Real journalists aren't allowed to interview the President. They're doing real work, resulting in Panama and Pandora papers, for example. Proof of the entire world's international web of wealthy monsters, all ignored for the most part.
this post was submitted on 27 May 2026
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Even if they don't speak out, I do from my device's display on their behalf when I hear him talk like that to/about a reporter asking questions.
I want someone to snap, call him a piece of shit kiddie fucker, then if he gets indignant that 'how dare you', call him a thin-skinned baby who can dish it out but can't take it. Make him so mad, on camera, that he strokes out live on air. I'd personally send that reporter money until the day I die, like how the original owner of Little Caesars paid for Rosa Parks apartment until she passed.
Fuck him! He would never talk to someone like that around me without having me escorted out as I verbally eviscerated him. He's disrespect incarnate, and I was raised not to let someone talk to me, or anyone around me, like that!
Oh I do the same when I'm listening to Secular Talk or The Humanist Report sometimes. And to be clear, it's not just him, but all these disingenuous fucks. I debunked Bezos so many ways the other day.
It's just really disheartening how there's never any pushback when it's so easy.
"40% of federal taxes are paid by the top 1% of earners"
"And Mr. Bezos, how much do you earn and claim on your federal income? From past reporting we have you saying it's $80,000 which would mean that you are not a 1% earner, correct?"
I've wondered the same thing, many times.
A reminder that the McCarthy hearings finally ended when one witness, tired of being harassed, finally hollered back, in front of Congress: "HAVE YOU NO DECENCY, SIR?" and the judgemental Christian values of mid-50s America were suddenly shocked to their core. They suddenly realized that this sort of smarmy behavior is beneath the dignity of America.
I've been waiting for that moment, when someone finally puts him in his place in front of the world, giving him a royal telling off, and a journalist is the perfect person to do it effectively.
They'll probably lose their job, and surely be banned from the White House, but they'll get a better job out of it, and the support of the American people.
John Swinton allegedly said the following in 1883:
There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in country towns. You are all slaves. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion. If you expressed it, you would know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid $150 for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, I would be like Othello before twenty-four hours: my occupation would be gone. The man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street hunting for another job. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an "Independent Press"! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.
I'm not sure how accurate it was in 1883, but it certainly is 100% accurate today. Whoever said it.
There are an army of sycophants getting paid to make sure he doesn't talk to any actual journalists
I would love to see a reporter or interviewer reply to a deflection with "that's not what I asked you, now answer the fucking question."
I imagine this so many times.
Abdul El-Sayed just basically did that on Fox to the anchor.
Never, because Republicans bought all the publications. If you want fair reporting dont allow billionaires to capture all of them. They can't say this. They will be immediately fires and probably black walled throughout the billionaire owned industry.
It's not "Republicans bought all of the publications", it's "billionaires bought all of the publications".
For example, Rupert Murdoch is not a Republican. He just uses them for his own ends.
This is international, it's not American or Republican.
Honestly the "Republican" ideology is kind of a global now too. They need a new name for the global instance.
Edit: actually they need a new name in general because they dont even care for republics anymore, its all centralized power boners.
You've put the cart before the horse.
The "republican" ideology has adopted the global goals of their corporate sponsors... just as the "democrat" ideology has done.
It's a "new world order".
Examples... Democrats were once "pro labor". Now, that's just a joke.
Republicans were once "state's rights". Those days are over.
(yes, I know that bOtH PaRtIeS claim otherwise, but look at the results)
It's really that "Conservatives" have bought out all the papers and news and media and... 😞
Murdoch backed Koch for mayor of NYC and Obama for President, for example.
They will use bOtH pArTiEs to achieve their ends, they're not hiding it and what they support.
Rupert is pro free market and pro Israel, otherwise he could give a shit about US political parties, D or R is fine.
Yes. In the US both parties are very well into the Conservative side of the spectrum.
