APPARENTLY DONALD TRUMP HAD MEMBERS OF THE PRESS OVER AT MAR
A LAGO, HIS ESTATE IN PALM BEACH, AND THEY WERE QUITE
CHUMMY.
THIS MIGHT COME AS NEWS TO A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO THINK THE
PRESS AND METAL TRUMP HAVE A VERY HOSTILE RELATIONSHIP --
PART OF THAT IS BECAUSE DONALD TRUMP GOES AROUND ESPECIALLY AT
HIS RALLIES POINTING TO THE PRESS AND SAYING THEY ARE LIARS
AND MISREPRESENTING US, THEY ARE THE ENEMY, THEY ARE ALL THESE
DIFFERENT THINGS, SOMETIMES HE WILL PULL OUT A SINGLE
INDIVIDUAL IN THE PRESS AND BLAME THEM.
WATER BOTTLES HAVE
BEEN THROWN AT THE PRESS, TERRIBLE CHANTS HAVE BEEN
CHANTED AT THEM, ETC.
IT TURNS OUT WHEN THERE ARE NO CAMERAS
THEY GET ALONG HANDSOMELY.
WE NOW HAVE A COUPLE OF PICTURES OF
THAT GATHERING -- IF YOU'VE NEVER SEEN THE INSIDE OF MAR A
LAGO, AND I HAVE NOT, I HAVE TO BE HONEST, NOT A LOT OF INVITES
FROM TRUMP TO VISIT HIS ESTATE, IT SHOWS YOU HOW INCREDIBLY
TACKY HE IS AMONG OTHER THINGS.
APPARENTLY HE THINKS HE'S LOUIS
XVI.
APPARENTLY HE IS A FRENCH RULER OF SOME SORT, WITH THAT
DECOR.
ANYWAY, YOU KNOW HOW POMPOUS HE IS.
THAT IS HIM
ADDRESSING THE REPORTERS, APPARENTLY MIKE ALLEN WAS
ALLOWED TO TAKE THESE PICTURES, EVERYTHING IS OFF THE RECORD.
THERE IS ONE MORE PICTURE OF THEM ALL TOGETHER -- EVERYONE IS
SMILING, HAVING A GOOD TIME, TRUMP IS GIVING A THUMBS UP,
HERE ARE THE MEMBERS OF THE PRESS THAT ARE CHUMMY WITH ME
EVEN THOUGH I'VE BEEN SAYING I'M AGAINST THEM, HERE WE ARE HAVING
A GRAND TIME INSIDE VERSAILLES OR WHATEVER THAT IS.
SOME OF THE
LIST OF REPORTERS WHO MET WITH TRUMP --
>>CNN, HUH, I'M SURE THEY WILL HOLD HIS FEET TO THE FIRE --
>>BRIAN KILMEADE LOOKED A LITTLE SURPRISED IN THAT
PICTURE, BUT HE ALWAYS LOOKS A LITTLE SURPRISED --
>>I THOUGHT MSNBC WAS DEFINITELY HOSTILE, ACCORDING TO TRUMP, OH
RIGHT HE HAS A CONTRACT WITH NBC --
>>A LOT OF OUTRAGED TWEETS --
>>WHEN I SAW THE HEADLINE THAT IT WAS TERRIBLY EMBARRASSING, I
WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT FOR WHOM?
YES, EMBARRASSING FOR THE
REPORTERS WHO ARE SUPPOSED TO HOLD HIM ACCOUNTABLE BUT ARE
THERE TRYING TO GET ACCESS, BUT I WOULD ARGUE MORE NURSING FOR
DONALD TRUMP.
SO ARE YOU FOR REAL OR ARE YOU AN ACTOR?
ARE
YOU JUST PLAYING POLITICS LIKE A REALITY SHOW?
AND ALL THAT
CONFLICT IS JUST FOR RATINGS AND ENTERTAINMENT VALUE IN VOTES?
IN
REALITY THERE IS NO CONFLICT AT ALL, YOU ARE INVITING THEM TO
YOUR ESTATE AND HAVING A GRAND OLD TIME, BIG THUMBS UP.
IF YOU
ARE A PERSON WHO WANTS THE PRESS TO HOLD TRUMP ACCOUNTABLE YOU
SHOULD BE MAD, AND BY THE WAY THERE ARE CRITICS WHO SAY OBAMA
HAD OFF THE RECORD MEETINGS WITH JOURNALISTS -- TRUE ENOUGH --
JOHN PODESTA INVITED OVER A BUNCH OF REPORTERS FOR DINNER,
AND THAT WAS OFF THE RECORD, THE CHIEF STRATEGIST FOR HILLARY HAD
THEM OVER FOR HORS D'OEUVRES, I DO DECLARE, AND COCKTAILS.
THE
LITERAL COCKTAIL CIRCUIT WE TALK ABOUT.
THEY SAY YOU WEREN'T
UPSET ABOUT THAT -- WRONG AGAIN, I WAS UPSET ABOUT THAT.
THEY SAY
I NEED ACCESS -- NO YOU DON'T, IN ORDER TO GET THAT INFORMATION
FROM THE HILLARY OR TRUMP TEAMS OR THE GOVERNMENT, IF YOU DON'T
CHALLENGE THEM, YOUR INFORMATION IS USELESS.
