The Media Is Furious That Trump Ditched Them to Go Eat a Steak Last Night
16th November 2016
Oh, I am SO going to enjoy this Presidency.
Reporters were furious that Trump had “violated protocol.”
Who does he think he is? Doesn’t he know who they are?
“With his Tuesday night actions, the Trump Administration is shaping up to be the least accessible to the public and the press in modern history,” Alexandra Jaffe and Ali Vitali at NBC News said.
Note the equation of ‘the press’ and ‘the public’, as if they had any necessary connection. I have no doubt that Trump will be accessible to the public; the press, not so much.
“Once you are president, once you are president-elect, it is a matter of tradition, it is a matter of security, it is a matter of national interest that you don’t go dark — you’re not really allowed to be a private person anymore,” Maddow said.
I’m sure you think so, sweetheart. (I rather suspect that this is the first time in her life that Rachel Maddow has had anything good to say about tradition.)
“One week after the election, it is unacceptable for the next president of the United States to travel without a regular pool to record his movements and inform the public about his whereabouts,” the WHCA said in a statement.
Yeah, that really improves ‘security’. I’m trying to see how they have any say in what is ‘acceptable’ or ‘not acceptable’. What are they going to do? Refuse to cover him? They can accept it, or they can go pound sand — their choice.
It’s not as if he didn’t warn them.