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Trump admits he didn’t have to tear down East Wing for ballroom, but just wanted to
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He wanted to make distracting headlines, and he got them.
"Distracting headlines" as a canard gets a bit old. Everything is a distraction from everything else, because we have a heavily monopolized mass media and a shrinking pool of investigative journalists with any kind of budget.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_newspapers#United_States
When you had twice as many newspapers and half as many people, the idea of "distracting headlines" was more a matter of consumer choice (you could read serious news at the New York Times or junk pop-media at the New York Post). Now media functions as a cartel, with papers all echoing one another on topics of the day. Or deliberately remaining silent on embarrassments the business community owners would rather not talk about.
This isn't a "Trump" problem, though. Its a problem of consolidation and privatization on a national scale.
This. Media consolidation has been going on for the last 40 years, with the numbers of owners going from around 40 in the 1980s to only 5 today. And if those 5 billionaires get together and decide something isn't going to be talked about, then it's NOT getting talked about.
This is also why the so-called "mainstream news media" is all lies, sanewashing and WrestleMania rage bait. It's why the news loves to say, "things suck" but NONE of them want to talk about WHY things suck. This is by design. It's a distraction so the owners can keep the lower classes fighting with each other while they, the rich, run off with all the farking money.