"We are Trumps, we don’t play the victim card"
Though had anyone else written this book, it would be called playing the victim card. Especially this chapter.
"The press didn't give him any fair coverage, and if they did, it was because they wanted him to win because Hillary would beat him (she did - as Donald Trump said “He lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country!”), the reporting was one-sided, biased, they were lying, they are self-important, they don't care about Americans (because only Trump supporters are Americans), they tried to stop my father, and every video of him saying stupid things is edited, and it's so unfair! But I'm not complaining! I KNEW there was no sense of fair play and dignity!"
"BACK DURING the previous administration, when former president Obama took a trip to England for a state visit, he was met with a relatively small but vocal protest that flew a diapered baby Obama balloon over the streets of London… Yeah, right. Like that would have happened in a million years. If it had, the liberal Twittersphere would have blown up. Sparks would have flown from keyboards in newsrooms around the country as writers pounded out outraged headlines. Liberal pundits’ heads would have exploded on television screens."
Frankly, I doubt that.
"I didn’t expect the press in England to be any fairer than the media here—my father’s poll numbers in England aren’t so hot. But guess what? Neither were George Washington’s. You know why? Because he fought for America."
Hitler's poll numbers in England weren't so hot either.
"The only way that you can make any impact with Donald Trump is to mock him, because you can't engage him in any kind of argument — it never gets anywhere."
- Max Wakefield
"What I do care about, however, is the hypocrisy that is pervasive in the mainstream media. When a balloon depicting London’s liberal mayor, Sadiq Khan, in a bikini flew over London, the United Kingdom’s Metro newspaper ran a headline warning that “Flying the Sadiq Khan balloon is not an exercise of free speech—it is a party for bigots.”
1) it was an opinion piece in the Metro. Not "running a headline". Plenty of opinion pieces about baby trump balloon. People have even attacked them.
2) Trump hates his balloon, Sadiq Khan laughs at his.
3) Trump balloon was a comment on his "spoiled toddler" like attitude. Sadiq Khan's was a comment on his effort to ban objectifying ads in the London public transportation.
"You want to know a real joke? How about Barack Obama’s nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize just eleven days after he took office. Eleven days! What in God’s name could he have done in eleven days to warrant one of the most prestigious awards in the world?"
It's not like he didn't exist before he became a president. I would say he got it because of the Presidential campaign, for bringing back hope. It still works.
Here's why he got it: The Nobel Peace Prize for 2009. They decided to give it to him, because they think his politics are perfect to promote the kind of world the Norwegian Nobel Committee sees as desirable, and they are rather disappointed - not because of that president Obama didn't do much anything for the world peace (that's not why he got the Peace Prize for either, and if you look at the previous prizes, it's not "world peace" they are after.), but because of the world's reaction to that Obama received the prize.
Not even Obama got why he got it.
It wasn't a payment for future service.
"He’d been toying with the notion of running for president for a while. The first time the idea came up, at least in a public sense, was when Oprah asked him in an interview back in 1988 if he was going to run. Google that interview, and you’ll be surprised. In all this time, over thirty years, my father’s views on trade, America’s standing in the world, and other countries paying their fair share haven’t changed one bit. You could take that spot on Oprah and play it at a MAGA rally, and the crowd would go wild."
Probably. MAGA people tend to get hysterical about things.
I would like to point out one thing there... "If you ever go to Japan right now and try to sell something, forget about it, Oprah, just forget about it. It’s almost impossible. They don't have laws against it, they just make it impossible."
Why not make it impossible for American businesses to take the jobs overseas, why not tax them for overseas production, why not make it "impossible" for foreigners to sell anything in the USA - the same way Japan did. It's not the tariffs, or making import impossible, if the Americans won't buy foreign things, they can't get anything sold. And you don't need to be nasty about it.
A Democrat initiative
Do you know the origin of every item and food in your home? Is most of it American? American made, by Americans, of American materials? Or are the avocados imported from Mexico, because it's cheaper, and metal and wood from China, and clothes are made in India or somewhere, of Indian cotton.
I have to wonder how much Melania really loves USA, when she doesn't wear US made clothes. It's some European fashion house creation after another. And the fact that a lot of Democrat fashion designers refused to dress her - who cares? There's plenty of good American designers who would. Ralph Lauren (who designed the iconic powder blue dress), Oscar de la Renta, Michael Kors (also a Democrat, btw), Vera Wang... great designers. It's not about politics, it's that the First Lady should wear American. She could have chosen her own "Oleg Cassini". If she doesn't bother, why would anyone?
And, in deed, a lot of MAGA stuff is made in China, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras... Now THAT is hypocritical, and not only that, it's stupid. YOU are sending American jobs and money to away.
"that day marks the beginning of something other than the campaign. In a sense, it was the beginning of the end of any credibility the liberal media still possessed."
