The Donald Trump thread

Cuchulainn2016

Kingfisher
That CNN reporter is an archetype of your typical angry feminist millenial trained to be snarky. Annoying to watch. Still Trump is being Trump with certain unrealistic and bombastic claims.

"I'll end the Ukraine war in 1 day" and the guy in the audience claps like a cult follower.

It will take more than a day buddy. Maybe he can meet Putin and try to hash out an agreement in a day, but with Trump it's always overpromise and underdeliver.
He was pretty good as a peacemaker last time he was President.
 

Samseau

Peacock
Orthodox
Gold Member
Trump is more popular because he's not on Twitter. The fake news won't show Truth social posts, so now Trump's highly offensive comments stay locked away out of sight, out of mind. When the public does finally see Trump, they see him in his best element, which is TV. Instead of Trump fatigue people get short bursts of Trump, just enough to entertain, and then Trump goes back to being quiet. Now we have Trump famine and people are eager for the next Trump appearance.

I notice far less rabid TDS among normies than how it was when Trump was on Twitter. Plus the 2 years of COVID really nuked people's minds, Twitter Trump is becoming ancient history.

I think it's going to work huge in his advantage, which is why Trump keeps climbing in the polls. Normally, Trump would tweet something after a public appearance that would turn off a lot of potential voters. Instead, he's totally silent and the next time people will see Trump is at a rally or made-for-TV appearance.

Being off Twitter has actually made Trump more presidential, not that he's especially classy. But considering Trump's strengths, the Twitter ban helps him tremendously because he is no longer fanning the flames of hate. We're already seeing it with this townhall, but the fake news will have a much harder time vilifying Trump without being able to blow up his tweets this election.
 

Uzisuicide

Kingfisher
Protestant
Gold Member
Warner Bros. Discovery (parent company of CNN) dived 5% today following last night's 'performance'.

Amazing that corporations don't seem to care about profit motive anymore (i.e. Disney). They are now agenda driven and survive off of garbage debt from the fractional reserve banking system.

How this system hasn't collapsed yet is stunning to me.
 

Thomas More

Crow
Protestant
Warner Bros. Discovery (parent company of CNN) dived 5% today following last night's 'performance'.
What a strange name for that company. Decades ago, there used to be a channel on cable TV called the Discovery channel. It had all kinds of interesting shows about science, technology, space, advances in health, different cultures, and stuff like that.

However, after a while, it decayed into garbage like reality shows about wedding planning, psychics, and other super dumb stuff.

Meanwhile, Warner Brothers was one of the great Hollywood studios back in the Golden Age of cinema.

WB eventually became a big conglomerate, and then they were bought by America Online (AOL) in the dawn of the internet era, which would be like Tesla using it's super high stock value as a newcomer to the car industry to purchase GM. Musk could have easily done this. GM's market cap is the same as what he paid for Twitter.

Anyway, AOL immediately became a has-been flop right after forming AOL Time Warner, and gradually disappeared from the company name. Somewhere in there, CNN was a big piece of the company as well, before they fizzled to their current zombie form.

Anyway now the company is named after that old cable TV channel, of all things.

The name of the company is like a microcosm of the history of media companies in the past 100 years, only they got stuck about 20 years ago.

Maybe Twitter will buy them and it will become Warner Bros Twitter.
 

Johnnyvee

Ostrich
Other Christian
Ratings.

Trump is always a media ratings bonanza.

CNN has been hemorrhaging ratings for a while now.

And with Fox committing ratings suicide and viewers needing some media fix, this is a chance to grab some viewers, even if they all don't stay.

They have been calling Trump a rapist, white supremacist, traitor, most dangerous man alive, worst president ever etc. for years now. Isn't it unlikely that they would sacrifice their agenda to give Trump a chance? Unless the return of Trump is part of the agenda? I thought most here agreed that profits are secondary to pushing the narrative.
 

scorpion

Pelican
Gold Member
Trump had a fantastic performance at the town hall, which was entirely predictable given the choice of format, which featured a friendly crowd and a hostile host. You couldn't ask for a better setup for Trump's particular brand of political showmanship, which relies on clowning the media while playing to the crowd with zingers and one-liners (anyone remember when Samseau said that Trump vs. moderator is "extremely boring viewing" and that Trump had nothing to gain by going up directly against hostile members of the media? :laugh: Samseau, we await your mea culpa).