YOU ARE A
STENOGRAPHER.
THEY WILL TELL YOU NO, WE DO CHALLENGE THEM.
I'M
WAITING FOR THAT, I HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET.
I WOULD SAY MORE SO FOR
HILLARY CLINTON THAN DONALD TRUMP.
TRUMP FROM TIME TO TIME
WHEN HE SAYS OUTRAGEOUS THINGS THAT ARE NOWHERE NEAR TRUE, THE
PRESS WILL SAY THERE ARE NO EVIDENCE OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
WHO ILLEGALLY VOTED FOR HILLARY.
HILLARY CLINTON, THEY CHALLENGE
HER ON THE EMAILS, BUT DID THEY EVER CHALLENGE HER PREMISES?
THEY DON'T, BECAUSE THEY AGREE WITH THEM.
THE ESTABLISHMENT IS
ALWAYS RIGHT, THE STATUS QUO IS WONDERFUL, DON'T CHANGE A DAMN
THING.
A COUPLE MORE TWEETS, MICHAEL CALDERONE OF HUFFINGTON
POST TWEETS --
>>HIS POINT BEING HEY, IF HE'S GOING TO ATTACK YOU LIKE THAT IN
THE PRESS THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULDN'T GO OVER AND KISS HIS
RING.
THAT IS A FAIR POINT.
AND OTHERS HAVE MADE THE POINT,
INCLUDING CONSERVATIVE COMMENTATORS, ALEX GRISWOLD MADE
A POINT AT MEDIAITE -- TRUMP CHALLENGES THE RIGHTS OF MANY
PEOPLE, INCLUDING MINORITIES.
HE ARGUES THAT CONSERVATIVE GUN
OWNERS OFTEN HAVE THEIR RIGHTS QUESTIONED, WHETHER IT IS BY
TRUMP OR OTHERWISE, THAT IS THE CONSERVATIVE POINT OF VIEW,
MUSLIM AMERICANS HAVE THEIR RIGHTS CHALLENGED, THE PRESS IS
AT BEST NEUTRAL TO THAT.
WHEN THEIR RIGHTS ARE CHALLENGED, THE
PRESS IS LIKE OH MY GOD, NO, THAT IS AN OUTRAGE, IT'S ABOUT
ME.
BUT EVEN SO HERE THEY BEND A KNEE, BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT
WATCHDOGS.
THEY ARE LAPDOGS, WHAT THEY DO IS SUCK UP TO POWER
AND CALL IT ACCESS.
GAINING IMPORTANT ACCESS TO SOURCES.
I
REMEMBER ONE TIME A POLITICIAN'S STAFF THREATENED US SAYING HE
WON'T COME ON THE YOUNG TURKS ANYMORE.
GREAT, MISSION
ACCOMPLISHED.
WHAT DO I NEED ACCESS TO THEM TO GIVE ME THE
STANDARD NEWS THEY WANT LEAKED, THAT IS FROM THEIR AGENDA, AND
NOT NECESSARILY TRUE AT ALL?
WHY IS THAT INTERESTING TO ME?
OOH,
I'VE LOST ACCESS TO GREASY POLITICIANS, HOW WILL I SURVIVE?
ONE MORE, IF YOU NOTICE IN THE PICTURE, IT IS ONE PICTURE TAKEN
QUICKLY, NOT PHOTOSHOPPED OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, SOME OF THEM
HAVE RED EYES --
>>FAIR ENOUGH, AND LIKE I SAID, I'M CRITICIZING THE PRESS FOR
DOING THIS.
IF DONALD TRUMP INVITES US TO SCHMOOZE US AT HIS
ESTATE, AN UNLIKELY SCENARIO, I GRANT YOU, WE WILL NOT BE
ACCEPTING.
AND THE REASON IT IS UNLIKELY IS BECAUSE HE KNOWS WE
WON'T KOWTOW TO HIM.
AND HE KNOWS THAT THOSE REPORTERS HAVE
SOME GOOD CHANCE THAT THEY WILL KOWTOW TO HIM.
BUT TO ME, THE
PRESS IS A LITTLE BIT LESS CULPABLE THAN DONALD TRUMP IN
THIS CASE.
THE PERSON WHO SHOULD BE MOST PISSED IS THE TRUMP
VOTER WHO ACTUALLY THOUGHT HE MEANT ANY OF THAT STUFF.
FOR
HIM, IT'S ALL A STAGE AND HE'S AN ACTOR, ALL HE'S DOING IS
PLAYING YOU.
IT WAS FAIRLY EASY TO PLAY YOU.
HE'S NOT GOING TO
LOCK UP HILLARY CLINTON, HE'S NOT GOING TO BE AGAINST THE
BANKERS, HE JUST FILLED HIS CABINET CHOCK FULL OF BANKERS.
LATER YOU WILL FIND OUT HE'S NOT AGAINST THE TRADE AGREEMENTS.
HE'S NOT AGAINST THE PRESS.
WHEN THERE ARE NO CAMERAS ROLLING,
THUMBS UP, HE LOVES THE PRESS.
THAT'S THE LIE I CAN'T STAND.