Showing posts with label American press. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American press. Show all posts

Saturday, June 2, 2018

Lack of Apology to President Trump

President Trump was distressed by the phone call to apologize that ABC made to Valerie Jarrett who was racially profiled by Roseanne Barr.  He wondered why he received no apology from ABC when negative things were said about him.

Can he not make the distinction?  Actually, he is smart enough to do so, but he is so egocentric he would not admit he could do so.  If the news media make factual negative statements about the President, whoever the president is, they are doing their job. If the media is supporting a staff member (star or not) who makes opinionated, biased statements not supported by facts or reality, the media needs to take responsibility for supporting bias and prejudice and decry that support. 

Sorry Mr. Trump you lose this time around. 

Monday, February 6, 2017

The Presidential Honeymoon Period

Usually the President of the United States is offered a honeymoon period https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-honeymoon-period-presidents-395739.  But I have not heard anything said about a honeymoon period for President Trump.  Currently the approval rating is for President Trump is very low https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/02/06/its-not-unusual-that-trumps-approval-ratings-sagged-its-unusual-that-theyre-this-low/?utm_term=.535ee5032440.  The one thing about this article is that it says the Trump hates polls. That is not exactly true: when he comes out ahead in a poll, he likes the poll.

But what does it say about President Trump and his relationship with the American press and American people that he does not have a honeymoon period.