Media reporter for The Hill Joe Concha reacts to criticism of Trump's executive orders on COVID-19 relief and a report claiming the White House asked for his face to be added to Mount Rushmore.
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Steve well, a the Washington
Steve. Well, a the Washington
Post reporter is under fire for
tweeting, about executive orders
under President Trump and
President Obama,
Colby Itcowicz tweeted lets
pond dered the Motsd most played
out question of the last four
years. Could you imagine if Obama
it broke up a stalemate by
signing an executive order and
saying it was so
after the president signed an
executive order on Friday?
How funny is this?
This is hilarious,
media reporter for the hill, Joe
Concha
Joe. I remember when Barack
Obama was president and he was
talking about how he couldnt
get Congress to help him. He
said: look I got a pen and I
got a phone and thats how we wound up with
and thats how we wound. Up with
the dreamers President Obama
signed two hundred and seventy six executive orders.
President Bush George W Bush
signed two hundred and ninety one
Donald Trump has signed one hundred and eighty.
These are things. Presidents do
particularly in a time when
things are polarized and
Congress isnt doing at least
what the president deems is the
right thing at that time.
So to have a reporter at one of
the top newspapers in the world
either have I dont know
willingly deceitful type of
tweet that she put out there or
he
or have patent poor memory loss
like this. Only something brought
on by Tds, which is Trump
Derangementderangesyndrome if Yo
Psychiatrist,
Steve. Indeed
another media outlet, the New
York Times, had this big
exclusive that apparently Donald
Trump who this that event out in
South Dakota under Mount
Rushmore. He actually wanted to
figure out whether or not they
could put his face up on the
mountain
Heres, the quote from the
times and last year a White
House aide reached out to the
governors office with a
question. According to a
republican official familiar
with the conversation whats
the process to add additional
presidents to Mount Rushmore,
the president then tweeted Joe
never suggested it. Although
based on the many things
accomplished during the first
three and a half years, perhaps
more than any other presidency
sounds like a good idea to me,
you got to wonder where that
story came from via at New York
Times.
I mean, where does that stuff
happen
right?
Well, its through anonymous
sources, right
and thats, something the
anonymous source neems to know
everything
love to meet this guy or gal
feed negative things about the
president to the press?
The president also, he may have
said
this right
and it may have been joking.
He does have the sense of humor.
He does love to troll the press.
We have seen that people put out
on twitter shows him being
president, not just in two thousand and twenty two thousand and twenty four
or two thousand and fifty two.
He has actually tweeted this
out
its all trolling, no
way a first term president would
ever suggest he should be put on
Mount Rushmore in any serious
capacity.
Couple polls that came out that
relate to both these stories
came out from Gallup and the
Knight Foundation nonpartisan.
Fifty four percent of Americans, okay
majority, believe that reporters
misrepresent the facts,
Gallup also finds in the same
poll. Eighty four percent of Americans say media
is to blame for the: U Dot S
political divide, eighty six percent believe
there is bias in the media.
So when you hear about oh,
there is no bias against this
president,
its just reporters pursuing
facts. These polls are
disturbing to have those sort of
numbers that high
er with at one point. Let me
just read this to you real
quick.
Most Americans have lost
confidence in the media to
deliver news
chief program officer.
This is corrosive for our
democracy. He is, he says,
thats all you have to say about
this.
This is dangerous times in terms
of people, just not knowing where
to get the truth anymore, Steve
Steve, and that is so accurate
on its nose right there, Joe,
because when I went to
journalism school reporters just
gave facts things that they
knew for sure,
but today its hard to tell
which in Somebodys report,
which part is the fact and which
part is the reporters opinion and thats the thing
and thats. The thing
opinion is the civil that gets s
you viral.
That brings attention to them.
That used to be the cardinal
rule. Dont make yourself the
story.
They love to be the story
its not about Emmys its can I
get on Jimmy Kimmel,
never see them more happy about
themselves than going on shows
like that.
The opinion aspect has taken
over this business over facts
got to go,
got yen yoga today at the local
park.
This is something that really
should do wonders not just for my physical specimen, but also
my physical specimen, but also
for my mental you Aqueue at Acui
Steve as your local park. They
are still picking up chainsaws.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-10.