
I’m the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters. – Donald Trump
Foxnews.com reports that
Few voters approve of President Trump’s tweeting, and most agree it’s making his job harder.
Seventy-one percent say the president’s tweets are hurting his agenda, according to the latest Fox News Poll. Just 17 percent see the tweets as helpful.
The poll was conducted Sunday through Tuesday evenings — before a tweet by President Trump about MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski received significant media coverage Thursday morning.
Do voters consider the president’s online posts official statements? Close call: 51 percent say yes vs. 45 percent no.
Overall, only 13 percent approve of Trump’s tweeting. It was 16 percent in March. Forty-six percent disapprove, while 39 percent take the middle ground and “wish he’d be more cautious.”
Among Republicans, 21 percent approve, while 59 percent would like Trump to be more careful with his tweets and 18 percent disapprove.
Majorities across the board say Trump’s tweets are hurting his agenda, although Democrats (87 percent) and independents (75 percent) are far more likely than Republicans (53 percent) to see it that way.
Over half of Democrats (59 percent) say the tweets are official presidential statements, while over half of Republicans say they aren’t (52 percent).
The Fox News poll is based on landline and cellphone interviews with 1,017 randomly chosen registered voters nationwide and was conducted under the joint direction of Anderson Robbins Research (D) and Shaw & Company Research (R) from June 25-27, 2017. The poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus three percentage points for all registered voters.
We live in a “brave new world”, of that there is no doubt.
The vast majority of Americans own cellphones…and are on Twitter.
Yes, the 140 characters contained in a “Tweet” are definitely not the most eloquent way for a President to be communicating with the American Public, but they are clear, concise, and immediate.
There is no room for “weasel words” in a “Tweet”, unlike the addresses of the individual who occupied the Oval Office before President Trump.
Heck, Obama gave long speeches just so he could refer to himself ad infinitum in them.
According to the Media Research Center, 89 percent of broadcast networks’ coverage of President Donald J. Trump has been negative.
From January 20 to April 9, 1,501 on-air statements about Trump made by experts, carefully selected voters, and reporters were negative, compared to just 186 positive, the study found.
Unfortunately, President-elect Trump will never be able to please the Main Stream Media.
Nor should he have to.
The Presidency of the United States of America is the most important leadership position on the Face of God’s Green Earth.
The Main Stream Media knows that.
The problem is, the Main Stream Media is still having a conniption fit (Southern colloquialism for being upset over something to the point insanity) over the election of Donald J. Trump as the next President by us rubes here in Flyover Country.
In fact, they are so upset that they have retaliated by publishing fictional stories, attributed to “unnamed sources.
That is why they continue to try to bring down Trump.
They are behaving like spoiled little brats who need a timeout.
And, judging from the TV Ratings of their newscasts and the rapidly dwindling r4eadership of Liberal Newspapers and Magazines, Americans are giving them one.
Meanwhile, POTUS is turning up the heat on them via his prolific use of Twitter and blunt, to-the-point evisceration of those who wish him to fail.
So, is this just “tacky teasing” or is it a “terrific tactic”?
Actually, I believe that it is a bit of both.
While President Trump is posting his never-ending tweets, he is simultaneously working hard to fulfill his campaign promises, as exemplified by the passage of Kate’s Law and the
That represented a monumental step forward in the fight against those illegals who are murdering actual Americans in cold blood.
The Liberal reaction of both anger and false “concern” about the 45th President’s prolific use of Twitter reminds me of a strategy or “tactic” which can be seen in the 1982 movie, “Rocky III’, in a scene in which Rocky “The Italian Stallion” Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) is fighting his heart out in the late stages of a “revenge” match against the animalistic Clubber Lang (Mr. T).
Beaten until he seemingly cannot stand anymore, Rocky starts teasing Clubber to hit him with his best shot. Clubber hits him time and again, while a seemingly-unfazed Rocky taunts him, saying, “You ain’t so bad”.
Eventually Clubber wears himself out, giving Rocky the opportunity to beat the living daylights out of him, leaving Clubber lying in the middle of the ring.
By teasing his opponent into a blinding rage, Rocky was able to accomplish his goal of winning back the World Heavyweight Championship.
By teasing the Democrat Party and their Propaganda Arm, the Main Stream Media, in a similar fashion, President Trump has made them vulnerable, just as Rocky made Clubber, as this past week has shown with the revelations that CNN knew that the Russian Collaboration Story was nothing but a lie, and yet continued to attempt to bring down Trump with that “Fake News” anyway.
Trump is not a professional politicians. He thinks like an average American, saying and tweeting what is on his mind.
Tacky teasing? Most definitely.
Terrific tactic? Most assuredly.
Isn’t Modern Technology wonderful?
Until He Comes,
KJ