The media still possesses the credibility among the people who has never just bought what they are being sold, the people who know to question everything, who can double check and verify information, and who don't trust only limited sources.
The people who have lost trust in the media, have lost trust in every media, as evidenced by the backlash Fox News received when they dared to publish the hateful truth of that Joe Biden won the election 2020. Those people will only believe what they want to believe.
"Because remember: These days, all that really matters is feelings. Facts, evidence, and logic have gone out the window."
- Donald Trump jr.
"Maybe the worst of it was how they treated my sister"
OK, let's talk about Ivanka.
"Before my father ran for president, Ivanka was the darling of those glossy magazines such as Vogue , Harper’s Bazaar , and Vanity Fair . Even the New York Times ran complimentary pieces about her."
Hmm... was she?
Spin magazine's interview from 1998 with the 16 years old Ivanka
"We quite rightly resent those who get breaks based on connections rather than merit"
She's a beautiful socialite and a business executive, of course magazines ran complimentary pieces about her. They run complimentary pieces about everyone. (Though I couldn't find a Vogue cover with her on it. I used the one with her mom in stead.)
But then she decided to become a politician. And now you are whining when the press treats her like politicians are being treated.
"And yet, one reporter for Cosmopolitan was so rude, Ivanka got up and left in the middle of the interview."
It couldn't be this, now, could it? Because there was nothing rude about that. Questions like that are asked of politicians all the time, so if Ivanka thinks being treated as a politician is "rudeness" and "bad treatment", why is she in the politics?
Ivanka Trump cuts off Cosmo interview after tough questioning
Ivanka Trump obsessed with status, says former friend in tell-all essay
Enough about Hunter Biden. What about Ivanka Trump?
"Though Ivanka might have been the first target, the press wasted no time going after all of us. Right after the convention, GQ ran an article titled “Donald Trump’s Family Is Just as Bad as Donald Trump.” Why take shots at us one at a time when you can lump us all together? But it also showed us how much the left feared us as a collective fighting force for our father."
Donald Trump’s Family Is Just as Bad as Donald Trump.
"By now, you know that aspiring First Lady Melania Trump cribbed part of her big speech last night from current FLOTUS Michelle Obama, despite the fact that she told Matt Lauer in a pre-taped interview that she wrote the thing herself. And the funniest part of all this is that, as with virtually every Trump-related fuck-up, it won’t ultimately matter at all. In fact, I bet they plagiarized Obama’s speech DELIBERATELY, just so Melania could be caught, and then criticized, and then the Trump camp could piss and moan about the press being so mean to her. There is no gaffe that Trump cannot turn into a permanent and contagious media grudge."
LOL I think they are on to you, junior...
Take a look on how Chelsea Clinton has been treated by Right Wing media, and Trump supporters.
Take a look on how Malia Obama is being treated. She's barely adult now, but the right wing said things like: “Looks like a typical street whore.” and “Wonder when she will have her first abortion.”already when she was eleven.
Eleven.
Kai is 13 now, but think what if someone said something like that about her.
Then think about Hunter Biden. He hasn't said anything about you, even though there's plenty to talk about. Joe Biden hasn't said anything about you.
So why are you talking about Hunter? Why is your dad? If you should be "shielded" from the media, even when you participate in it, why aren't you "shielding" Hunter Biden? You know the things you talk about are lies.
"As the child of one of our country's wealthiest men, I was placed squarely in the top 1 percent of our society from birth. As much as the press seemed to want me to be ashamed of that or apologize for it, I'm not and I won’t. As the son of a rich white man, I know I’m not allowed to have an opinion, let alone voice it these days."
Has anyone actually ever told you to be ashamed of being born rich? I don't think so. Just as well as I don't believe you have ever been expected to apologize for it.
Or has anyone told you you are not allowed to have an opinion or voice it? Or any other rich kid?
This is all just a strawman.
It's like all those idiots online saying stupid things like "I will never be ashamed of being American and proud of it!" Good. Don't. No-one is asking you to, either.
ROTFLMAO! Sure.
"The liberal press will tell you that I got into Wharton because my father’s donations to the school, but they won’t tell you about how hard I worked for the grades to get in on my own."
What about all those kids who worked hard for the grades, but were never even considered, because their dads hadn't been in Wharton, and couldn't donate any money?
"The press portrayed me as a rich brat from one of the wealthiest zip codes in the country, but they won’t tell you how I spent every summer in communist Czechoslovakia when I was a kid or the manual labor I did growing up for my father (I remember my father saying, “If you’re going to build a building, you better know how to dig a foundation”) or that I spend weeks sleeping on the couches of my hunting buddies, or about the twelve-hour days I worked at Trump Org."