Even in Canada the current Liberals are right of centre ... We really need real pro labour parties in both countries
This is a nation that has a "presidential anthem" - you know the things that normally only exist in monarchies because the head of state is the state.
I don't even have to dive deeper into the "american civil religion" than this to get my point across.
"L'État, c'est moi."
"haha billionaires and the Epstein class are so dumb! The spend billions to buy newspapers, radio, and TV just to always lose money! Haha so dumb!"
If they did, there is a good chance their entire network would be blacklisted from the White House and it’s staff entirely. I have to believe there are at least a few good journalists in the bunch who are suffering through for the sake of doing journalism.
Just one “get fucked, cunt!" would go a long way.
The "journalists" who get access to him are there specifically because they probably won't do that, under fear of likely going through several years of completely illegal but still life-ruining legal and personal hell for themselves and their families.
Isn't the American justice system dandy?
Slightly tangential, but I posted a link to this video I saw which is just a wild ride of how broken the systems are against the working class.
https://lemmy.zip/post/65067336
Part 2 should be on youtube in the next couple days. I watched it on Patreon and it's even worse, the amount of corruption on display by the police is wild. Redacting their conversations to protect themselves, violating the law after being shown what the law is, etc all to protect a couple dudes and a corporation.
God I'm begging to be in front of this man for 10 minutes
I work with dementia patients all day. It would be trivial to navigate his psyche into saying pretty much whatever
Are real journalists even allowed near him?
On the other hand, reporters of integrity have been difficult to find ever since they started being able to spew their opinions as entertainment reporting, rather than actual news reports.
I was desperate for one of the reps to snap that at Pam Bondi when she wouldn't shut the fuck up with lies and tangents to every question while she was before that house committee. Anyone who got flak for it could've just said they thought they were being appropriate by using presidential language.
Well, this is an easy question to answer. Trump doesn't talk to outlets that ask him hard questions or say things that he doesn't like to his face. If they do, they won't be invited back, and he will have his lawyers sue them for 10 billion dollars.
Journalism is no longer about investigation and bringing truth to power, but about access. Most journalists across the spectrum just repeat state department talking points verbatim. There's some outliers like Chris Hedges and Vincent Bevins, but they're extremely rare, and generally not employed by the big name outlets like AP news and such. In journalism, if you exhibit even a semblance of a backbone, you lose access, and hence your job. So, it'll be "regime" this, "Hamas-run hospital" that, "BuT at WhAt CoSt" and so on.
"Freedom of the press" is a funny little phrase because it doesn't specify who is free to do what with the press... As it turns out, billionaires are free to buy the press, and gatekeep it from anyone who might challenge them.
Just like "freedom of speech" meant only for the speech the administration/free speech absolutists likes.
Exactly. "Words only mean what they mean when we feel like it."
Everybody knows that everybody feels that way. The unspoken words are louder than whatever garbage this abomination spills from its face hole.
Take heart, MC Donald’s has too many calories.
I think there’s a journalism principle that’s something like “don’t be the story”
Yea but they are anyways because he says that shit so its too late to not be the story.
Respectability politics, in a slightly different context. "Policies" that are effectively unwritten threats.
The Spider Jerusalem proviso
Americans have an obsession with decorum. They forgot the adage "speak softly, but carry a big stick."
I'm just waiting for the day that some other leader has his balls drop and says the exact same line back to Trump as he did it to a reporter.
I mean imagine some big public international negotiation, Trump starts mouthing off, as he usually does, saying nothing, and someone with actual authority at that table tells him "Shut up piggy".
It would be interesting if someone set up a Go Fund Me with the recipient being the first journalist to actually do this.
A real easy to show who truly works for who is for the 'Boss' to flex whatever muscle they think they have to the subservient party.
Just post the image with the quote. The Facebook page (or whatever) reposting it is adding nothing.
Also that second image is provably false. Check the comments in the post I'm guessing you got it from for the links.
I'm so tired of leftwing misinformation. We don't need to make shit up when the truth is already awful enough