Tweets on the White House Correspondents Dinner

While we debate whether the comedian at the press dinner told appropriate jokes, Trump has managed to convince millions of Americans that the press is the “enemy of the American people.” https://t.co/r8db5r6cU3

— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) April 29, 2018

I would argue that’s more a problem with Twitter as a medium than anything people individually posted on it. https://t.co/89rpiUllxI

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 29, 2018

First question at the WH briefing should be: “Sarah, considering how you may have felt during the comedy routine at the WHCA dinner last night, can you understand how offensive the President’s words about Muslims, Mexicans, women, paralympians, Chuck Todd are? Will he stop?”

— Dan Shapiro (@DanielBShapiro) April 29, 2018

This was, to me, the most important line in her speech https://t.co/jwepRjRj76

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) April 29, 2018

I agree with @RepJeffries. It’s fine to mock what others say and do, but now how they look or sound. Such ad hominem or ad feminam attacks do much more harm than good. https://t.co/zn05ecAUyX

— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) April 29, 2018

Sarah Sanders needs to suck it up. She spends her days lying and making excuses for a guy who once called Miss Universe "Miss Piggy" and made her exercise for TV cameras. When she can't justify what he says, she claims he was joking. What she and her boss never do, is apologize.

— Facts Do Matter (@WilDonnelly) April 29, 2018

Deleted my WHCD tweet b/c I don't want to start parsing the jokes. My point is this: Responding to objections to X by Trump supporters by saying Trump is worse than X is whataboutism. If you want to defend the jokes or comedy or whatever, fine, but whataboutism is a weak argument

— Brendan Nyhan (@BrendanNyhan) April 29, 2018

Both still attended the NBC/MSNBC after party: pic.twitter.com/u9sw6mKDiV

— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) April 29, 2018

I attended the WHCD last night. Donald Trump has so poisoned the atmosphere by attacking the disabled, gold star parents, Muslims, Mexicans, Blacks, women, the press, the rule of law that a comedian who simply tells the truth is offensive? She’s joking. He’s not.

— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) April 29, 2018

Students walk out of speech: mocks them as “children fleeing from political speech that they disagree with,” also talks about the importance of “learning to listen to a different POV.”

A comedian says a joke that gave him the sads: [marches out, tells the world, safe space, etc] pic.twitter.com/hmnGsgv12b

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) April 29, 2018

The right wing attacked the media before Trump

This is a good history of the roots of right wing attacks on the media that have become wore widespread under Trump.

Poll on the news media

Poll asks which is closer to your view: news media is the enemy of the people or an important part of democracy?

Democrats: 91% important part of democracy, 3% enemy of the people

Republicans: 51% enemy of the people, 37% important part of democracyhttps://t.co/z7R4WTw9mc

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) April 26, 2018

Washington Post analysis

51% of Republicans think the news media is the enemy of the people. Scary. Sad!

Kanye West

Great tweet by Torrey Smith which, without being explicit, compares the right’s reaction to Kanye West to Laura Ingraham’s comments on LeBron James and Kevin Durant.

I don’t see the #MAGA crowd telling Kanye to stick to music…..Why?…because they agree with him

— Torrey Smith (@TorreySmithWR) April 26, 2018

Trump’s rant on Fox & Friends

Ronny Jackson needs to give Trump some sedatives.

Interview annotated with commentary from the Washington Post. He’s still talking about his Electoral College victory and how the media didn’t predict it!

Here’s an analysis from Esquire. They called it “…the presidential equivalent of an old, cantankerous Jets fan calling into WFAN…”

CNN opinion column

CNN analysis

Washington Post opinion column

Great take here, Hugh. Counter-argument would be: They asked him what he got Melania for her birthday, he had no answer, then his rant about Cohen was used against him 2 hours later in Federal Court because Trump stupidly fucked up his own legal defense because he's a moron. https://t.co/vQhIJXCzGz

— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) April 26, 2018

Fox News twisted the words of CNN’s Jim Acosta

Fox News distorted Acosta’s remarks. Sad!

Hannity updates

Even some Fox News employees are upset.

Hannity “…allegedly received help from the US Department for Housing and Urban Development to carry out multimillion dollar real estate deals…”

Hannity influences Trump and might as well work in the White House.

Trump repeats views he saw on Fox News.

I can’t summarize this one!

Hannity and Trump talk on the phone often

Yet Fox will do nothing! Sad!

Christian TV is boosting Trump

From the article I linked to below: “Christian broadcasters have rewarded Trump not just with airtime for his surrogates, but with uncritical, often defensive coverage of his administration.”

This article points out how Christian TV is supporting Trump

Trump and Maggie Haberman

Trump attacked Maggie Haberman of the New York Times for her reporting on Michael Cohen and Trump’s shabby treatment of him. Trump responded by tweeting that he doesn’t speak to her. This article includes a tweet with a picture of Trump and Haberman similar to the tweet below.

"who I don’t speak to and have nothing to do with.." pic.twitter.com/972GAcsxYp

— Michael S. Schmidt (@nytmike) April 21, 2018

Trump lies again.

President Trump, in a series of tweets, criticized this article that described his years of poor treatment of his longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.

We stand by our reporting. https://t.co/2UvbpGY4iJ

— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 21, 2018

Haberman fought back.

She also added this:

When I was reporting this story, I said to one person who’s observed the Cohen-Trump relationship that Trump has been abusive to him. The person replied, “He’s abusive to everybody.” https://t.co/coxNMRVCUl

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) April 21, 2018

How can Trump expect loyalty when he treats people badly? Why would anyone work for him?

And if Trump will openly lie about something that's so easy to disprove, what's that say about everything else? https://t.co/wtpgr763QQ

— Astead (@AsteadWesley) April 22, 2018

Sad!

Focus on issues, not Stormy Daniels

This excellent column points out that the attention the media has given to Daniels, Cohen and Comey makes it harder to focus on issues such as the economy.

The column states:

“The intense media attention on Trump’s personal deficiencies might not actually move many more voters than they already have, and the economic message pushed by Democrats—one that’s rooted, in part, in the tax bill—is having a hard time breaking through.”

Sad!