Actually, vacationing in Europe is something only rich people do, and it doesn't matter at all the country was the Communist Czechoslovakia. For children it's all the same, your grandparents saw you fed and safe, and send you safely back to USA when the vacation was over.
The manual labor you did, you did because you chose to do it, not because your family would have gone hungry if you didn't work. Considering that there still are thousands of young, promising men and women, who can't afford to get an education, but have to start working as soon as they can get a job, some do so, so that their younger siblings could get a college education and a chance to get a better life... do you seriously think you work harder than the union guys your dad hires, or that you are smarter? That you owe nothing to the fact that your dad could give you a well-paying job when you were young, pay for your boarding school and college, and then give you a job when you decided you wanted to work for him?
Sleeping on the couches of your hunting buddies - doesn't change anything. In the end of the day, week, month, even a year, you go back to your daddy's house.
About the twelve hour days you worked at Trump Org. I have often done 12 hour work days, both white and blue collar. White collar - no problems. Blue - wouldn't want to do that often.
Frankly, what could you possibly be doing daily that you find so demanding you are stating it as an example of why you are NOT a spoiled rich brat?
And are you suggesting all the other rich kids are lazy bums? Then why not tax them more and lower the taxes for everyone who earns and has less property than a million? Why punish the hardworking Americans?
You can take it, you can make that money in a minute, I'm sure.
And what would you not sacrifice for your beloved working class?
By paying just 2 % property tax, you would relieve thousands of working class families from all tax burden! Use that as your running program 2024. Higher taxes for the 10%, lower taxes for 90%. If the rich get angry with you, who cares, you'd have the votes of the 90%.
"And, it didn’t take long for them to start calling me a white supremacist."
You are making that one too easy... I mean, it's hard to not call you on it, when you do things like this.
Donald Trump Jr. has a white supremacist problem
Is James Comey fired and since disgraced
Well... Trump fired James Comey, and I wouldn't say he's "disgraced".
But this issue bores me, so I'm not going to bother about it any more. I suppose we'll find out more about it next year.
"They haven’t, however, been fair to my father since his decision to run for president, or any conservative other than the ones who try so desperately to be loved by the media so they turn on my father. There’s Mitt Romney, for instance. How quickly that weakling forgot what the press did to him during his failed run for president. But unlike Trump, he was too weak to fight back, and that’s why he lost. The media got the scalp they were looking for."
I'm more interested in how quickly Ted Cruz forgot what your dad did to him during his failed run for president.
Mitt Romney lost because he was running against Obama. I have to say that much for your dad, he never even tried. Some self-preservation he has. But not enough to not try a second term. Had he left to seek new adventures because being a president is a dirty job, and he has better things to do, he would have been unconquered. Now he will be remembered as the guy who lost to Joe Biden.
"Maybe no other statement by my father is a more significant trigger to the MSM than when he says the press is the enemy of the people. It actually sounds terrible. But if you look at their actions over the past three years, how could a reasonable person come to a different conclusion?"
A reasonable person would come to a different conclusion.
The quote by Thomas Jefferson you snort at is:
“Our liberty cannot be guarded but by the freedom of the press, nor that be limited without danger of losing it.”
"Fake news is about as patriotic as a flag burning."
Which can be discussed. Unless you are a fascist and think things cannot be discussed, but must be accepted as black or white according to the Higher Authority.
"My father brought his adult children and their spouses to meet the queen, which caused a furor in the liberal press. How dare he bring his family!"
Yes... how dares the liberal press be upset about Trump making the tax payers pay for the travel expenses of his... how many you are now? Five? Six? What ever. You and your spouses and nieces and nephews and auntie Mabel, and of course Bill needs to get to come, too, he has always wanted to see the Buckingham Palace!
"The next day, The Daily Beast , or the “the Daily Least” as I like to call them, and the British press, which always looks for the negative angle, posted stories that we’d run out on our tab and stuck poor Caroline Kennedy with the bill. We hadn’t. If the reporter who wrote the story had bothered to check, they would have known that we had prearranged to have the bill sent to us."
Well... "poor" Caroline Kennedy said "I don’t think we’ve to worry about getting paid for that. We were told it’d be all sorted later so there’s no problem." Sounds like she didn't know you "had prearranged to have the bill sent to you".
But, it wasn't big news. No-one much cared. I don't think many in USA even knew about it.
"Out of all the lies the press has written about me, you would think that running out on a bar tab wouldn’t even make the list."
Yeah... but it seems to me you have been taking everything with in this book, so why not put this in, too.
"Soon, social media will be the main deliverer of news, and that’s only going to make it worse for people looking for the truth."
You didn't think about that when you decided to start bashing the press and journalists, did you?
If you say people can't trust the newspapers and news channels, then everybody becomes a journalist, and everyone's story is as valid.
And still you aren't talking about questioning everything, verifying and fact-checking.
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