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Okay. I will see your fake NPR and raise you fake TRUMP.
These are his proclamations
CHina is a currency manipulator. China is not a manipulator
NATO is obsolete. NATO is no longer obsolete.
I mean really. Who listens to this buffoon
No one; not even Republican lawmakers. They are just hoping he can keep his mouth shut long enough to ram Paul Ryan's tax cuts through.
Secondly - have you EVER seen a bigger VICTIM than this President Snowflake? I mean, EVER?
Let's see . . now NPR is being mean; the MSM is mean to him; Morning Joe and Mika are mean to him; Chuck Schumer is mean to him; CNN is mean to him; the Democrats are mean to him; Megyn Kelly was mean to him . . .
You must not listen to NPR. It's 24-7 anti Trump - pro Obama.
BS. I listen to it every day. NPR is one of the few places I can hear the republican side of an issue without all the partisan crazy immature sniping. They regularly discuss policy and whatnot by bringing on both republican and democratic senators and congressmen to give their perspectives.
There are a few opinion shows but most of the news/politics shows are simply covering the news in a way that paints a full picture.
This country is so partisan it's ridiculous right now. We have zero tolerance to hear any other point of view without screaming bias. We are so screwed as a country until "we the people" grow the hell up.
Just over an hour ago, NPR attacked Trump with blatantly fake news.
NPR started off a segment talking about how Trump is taking too much time working out trade policies. Then they went into talks with South Korea and an audio clip of Trump where he links trade deficit to national debt. The NPR announcer then comes on and in a snarky voice says that perhaps Trump hasn't finalized a trade policy yet, because he doesn't understand that trade deficits and national debt are not the same thing.
#1 Trump clearly didn't say the two were the same thing. He clearly was connecting them as one causing the other to grow.
#2 It is common economic theory of what Trump said - that trade deficits can potentially increase national debts.
Trump said nothing controversial economically speaking and yet NPR is hammering him as if he made a dunce comment by clearly distorting what he said.
I know what some of you are thinking - the guy works for NPR, he is likely an ignoramus. Well the guy does "market place" and discusses economics for NPR so it is unlikely he is a total idiot on economics AND he clearly took what Trump said out of context.
Some of you might also be thinking that some economists argue that trade deficits can have positive impacts too. That is not the point. The point is Trump was clearly connecting the two, which is common economic theory, and NPR made it seem like he couldn't tell the difference between the two.
Finally, some of you may be thinking that other economists argue that the connection between the two is tenuous at best. However, NPR did not argue this. NPR claimed in a snarky voice that Trump said they were the same, which he did not.
When NPR and other left leaning media sources attack Trump with fake news, does it not take away from real and legitimate gripes against him?
It's hard to defend NPR without having the clip (or soundbites) of what they really said.
It's easy to just scream fake news. Some question that I think could be asked: is it possible they made a mistake? Is it possible you made a mistake in interpreting what they were saying? you seem to have narrowed your focus onto a very specific statement and use this as proof of fake news, but how important was that one statement to the whole story? And what was the context of the story? If it was for the purpose of editorial, it's harder to be upset as opinion plays a role in editorial.
Like I said, without the person you're attacking having a voice here, there's essentially nothing to discuss.
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