Re: West Wing Reads 7/5/17:
"Tammy Bruce, in the Washington Times, praises President Trump’s wrestling match tweet, arguing “that the tweet was brilliant” in that it anticipated 'a ridiculously overwrought reaction by the legacy media, and boy, did they deliver.' "
The American public never underestimates the indecency of this president, as was also proven by that tweet.
Bruce's article brings into sharp focus the absurdity of the crass things the president will do. The point of the article wasn't the president's brilliance, or even his intelligence in tweeting it--it was that the gif was made to incite and it succeeded. Citing this article proves how ludicrous the president's choices are, how he will always choose to incite rather than unite, he will always go for the low blow. And boy, did he deliver. He moved on it "like a bitch", as we'd heard him do before.
West Wing Reads is a pretty sad expansion of an already diminutive form of access to information. Despite being a WA Times article, this article in particular is from a Fox News contributor, reinforcing the information bubble. The pieces chosen for 1600 Daily, while obviously propaganda as expected from administration communication, are all opinion pieces. Opinions are fine, but that's all they are. If you negate the pro and con opinions, Bruce and her contemporaries, the facts are what remain: the climate is in danger, every excursion to a Trump business puts money is his personal pocket, he lies regularly and about silly things as well as big issues, he prioritizes childish behavior above anything else. Bruce says that we can all choose to ignore it; so could he. Except he can't. He's incapable.
The attempt to provide what looks like more expanded content of the president's readership actually serves to point out that there is no substance to the effort. A repeating refrain of this administration.
And it's not fooling anyone.
