Trump: "Any negative polls are fake news"

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[I_am_not_mafia]

It would be hilarious if he addressed parliament. Only the Tories would turn up, the other parties would boycott it. And this would look really bad for the Tories because Trump is really unpopular in the UK. Especially in Scotland.

Of course the White House would argue that the house was completely full and say that any photos of the other side of the house with the empty seats was fake news. Oh and that a record number of MPs turned up and that there had never been that number of MPs before.

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It would be hilarious if he addressed parliament. Only the Tories would turn up, the other parties would boycott it. And this would look really bad for the Tories because Trump is really unpopular in the UK. Especially in Scotland.

Of course the White House would argue that the house was completely full and say that any photos of the other side of the house with the empty seats was fake news. Oh and that a record number of MPs turned up and that there had never been that number of MPs before.

YUUUGE number of MPs

[Pat Mustard]

So they are doubling down that reporting any sort of disagreement with the current administration is an attack and also fake news.

Truly Orwellian. I hope the media fights this attempt to silence them and turn them into Trump propaganda channels tooth and nail.

More reminiscent of a toddler throwing their toys out the pram than of an Orwellian manoeuvre. To be Orwellian one must show a semblance of cunning at the very least, broadcasting that you're lying constantly is thick as shit.

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[Thumpalumpacus]

So they are doubling down that reporting any sort of disagreement with the current administration is an attack and also fake news.

Truly Orwellian. I hope the media fights this attempt to silence them and turn them into Trump propaganda channels tooth and nail.

More reminiscent of a toddler throwing their toys out the pram than of an Orwellian manoeuvre. To be Orwellian one must show a semblance of cunning at the very least, broadcasting that you're lying constantly is thick as shit.

The way I see it, this is a concentrated effort to undermine what trust is left in Americans for the press -- it's a medium-to-long-term gambit to eliminate the check that a free press exercises on government, not by legislating it, but by sowing suspicion.

[Aegon]

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[Thumpalumpacus]

Reducing or eliminating public trust in any competing institutions is the hallmark of the power-mad. Took no great insight on my part, to be sure.

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