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I've got your picture
Of me and you
You wrote "I love you" I love you too I sit there staring and there's nothing else to do
Your eyes are spitting hate
Your people all bow down Your generals are so great Your voice has commanding sound I often kiss you when there's no one else around
I've got your picture, I've got your picture
I'd like a million pictures of myself I asked Hannity and Rush to cover me So I can look at my picture on TV You've got me turning up and turning down and turning in and turning 'round
I'm turning Korean I think I'm turning Korean I really think so
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"From spreading bald lies to suppressing basic facts and information, the early days of the Trump administration are suggestive of a tin-pot dictatorship. That's not the look he wants, and neither do most Americans....Every administration is free to set its own agenda. But the Trump administration is not free to say 2 + 2 = 5. This is no longer a reality TV show. Facts and the truth should rule policy debates." - Editorial, Philadelphia Inquirer (January 26, 2017)
ABC News aired a David Muir interview with Donald Trump on January 25, 2017. There were many things said by President Trump that were completely outrageous, but it is clear that he used the airtime to speak past the ABC journalist to his loyal followers (those citizens who he bragged about their loyalty to him during the campaign when he said: "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters."). Trump continued to repeat the "Big Lie" (that he cannot substantiate with any facts) that 3-5 million people voted illegally in the 2016 Presidential election. This is how a dictator speaks. He told his audience that only Fox News provides accurate news reporting and that is what we should all be watching.
"DAVID MUIR: Mr. President, I just have one more question on this. And it's -- it's bigger picture. You took some heat after your visit to the CIA in front of that hallowed wall, 117 stars -- of those lost at the CIA. You talked about other things. But you also talked about crowd size at the inauguration, about the size of your rallies, about covers on Time magazine. And I just wanna ask you when does all of that matter just a little less? When do you let it roll off your back now that you're the president?
(OVERTALK)
PRESIDENT TRUMP: OK, so I'm glad you asked. So, I went to the CIA, my first step. I have great respect for the people in intelligence and CIA. I'm -- I don't have a lot of respect for, in particular one of the leaders. But that's okay. But I have a lot of respect for the people in the CIA.
That speech was a home run. That speech, if you look at Fox, OK, I'll mention you -- we see what Fox said. They said it was one of the great speeches. They showed the people applauding and screaming and -- and they were all CIA. There was -- somebody was asking Sean -- "Well, were they Trump people that were put--" we don't have Trump people. They were CIA people.
That location was given to me. Mike Pence went up before me, paid great homage to the wall. I then went up, paid great homage to the wall. I then spoke to the crowd. I got a standing ovation. In fact, they said it was the biggest standing ovation since Peyton Manning had won the Super Bowl and they said it was equal. I got a standing ovation. It lasted for a long period of time. What you do is take -- take out your tape -- you probably ran it live. I know when I do good speeches. I know when I do bad speeches. That speech was a total home run. They loved it. I could've ...
(OVERTALK)
PRESIDENT TRUMP: ... gotten ...
DAVID MUIR: You would give the same speech if you went back ...
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Absolutely.
DAVID MUIR: ... in front of that wall?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: People loved it. They loved it. They gave me a standing ovation for a long period of time. They never even sat down, most of them, during the speech. There was love in the room. You and other networks covered it very inaccurately. I hate to say this to you and you probably won't put it on but turn on Fox and see how it was covered. And see how people respond to that speech.
That speech was a good speech. And you and a couple of other networks tried to downplay that speech. And it was very, very unfortunate that you did. The people of the CIA loved the speech. If I was going to take a vote in that room, there were, like, 300, 350 people, over 1,000 wanted to be there but they couldn't. They were all CIA people. I would say I would've gotten 350 to nothing in that room. That's what the vote would've been. That speech was a big hit, a big success -- success. And then I came back and I watched you on television and a couple of others.
DAVID MUIR: Not me personally.
(OVERTALK)
PRESIDENT TRUMP: And they tried to demean. Excuse me?
DAVID MUIR: Not me personally.
PRESIDENT TRUMP: Not you personally but your network -- and they tried to demean the speech. And I know when things are good or bad. A poll just came out on my inauguration speech which was extraordinary that people loved it. Loved and liked. And it was an extraordinary poll."
Did Trump just declare Fox News as America's Official State News Channel? I fear that the First Amendment is in for a face-lift under the Trump Administration. Perhaps once he installs his new Supreme Court Justice, we'll see a new Executive Branch-centric interpretation of "Congress shall make no law....abridging the freedom of speech...." by overturning New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and similar decisions like New York Times Co. v. United States (the case regarding the publication by newspapers of the Pentagon Papers) where the conservative Chief Justice William Burger in his dissenting opinion stated:
"In these cases, the imperative of a free and unfettered press comes into collision with another imperative, the effective functioning of a complex modern government and specifically the effective exercise of certain constitutional powers of the Executive. Only those who view the First Amendment as an absolute in all circumstances - a view I respect, but reject - can find such cases as these to be simple or easy....Would it have been unreasonable, since the newspaper could anticipate the Government's objections to release of secret material, to give the Government an opportunity to review the entire collection and determine whether agreement could be reached on publication? Stolen or not, if security was not in fact jeopardized, much of the material could no doubt have been declassified, since it spans a period ending in 1968. With such an approach - one that great newspapers have in the past practiced and stated editorially to be the duty of an honorable press - the newspapers and Government might well have narrowed [403 U.S. 713, 751] the area of disagreement as to what was and was not publishable, leaving the remainder to be resolved in orderly litigation, if necessary."
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