The rank and file liberals are of course apoplectic after Trump's performance, being true believers afflicted with an incurable case of TDS. But I think that the more senior elements of the Democrat party and the Deep State are thrilled with what they saw. They're confident they can boost Trump to the nomination by helping to increase his popularity with the Republican base, at the same time they hobble him with baseless lawsuits (more on the way after this recent ridiculous judgment against him, which will certainly be used in the general to smear him among low information voters as a "convicted rapist").

Make no mistake, this is their ONLY strategy for 2024. Joe Biden is a historically inept and unpopular President who poll numbers are catastrophically bad, even among his own party. The southern border is being invaded. The economy is in free fall. We continue to blunder around in Ukraine on the precipice of WW3. This President's performance is literally indefensible.

And that's exactly why the Democrats and the Deep State want Donald Trump as the Republican nominee.

Because he's the only man alive who can distract people from the fact that Joe Biden is a complete and utter disaster in the White House. So they will continue to give Trump attention and air time (you could have said this was an unknowing mistake the media made in 2015-16, but not in 2023 - if they put Trump on television at this point they know exactly what they're doing and are doing it on purpose) to do their best to keep his name in the news and boost him to the nomination. It all comes down to one simple fact: if people are talking about Donald Trump, they aren't talking about Joe Biden and his disastrous Presidency.
 

Johnnyvee

Ostrich
Other Christian
Your joking right?

CNN loves trump because they make more money when he is in the news, more eyeballs means more dollars.

Trump can’t seem to say no to any publicity.

Edit looks like you guys already nailed it

But that would also mean that they don't care if Trump is president again, no? Since they increase the chances of that happening by "giving him a platform." They've blocked him from everything until very recently also. The question is; was this a glitch in the matrix, or was it just the matrix doing it's thing?
 
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eradicator

Crow
Agnostic
Gold Member
But that would also mean that they don't care if Trump is president again, no? Since they increase the chances of that happening by "giving him a platform." They've blocked him from everything until very recently also. The question is; was this a glitch in the matrix, or was it just the matrix doing it's thing?

Again you’re kidding right? CNN cares. If there is anyone who wants Trump to get elected it’s cnn. Their network may go under if no one watches. They get eyeballs on their stories, and advertising dollars that go with it if they are running all trump all the time. Make no mistake they want another Trump presidency more than anyone.
 

Enoch

Ostrich
Again you’re kidding right? CNN cares. If there is anyone who wants Trump to get elected it’s cnn. Their network may go under if no one watches. They get eyeballs on their stories, and advertising dollars that go with it if they are running all trump all the time. Make no mistake they want another Trump presidency more than anyone.
The purpose of the media is not to make money.
 

homersheineken

Pelican
Protestant
Ratings.

Trump is always a media ratings bonanza.

CNN has been hemorrhaging ratings for a while now.

And with Fox committing ratings suicide and viewers needing some media fix, this is a chance to grab some viewers, even if they all don't stay.

According to Mediaite, citing Nielsen Fast National data, CNN scored 3.12 million total viewers - of which a whopping 703,000 were from the coveted 25-54 age demographic.

Fox News came in second place for the night, with 1.412 million viewers, followed by MSNBC, which had 1.372 million. In the 25-54 demo, MSNBC topped Fox with 155,000 vs. 125,000 viewers.
 

Aldebaran

Robin
Protestant
They have been calling Trump a rapist, white supremacist, traitor, most dangerous man alive, worst president ever etc. for years now. Isn't it unlikely that they would sacrifice their agenda to give Trump a chance? Unless the return of Trump is part of the agenda? I thought most here agreed that profits are secondary to pushing the narrative.

Do not underestimate their stupidity. They probably thought that this was going to be a disaster for Trump.

The left only started schreeching after Trump had wiped the floor with the media as usual.
 

Road2Damascus

Robin
Orthodox Inquirer
From what I'm reading and it seems harder and harder to get accurate information is that she accused him of rape which didn't fly and now was found guilty for 'sexual abuse' or is that wrong? In the case that it is does that mean that he say saw her in the store and grabbed her behind or something?
 
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