January 7, 2018: Trump Spends His Day Tweeting and Planning for the Fake News Awards Show

 

1/7/18: Trump spends a quiet Sunday morning at church. No, I’m joking. He’s busy tweeting!!! 

“I’ve had to put up with the Fake News from the first day I announced that I would be running for President,” he grumbles. “Now I have to put up with a Fake Book, written by a totally discredited author. Ronald Reagan had the same problem and handled it well. So, will I!” (See 1/14/18.)

Luckily, we learn his plan to hold his own awards ceremony, like the Golden Globes, only without the actresses in black, protesting sexual harassment, is speeding ahead. Again, he tweets: 

The Fake News Awards, those going to the most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media, will be presented to the losers on Wednesday, January 17, rather than this coming Monday. The interest in, and importance of, these awards is far greater than anyone could have anticipated! 

 

Trump spends an hour on four more posts. One involves correcting his own misuse of the word “consensual” to thank Michael Goodwin for praising him in a New York Post column. By now we know the drill. Any criticism of Trump = “Fake News.” All fawning praise = excellent journalism. For example, Goodwin insists we should look at the stock market boom under Trump. Up thousands of points! Had Clinton been elected, the market would have gone straight into the toilet! 

Just like it did under Obama. Remember how the market began to plunge, starting on October 9, 2007, when President George W. Bush was in office? From a peak that day of 14,164 it skidded to 6,547 by March 9, 2009. 

Somehow, that drop in value, from $22 trillion to $9 trillion, was the Kenyan guy’s fault. It was his all fault even though he had been in office for only 48 days when the market hit bottom. 

By the time Obama left the White House, after ruining the stock market and the job market, we had suffered a measly increase on the Dow to 19,804 and added jobs for a lousy 76 months in a row.

BLOGGER’S NOTE (6/19/22): Sadly, the Fake News Awards ceremony never got off the ground. What a bummer. All we got was a link from the president to see the list of winners he had chosen. At first, even the link didn’t work. 

Other than that, some of the examples of news media blunders are pretty good. Of course, we all blunder. And when Trump howled about the “Russian Collusion” hoax, we now know about a dozen of his aides and his own son and son-in-law met with Russians during the 2016 campaign. Just as the Mainstream Media reported.