The Attention Craving POTUS...

We all know by now, or should know anyway, that DJT is a reality show POTUS. He is one who craves the attention that the media falls all over itself to give him. Trump is addicted to the limelight cable news, print media, and electronic media provide him 24/7. Bluntly stated Trump is a media whore who needs the media every bit as much, if not more, than the media needs him.

From The Washington Post :

In President Trump’s interview with the New York Times, he declared:

Another reason that I’m going to win another four years is because newspapers, television, all forms of media will tank if I’m not there. Because without me, their ratings are going down the tubes. Without me, the New York Times will indeed be not the failing New York Times, but the failed New York Times. So they basically have to let me win. And eventually, probably six months before the election, they’ll be loving me because they’re saying, “Please, please, don’t lose Donald Trump.”

On one level, the comment is ludicrous. Despite the frenzied paranoia of the Fox News crowd, the Times doesn’t determine election winners. If it did, he wouldn’t be president. Indeed, if the Trumpists thought the Times had such power, it wouldn’t be the “Failing New York Times,” but rather the “All-Powerful New York Times.”

The comment is also revealing of Trump’s obsession with the media. While decrying the “fake news,” he’s intoxicated, addicted even, to the attention. No president has been obsessed with TV as Trump is. (He reportedly watches up to eight hours a day.) He runs to the Times to unburden himself on a regular basis, just as he seeks refuge in the comfy environs of Fox News prime-time shows. He seemingly makes pronouncements and decisions based on news coverage, not on his own administration data. While he imagines the news media “needs” him, it is Trump who craves approving coverage and rages at their criticism.

All that said, at some level he must know that without CNN’s nonstop coverage of his rallies and Fox News’s incessant cheerleading, he never could have dominated the news cycle, deprived nearly 20 GOP opponents of coverage and won the GOP nomination on a shoestring budget. If he thinks the media can deliver for him again, it is in part because he got such a tremendous boost from the media in 2016. And to the extent that he is allowed a forum in which to babble on without fear of interruption, follow-up questions or contradiction, he’s figured out that no other politician would be allowed to get through an interview like the one he gave on Thursday without a scrape.

But alas, his notion that the media will be “nice to him” — a childlike prism by which he judges and personalizes all interactions (They love me! Great guys!) — bears no relationship to reality.

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  1. Les CarpenterSun Dec 31, 06:39:00 PM EST

    We're surprised the flying monkeys from WYD weblog haven't swooped in to defend their BLOTUS and justify his narcissistic egocentric personality.

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  2. Jerry CritterSun Dec 31, 07:43:00 PM EST

    No! No! Too (or is it to) many letters in those words. Big words bad! Bigs words fake. Sad! SAD! 🤯🤯🤯

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  3. WDSun Dec 31, 09:16:00 PM EST

    The mystery for me is why the American public could have put Trump in the White House. Trump has been front page gossip/news for 30 years. His scumbag character has been easy to see for all. Maybe it's part of the worship Americans have for rich people, or because Americans have such short memories. New Yorker's have been warning us about this bigot all along. Even before the primaries Trump had years of saying Obama was not American born, in the face of certain proof. Then he claims a female reporter must have been bleeding from a certain orifice because he didn't like he question. On a nationally televised debate. AND ALL THE OTHER VILE GARBAGE!!

    To much damage will be done if Americans just wait til Trump crash and burns. There needs to be a proactive movement (beside Muller's investigation) to remove Trump from office.

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    1. Les CarpenterSun Dec 31, 09:32:00 PM EST

      Just what are you proposing? Investigation could lead to impeachment, the proper course for our republic and the right thing to do. As well as voting out of office those who represent the worst in America.

      Scratch my inquiry, I do not wish to know.

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    2. WDSun Dec 31, 10:26:00 PM EST

      I'm not sinister like Dervish who wrote a post calling for the assassination of Trump.

      I'm proposing marches in the streets nationwide, for Trump to resign. I'm calling for 24/7 protests around the White House. I'm calling for the public to demand more investigations about Trump's activities other than just Muller's investigation. I'm calling for public humiliation and intimidation of the president, just as Nixon got and LBJ for that matter. He needs to be forced out of office by the people, the same people who voted him in office. We can't count on the Republicans to get rid of him.

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    3. Les CarpenterSun Dec 31, 10:34:00 PM EST

      Humilliation is fine, intimidation is not.

      Delete
    4. WDSun Dec 31, 11:10:00 PM EST

      After what he's done? He's intimidated everyone he comes into contact with. His whole act is intimidation. We will disagree on this.

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    5. Les CarpenterSun Dec 31, 11:16:00 PM EST

      So, 2 wrongs a right does make?

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    6. The Prophet Dervish Z SandersMon Jan 01, 06:57:00 AM EST

      "WD" is what the other commenters on Willis Hart's blog called me. The commenter using "WD" knows this. He lies about me "calling for the assassination of Trump". I STRONGLY suspect this commenter is Luke. He can sound reasonable when not accusing Liberal bloggers of "hate" and lying (have delusions concerning) people stealing material from his blog and posting it under their own names (or by using sock puppets). BTW, the above comes across to me as disingenuous, given the fact that Luke wrote on his blog "I'm rooting for Trump".

      Delete
    7. dmarksMon Jan 01, 01:43:00 PM EST

      Not surprised this WD troll impersonates his betters, such as you, Dervish Sanders.

      Delete
  4. Les CarpenterSun Dec 31, 11:18:00 PM EST

    That would likely be Trump's position.

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  5. WDSun Dec 31, 11:53:00 PM EST

    This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

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    1. Les CarpenterMon Jan 01, 12:43:00 AM EST

      You will not be allowed to derail this thread or ANY any other. Dervish is NOT the post subject.

      Stick with relevant remarks or your booted. Capiche?

      Delete
    2. The Prophet Dervish Z SandersMon Jan 01, 06:58:00 AM EST

      Luke (commenting above as "WD") and Trump are both delusional.

      Delete
    3. Les CarpenterMon Jan 01, 08:08:00 AM EST

      Escapees from WYD stench trench perhaps?

      Delete
    4. dmarksMon Jan 01, 01:44:00 PM EST

      Les, you can take the WYD out of the stench trench, but you can't take the stench out of the WYD.

      Delete
    5. Les CarpenterWed Jan 03, 07:16:00 PM EST

      WYD seem to enjoy a employing a number of fly monkeys carrying stench bombs.

      Delete
  6. WDMon Jan 01, 10:39:00 AM EST

    This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.

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