Trump takes on media during Coast Guard commencement speech

[flowers]

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/17/trump-takes-on-media-during-coast-guard-commencement-speech.html

President Trump took on his media critics Wednesday toward the end of a commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, telling the graduating class not to let the “naysayers get in the way of your dreams.”

Trump’s speech at the USCG Academy in New London, Conn., was his second address of the 2017 graduation season, and the first public appearance since new allegations concerning the Russia probe surfaced.

Trump’s address, thanking the class for their service, also included some “advice,” which echoed the same approach he applied to his campaign and his presidency.

“Over the course of your life, you will find that things are not always fair and that things happen to you that you do not deserve, and that are not always warranted, but you have to put your head down and fight, fight, fight,” Trump said, saying that “no politician in history has been treated worse or more unfairly” by the media.

[corbe]

“Over the course of your life, you will find that things are not always fair and that things happen to you that you do not deserve, and that are not always warranted, but you have to put your head down and fight, fight, fight,” Trump said, saying that “no politician in history has been treated worse or more unfairly” by the media.

   I disagree Mr. President, all of your Republican predecessors since at least Nixon have been eviscerated by the press and I may be wrong, but I don't recall any of them 'whining' about it to USCG Grads.

[DiogenesLamp]

   I disagree Mr. President, all of your Republican predecessors since at least Nixon have been eviscerated by the press and I may be wrong, but I don't recall any of them 'whining' about it to USCG Grads.

"Watergate"  was a made up phoney baloney artificial crises created by the media which succeeded in taking down a President.   


The media deliberately screwed George HW Bush out of a second term. 


The media has been more effective against other Presidents,   but I think it's a fair statement to say they have never been more unfair to a President.   


They are doing things to Trump they have never done to anyone else in terms of range and scale.   It's just having less of an effect than in the past because now people realize the New York/Washington Media cartel is a pack of unscrupulous liars who have been manipulating elections,  and people aren't buying it anymore. 

[geronl]

Whining and complaining is not "taking on" and it's also not part of the job of President to worry about the press.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Listen to the President before reacting to it from a kneejerk:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oh9xksNvgE



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oh9xksNvgE

[corbe]

   I can't @Right_in_Virginia I'm still in Rehab.

[Bigun]

Meanwhile there is this:

https://spectator.org/the-sabotaging-of-the-president/

[beandog]

Listen to the President before reacting to it from a kneejerk:/quote]

You do know that even if they listened to it, they'd only hear what they want to hear.  Some people are making a career out of "cutting off their nose to spite their face".   The media is corrupt and they deserve every slam made against them.

[Suppressed]

They are doing things to Trump they have never done to anyone else in terms of range and scale.

Because others haven't been dumb enough to keep sticking their head into the nooses.

[DiogenesLamp]

Because others haven't been dumb enough to keep sticking their head into the nooses.

You mean like Bill Clinton,   who dodged the draft,  protested his own nation during the Vietnam War,  toured Russia and the Nations behind the Iron curtain while staying with communists,   used State police officers to help him sneak sluts and whores into the State House,   Lied about smoking weed,   used the power of his office to intimidate women into having sex with him,   became sexually involved with an employee in the White House and then lied about it under Oath,  Sold Secrets to China in exchange for campaign contributions,   closed down American anthracite coal production to the benefit of the Chinese,   ordered a deliberate coverup of the shooting down of Flight 800,   and initiated the US Policy (Housing loans for poor people who couldn't pay their loans)   and any number of other scandals and abuses of power to numerous to remember and mention?   


Like that?   


No,  I don't think the problem is about President's sticking their heads in nooses,  I think the problem is that we have a system where the Media refuses to cover horrible scandals that affect their political party,   and that they make up fake political scandals to use against the party they hate.   

[Ghost Bear]

I dunno, his remarks lack the added alliterative appeal of "nattering nabobs of negativism", "hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history", or even "pusillanimous pussyfooters", but then the likes of William Safire haven't been around for a while.