Politics : Trump Calls Press 'Dishonest,' Then Utters Falsehoods of His Own

Clown in Chief.

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Trump Calls Press Dishonest, Then Utters Falsehoods of His Own

By NICHOLAS FANDOSFEB. 16, 2017


WASHINGTON President Trump took aim at reporters on Thursday for more than an hour at an impromptu White House news conference.

The press has become so dishonest, he said, and not talking about it would be doing a tremendous disservice to the American people. He added that the level of dishonesty is out of control.

In accusing the news media, though, Mr. Trump uttered several falsehoods of his own. Here is a list of some of the most important.


It was the biggest Electoral College win since Ronald Reagan.

Mr. Trump won 306 Electoral College votes, well above the threshold needed to secure the presidency but well behind several of his most recent predecessors. President Barack Obama won 332 Electoral College votes in 2012 and 365 four years earlier. President Bill Clinton received 370 Electoral College votes in 1992 and 379 in 1996. And President George Bush won 426 Electoral College votes in 1988.

When a reporter pressed Mr. Trump on the claim, he laid the blame elsewhere. I was given that information, he said.

That circuit is in chaos and that circuit is frankly in turmoil.

Mr. Trump said the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, which upheld a temporary restraining order on his targeted travel ban, was in chaos.

There is no evidence of that. The Ninth Circuits decision in the travel ban case was unanimous.

Mr. Trump also claimed that the court was a circuit that has been overturned at a record number. He was apparently referring to the Ninth Circuits reversal rate, which the president cited correctly: I find that hard to believe, that is just a number I heard, that they are overturned 80 percent of the time.

PolitiFact found that of the cases the Supreme Court took up from the Ninth Circuit, about 79 percent were reversed from 2010 to 2015.

But that was not the highest rate among the nations 13 appeals courts. The Sixth Circuit (87 percent) and 11th Circuit (85 percent) each had a greater percentage of decisions reversed. For all appellate court cases in that period, the Supreme Court reversed decisions about 70 percent of the time.

Our administration inherited many problems across government and across the economy. To be honest, I inherited a mess.

By most definitions, the economy is not a mess, nor is it in recession. The unemployment rate in January was 4.8 percent, compared with 7.8 percent in January 2009, when Mr. Obama took office.

Last month, the economy added 227,000 jobs, even though the unemployment rate is already low. The number of people filing new claims for jobless benefits continues to hit lows not seen in decades.

Other measures suggest the same thing, as our colleagues at The Upshot report: The economy seems to be taking off.

But a new Rasmussen poll just came out just a very short while ago, and it has our approval rating at 55 percent and going up.

Mr. Trump correctly cited the daily presidential tracking poll by Rasmussen. But the poll is an outlier, giving Mr. Trump an approval rating several points higher than others in the field. Real Clear Politics average of approval ratings finds that 44.6 percent of Americans approve of the job Mr. Trump is doing, compared with 50.3 percent who disapprove.

Gallups daily job approval tracker puts Mr. Trumps approval rating at 40 percent, the lowest since he has taken office, and disapproval at 54 percent.

Thirty-nine percent of respondents to a Pew Research Center poll released on Tuesday approve of Mr. Trumps performance, while 56 percent disapproved.

Trump accuses the media of dishonesty to cover up his own dishonesty. It's a cheap ploy.

#NotMyPresident

Then why won't they report the truth?

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

They just did, in the very post you are replying to.

Nope the media isn't a reliable source of information, as they lie more than they tell the truth.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

I'm not arguing the media should be believed on the whole, since they are beholden to sponsors and shareholders, and therefore any news they report has to go through stringent filters.

But in this case, this conversation, Trump himself said they reported real news, while at the same time calling them fake news.

They lied about the news reported which proves it to be fake.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Now you're saying the press lied about what they reported? or something?

Can you never stop and think for even a moment before replying? Your Trump said the leaks were real. He said so. In the same breath he said the news is fake, despite the news they reporting being real by his own admission.

Good christ dude, you are one obstinately annoying block of inert matter sometimes.

Yes the press lied about the fact of the matter at hand.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

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Trump himself said they reported real news, while at the same time calling them fake news.

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Yes exactly.

He claims the LEAKS are TRUE, but the NEWS REPORTS about them ARE NOT.

MAKES NO SENSE whatsoever.

It does when they don't report the right information about the leaks.

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

^ Called Herman Cain a "porch monkey," a "house n!gger," and a "lawn jockey."

Both statements are true:

Trump talks a whole lot of absolute bullsh!t, outright lies and makes stuff up all the time.

Most of the mass media "journalists" are active Democrats and/or liberals who dishonestly abandon professional principles to damage Republicans/conservatives.





Leftist philosophy and policies deny both human nature and reality

He's WORSE than a CLOWN.

He MAKES NO SENSE at all when he CLAIMS the LEAKS are the PROBLEM, not THE CONTENT of the LEAKS about him and his STAFF being PUTIN'S PUPPETS.

But if the NEWS REPORTS are WRONG

then WHY would he care about the LEAKING???

He obviously CARES about the LEAKS because they're TRUE.

Or else he wouldn't be SO DEFENSIVE or UPSET about them now.

So he also completely CONTRADICTS himself when he claims the LEAKS to the PRESS are FAKE and claims what they print is FALSE.

And then continues to be upset by what he claims are the FALSE NEWS REPORTS based upon the LEAKS which he ADMITS are TRUE.

So IF the LEAKS are TRUE, obviously the NEWS REPORTS about them are also TRUE.



And he also reminds one of TRICKY DICK who also kept saying:

I AM NOT A CROOK

when he also CHEATED the government out of $450,000 in INCOME TAXES.

Anyone ACTING OUT the way he did definitely has SOMETHING to hide.

Because we've also seen this kind of ACT before that he's putting on now back during the WATERGATE SCANDAL.

Exactly.




Farewell Transmission

Apparently Kellyanne is giving him the statistics. We know how unreliable she is.



Serious leaders don't Tweet.