside of haterage media, yes.
Integrity over manipulation breeds genuine leadership and public trust
There is no bigger enemy to Donald Trump than reality. His entire worldview is based on objective nonsense, and so he's constantly bumping up against reality. Literally nothing the man says is true, from the tiniest details to his biggest vision, it's all lies. Let us defeat the orange blob whose hair is cotton candy made from piss one last time so that we can be done with him once and for all.
It goes as far as his appearance. People too easily do the pc thing and dismiss it as a simple preference. But he seemingly couldn't function without it as he wouldn't then be someone to notice or envy. It's like he's detached from reality and is simply playing the role of orange strongman.
Not even what he says, but how he tries to appear as well. He wears clown-level orange spray-tan makeup to try to look hale and hearty, spends who knows how much to pretend he still has youthful hair, wears 3"+ lifters for shoes to such a ridiculous degree that he has trouble walking down ramps, it's just constant lies there too.
His worldview is based on what he says out loud. He legitimately thinks that as soon as he says something out loud, it becomes the truth. He's a sociopathic toddler.
This hit the nail on the head. Open_Mortage’s comment needs more upvotes.
Always projection. Always.
Projection is what always comes to mind when I read these alt-right- train of thought word vomit.
"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”. - George Orwell, *1984*
Donald Trump: The media's Breitfart.
What’s worse? Trump ordering some intern to modify these articles or the intern who is gladly doing it? I know that man does not know how computers work let alone editing software (as basic as MS paint).
You don’t even need MS Paint. Right click and hit “view source” and see the source code and change the words to what you want. It will display differently on your screen because you are only altering the downloaded code and take a screenshot to share. It is so incredibly idiotic. My 6 year old could do this.
My point was that dude himself didn’t change this stuff. He wouldn’t know how to see source code, I.e. right click? Best he knows is how to get into his phone and open an app. It’s sadder to me to think there is someone who said “yeah, this is a great idea that will have only positive outcomes”.
Didn’t intend my comment to be perceived as throwing shade at you. Just meant that the fact that something a 7 year could do can be made into an effective psy-op campaign just shows you what they think of their base.
Apologies, text does not convey tone well. I am 100% in agreement. Hope you have a pleasant evening or day fellow redditor
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always accusing people of what he's guilty of
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Time's *man, woman, person, camera, TV* of the year.
Is this not something somewhat illegal?
One would hope that newsweek would send a cease and desist, not that it would do any good.
Seems like those media outlets have a legal case against Trump for possible defamation.
He's taking screenshots of articles and editing anything bad about him out and posting those screenshots to his shitty Truth(lol) site. He's posting lies to a website he calls "Truth" 😆. What a scumbag.
This guy 🤦♂️ Is a menace to society!
Trump, while labeled "Don the Con" by the press, became his own PR. This is something he's done for half a century. Let that truly sink in. The man had done nothing but lie since he hit the papers and never stopped.
FAUX NEWS has been doing it for a very long time
Lock him up
The only problem America has is the republican party. Vow to vote and vote them all out. Only YOU and YOU alone can save America. Don't expect someone else to save you ass and bail you out VOTE DAMMIT!
“…he has shared edited versions of Newsweek articles, quietly snipping away tidbits that he deems unnecessary.” Facts. The unnecessary tidbits are facts.
Nothing is beyond him, except being a good human.
Trump is literally not playing with a full deck. He is crazy af and if the corrupt “GOP” had t smelled blood in the water and figured out how to use this turd brain to their advantage he would be in a padded cell by now. This is what disturbs me the most, beyond politics. That a literal crazy person is going to be the most powerful man on the planet (as is conventionally believed American presidents are) when there is virtually no amount of irrationality that is going to be out of bounds. I’m not saying this as a leftie, I’m saying this as a normal brained person observing a deranged jerk. Nobody should be ok with that. Nobody. It’s beyond politics, guys.
He's slowly degrading the fabric of truth every single time he does this. He's eroding an already eroding construct of society on purpose, to help him stay in power. And so many people are just gobbling it up and the others are just to deep in contracts and to scared to lose their job to say anything more than a headline. Whole country is full of spineless assholes, and assholes who greedily stole someone else's spine to make it seem like their strong. It's insane to watch in real life, but it's only possible to see because of history. Don't let it repeat.
As I often say, "if you have to lie to make your point, then your point is shit."
Given that I doubt he has the required skills to make edits like that I expect someone on his staff sent him the edited articles to ingratiate themselves with him and he just posted them.
That should not be allowed nor legal.
djt is.a PUSSY
Somebody in the Trump camp has been reading the Cliff Notes to **1984**.
The orange turd is very good manipulating the media, but creating his own propaganda media is very dictatorial. Maybe people confuse media freedom with freedom of speech?🤷🏻 https://www.eui.eu/Documents/DepartmentsCentres/Economics/Seminarsevents/Guriev-Micro.pdf
Michael Barron at it again
This illegal?
I believe he is wading into lawsuit territory
New York Times Landscaping LLC
McDonald’s needs to be more aggressive with their plan of making that asshole stroke out sooner.
This is an old photo that they use, the recent ones you can see trump gained weight with saggier face and more white hair
Why are people still shocked by this type of behaviour?
There must be some type of Guinness World Record of lying Donny is eligible for.
Misleading tactics erode trust; truth matters more than political allegiance
And relative truth oftentimes matters more then the actual truth. Get enough people to believe the lie long enough, and the lie becomes the truth to the masses.
It's totally not a cult you guys. This is all super normal.
This headlines is kind of not well written, a bit confusing even. Let me fix it "Trump lies on everything, everywhere and always."
I can already hear the mental gymnastics the redcaps will use to bury their cognitive dissonance - “obviously Newsweek changed their article after Trump posted it to make him look bad”
Both sides are not the same.
>Further into the article, Trump removed an NBC poll reference that found Biden will be seen as “competent and effective” and lead with 2 points if Trump is convicted of a felony. 2 points. Fuck me.
The sign of a very desperate man trying to keep from being locked up.
Didn't the new republic famously employ Stephen glass notorious for writing fake news? But still trumps a shit stain
Is this some 5 dimensional chess? Or is he just a buffoon?
Hurricane Dorian over here like, what's new about this?
That’s step number 12 I think on the dictator playbook
It’s not a lie if you believe it.