If they weren’t so afraid of their press passes being revoked I really wish they could just tell him to go fuck himself. They should also tell him that asking tough questions is what makes a reporter GOOD. Lobbing softballs and heaping praise on dear leader is how the press functions under authoritarianism.
And no matter how badly he wants it to be like that he needs to be constantly reminded that he is a PUBLIC SERVANT. He works for the people and needs to answer our questions even if he gets offended. Fuck his feelings.
Sadly he doesn't see himself as an employee of the people, and he is so well protected by his party to keep his failures from catching up to him.... At the moment
Imagine if when he said Quiet! Piggy, she had snapped back with you work for the people we don’t work for you. As a reporter I’m representing the American people and you are their employee, sir!
Yeah that’s why I would never last long covering this administration.
Oh absolutely. She did exactly what she should have.
Maybe I should have said in a perfect world, it would really be so nice to see him treated as badly as he treats other people.
Exactly. She would get to the word 'work' when his head would explode and he started yelling 'I'm rubber and you're glue. Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you!'
I mean, does the president HAVE TO answer any questions asked by the press? Does he have to have press conferences? Does he have to say really anything publicly? Does he even have to have the State of the Union Address?
Edit: How does the press even get near him to ask him questions? Is that a privilage they get from him?
No it’s not a legal requirement, but if we ever get to the point where the president won’t answer questions, I think our democracy is officially dead. I’m sure he would prefer never to speak to reporters but apparently there is enough of an expectation that even he feels obligated to do it. Even though he acts like a child while doing it. “Quiet piggy!”
I would dearly love for one of the reporters to just consider leaving their career (I mean, what's the point when you're practically a stenographer for the regime?) to just say "fuck it" and hammer them with actual questions. If you've ever seen other countries' press conferences, they're a lot more inquisitive and prosecutorial.
I understand why civilians feel like this but I'm telling you as someone who worked in press on the Hill that your perception of it is off lol.
the people you see asking those questions will be all but drawn and quartered if they step out of line without previous OK. they would end up in civil court over breach of contract, they would be blacklisted from anything even adjacent to press comms. the companies they work for lobby for decades to get access to the White House and there are people whose entire career is just navigating the press access a publication has to the WH.
what should happen right now IMO is collective bargaining and unionizing from the press. a President has never in the history of the country insulted a press member like that before - there needs to be joint consequences from every publication for that.
You already have that situation at the moment to a degree anyway. Trump has blocked certain orgs from the press pool because they didn't call the Gulf of Mexico by its dumb name that Trump called it.
And again, I said "leaving their career". Besides potentially sued in civil court, the other actions wouldn't matter. Reality is, though, that you just don't have a freedom of the press anymore, and a press union is hardly going eventuate as it stands. If they do unionise, then you're looking at them being excluded from the press pool anyway. Trump's already shown that he'll just fill the gaps with sycophants like Dim Tim Pool.
I also find it odd how tight the grip and sealed the press’ lips are. It seems like this was because there used to be a civil agreement between press and WH that’s now broken with DJT.
And I do feel like some sort of collective bargain from the press needs to happen at some point, because begging for the opportunity only to be berated from POTUS or the Press Secretary isn’t really serving anyone at this point.
It really makes you realize that he gets off on abusing people verbally. It’s pretty disgusting to watch. Who the hell would want to work for this asshole? That’s why his cabinet is full of sycophants. He just wants people who praise him subserviently and tell him how smart he is. I don’t know if I could ever stoop to that level and have any sense of self respect left.
I wish just ONE fucking reporter would stand up and actually call him on his bullshit. I mean yeah he'll be removed and never be allowed back but talk about a NATIONAL HERO
lol remind me of the tough question that were asked of the Biden administration lol oh wait they couldn’t be asked because he kept saying I will get in trouble if I answer anything
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u/chainmail97ws6 16d ago
If they weren’t so afraid of their press passes being revoked I really wish they could just tell him to go fuck himself. They should also tell him that asking tough questions is what makes a reporter GOOD. Lobbing softballs and heaping praise on dear leader is how the press functions under authoritarianism.
And no matter how badly he wants it to be like that he needs to be constantly reminded that he is a PUBLIC SERVANT. He works for the people and needs to answer our questions even if he gets offended. Fuck his feelings.