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So a certain stable genius attacked his own White House on foreign surveillance policy after watching "Fox and Friends"...
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-attacks-fisa-white-house-pass-warrant-702-2018-1
... he then walked back his statement once someone told him how stupid it was.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/11/trump-knocks-fisa-law-links-it-to-phony-dossier.html
Also, if you want to read more about Trump's viewing relationship with Fox and Friends, check out this article: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/05/trump-media-feedback-loop-216248
Full article at link. It's quite the read.
He then tweeted a Quinnipac poll which recorded extremely high satisfaction with the economy...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...le-voters-opinion-us-presidents-a8153346.html
... not mentioning that the poll quite clearly showed that the public credits the approval of the economy to Barack Obama. The poll even shows that the longer Trump derps up the White House, the more the public is inclined to credit the sturdy economy to his predecessor.
Earlier, Trump had bragged that his powerful negotiations with the Democrats were so successful that news anchors were sending him letters of congratulations. When pressed for proof of this by Jim Acosta, The White House released a list of two CNN videos and 19 tweets, some of which merely stated the sentiment that Trump didn't entirely shit the bed.
And, because I don't know any other thread to put it in, Carrier laid off another 215 people yesterday. Since Trump announced his ridiculous Carrier deal as a publicity stunt in the election, the company has laid off 600 workers, almost 40% of its workforce, despite the incredible amount of money the state funneled their way to provide Trump and Pence with a photo op. It's going to lay off 700 more workers later this year, moving the jobs to Mexico.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...50bc3300042_story.html?utm_term=.a6b99297ab8c
This reminds me of the companies that fired hundreds of workers as they gave their workers "tax cut bonuses" to hype Trump's tax cuts.
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-attacks-fisa-white-house-pass-warrant-702-2018-1
President Donald Trump on Thursday criticized the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, hours after the White House press secretary released a statement saying the administration supported the law and opposed an amendment that would impose limits on it.
"'House votes on controversial FISA ACT today,'" Trump tweeted, referring to a chyron earlier Thursday on "Fox & Friends," the Fox News morning show he often watches and praises for its coverage of him.
"This is the act that may have been used, with the help of the discredited and phony Dossier, to so badly surveil and abuse the Trump Campaign by the previous administration and others?" he continued.
On the show, Judge Andrew Napolitano, a frequent Fox News contributor, said: "Mr. President, this is not the way to go. Spying is valid to find the foreign agents among us. But it's got to be based on suspicion and not an area code."
Trump's tweet appeared to contradict the statement that the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, released on Wednesday night signaling the administration's strong support for FISA.
... he then walked back his statement once someone told him how stupid it was.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/11/trump-knocks-fisa-law-links-it-to-phony-dossier.html
Trump's opposition, though, didn't last long. Later Thursday morning, he posted a follow-up tweet clarifying that he has sought changes to the law and voicing support for the surveillance program.
"With that being said, I have personally directed the fix to the unmasking process since taking office and today’s vote is about foreign surveillance of foreign bad guys on foreign land. We need it! Get smart!" he tweeted.
It was an apparent attempt to get back on the same page with his own administration, which backs the so-called 702 program up for renewal in a House vote Thursday.
Also, if you want to read more about Trump's viewing relationship with Fox and Friends, check out this article: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/01/05/trump-media-feedback-loop-216248
It’s no secret, of course, that the president likes to tweet about what he sees on TV. Thanks to diligent reporting from the White House beat, we know Trump often watches several hours of cable news each day via the “Super TiVo” he had installed at the White House. And journalists at CNN, the Washington Post, New York magazine, among others, have compiled lists of Trump tweets they believe were inspired by Fox.
But here’s what is shocking: After comparing the president’s tweets with Fox's coverage every day since October, I can tell you that the Fox-Trump feedback loop is happening far more often than you think. There is no strategy to Trump’s Twitter feed; he is not trying to distract the media. Heis being distracted. He darts with quark-like speed from topic to topic in his tweets because that’s how cable news works.
Here’s what’s also shocking: A man with unparalleled access to the world’s most powerful information-gathering machine, with an intelligence budget estimated at $73 billion last year, prefers to rely on conservative cable news hosts to understand current events.
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Many of the president’s most vicious tweets, which often baffle observers because they seem to come out of nowhere, make more sense when you realize that they are actually his responses to Fox’s programming.
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But not all of the Trump tweets match with Fox segments that praise the president and thrash his perceived enemies. There are some random ones, too.
Remember that strange moment in October when Trump tried to tweet happy birthday to the country music artist Lee Greenwood? He tagged the wrong handle, deleted the tweet, and sent out a corrected version while the rest of Twitter tried to figure out what was going on. The event is easier to understand if you know that about an hour before Trump sent his initial tweet, Fox & Friends reported it was Greenwood’s birthday:
Full article at link. It's quite the read.
He then tweeted a Quinnipac poll which recorded extremely high satisfaction with the economy...
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...le-voters-opinion-us-presidents-a8153346.html
Donald Trump has hailed a poll that suggested two thirds of Americans are happy with the country’s economy, but did not mention it also found that more voters hold Barack Obama responsible.
In the second of the US President’s customary early-morning tweets on Thursday, he said: “In new Quinnipiac Poll, 66% of people feel the economy is ‘Excellent or Good.’ That is the highest number ever recorded by this poll.”
However, the former reality show star chose not to highlight a separate finding from the survey, which indicated 49 per cent of Americans believed Mr Obama was more responsible for the current US economy compared to 40 per cent who thought the Republican deserved most credit.
The figures showed the proportion of voters crediting Mr Trump’s predecessor for the state of the economy has grown steadily from 43 per cent two months ago.
... not mentioning that the poll quite clearly showed that the public credits the approval of the economy to Barack Obama. The poll even shows that the longer Trump derps up the White House, the more the public is inclined to credit the sturdy economy to his predecessor.
Earlier, Trump had bragged that his powerful negotiations with the Democrats were so successful that news anchors were sending him letters of congratulations. When pressed for proof of this by Jim Acosta, The White House released a list of two CNN videos and 19 tweets, some of which merely stated the sentiment that Trump didn't entirely shit the bed.
And, because I don't know any other thread to put it in, Carrier laid off another 215 people yesterday. Since Trump announced his ridiculous Carrier deal as a publicity stunt in the election, the company has laid off 600 workers, almost 40% of its workforce, despite the incredible amount of money the state funneled their way to provide Trump and Pence with a photo op. It's going to lay off 700 more workers later this year, moving the jobs to Mexico.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...50bc3300042_story.html?utm_term=.a6b99297ab8c
This reminds me of the companies that fired hundreds of workers as they gave their workers "tax cut bonuses" to hype Trump's tax cuts.