The Trump Dump (Take em. Post em)
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What are your thoughts on Trump's interview with Axios reporter Jonathan Swan on Monday 08/03/20?
People keep mentioning Trump’s wholesale blunders with the Axios Team, which are very hard to watch in what was essentially an hour-long ‘slaughter’, but I took something very different from the interview.
I finally learned the common phrase and pivot Trump uses to try and get himself out of answering a question or having to justify his actions.
His phrase:
Let me explain… (or some variation)
Simple, right? To someone used to watching interviews and seeing hard-hitting discussions that turn into verbal slugging matches, this deflection tactic is pretty easy to spot and quite awful, but it’s the way Trump uses that phrase to barrel through his interviewer and unavoidably change the subject that’s fascinating.
The interviewer knows he avoided answering the question and wants to drill him on a falsehood, but that phrase leads to the pivot and a hail of ‘information’ that forces the interviewer to begrudgingly move on because of their limited time. To Swan’s credit, he really held his own and I thought he had some great follow-up questions, but I constantly saw his frustration in prying the answer out of Trump.
It seems to work A LOT. He uses it in almost every interaction with the press. That consistency his supporters talk about? It’s the use of this ‘appeal to authority’. When he invokes the ‘let me explain card’ he more than likely mentions China, Russia, the economy, or trade specifically (anything that his administration has taken some action on that he thinks is ‘tremendous’). In other words, his pivot requires him to throw someone or something under the bus for him to survive.
Even though what he brings up is most probably wrong, by just fleetingly mentioning that he’s ‘explaining’ something, with the clout of being the president, it makes people believe his narrative. This repeated use leads to this ‘information’ becoming common household ‘knowledge’ among his constituents.
I realized, I always thought I kind of stuck to my guns on issues as a moderate and I can certainly say I haven’t changed my stance on any issues since I became more politically informed, but my interpretation of certain politicians and political groups had become distorted. I had allowed these verifiable falsehoods and slanders to give me a much more negative mindset of liberals and total indifference to conservatives all because I thought listening to Trump would allow me to see through his lies. In all honesty, I had gotten trapped within them.
I thankfully had come to my senses a while ago, but this realization fascinated me. I always couldn’t understand why people said he was a good orator with his limited vocabulary and lack of basic knowledge on almost every issue, but when a figure repeats something enough times and you hear it enough from people, it makes you question your own basic reality.
Still, this tactic doesn’t top his use of bandwagon, but that’s a topic for another time.
People keep mentioning Trump’s wholesale blunders with the Axios Team, which are very hard to watch in what was essentially an hour-long ‘slaughter’, but I took something very different from the interview.
I finally learned the common phrase and pivot Trump uses to try and get himself out of answering a question or having to justify his actions.
His phrase:
Let me explain… (or some variation)
Simple, right? To someone used to watching interviews and seeing hard-hitting discussions that turn into verbal slugging matches, this deflection tactic is pretty easy to spot and quite awful, but it’s the way Trump uses that phrase to barrel through his interviewer and unavoidably change the subject that’s fascinating.
The interviewer knows he avoided answering the question and wants to drill him on a falsehood, but that phrase leads to the pivot and a hail of ‘information’ that forces the interviewer to begrudgingly move on because of their limited time. To Swan’s credit, he really held his own and I thought he had some great follow-up questions, but I constantly saw his frustration in prying the answer out of Trump.
It seems to work A LOT. He uses it in almost every interaction with the press. That consistency his supporters talk about? It’s the use of this ‘appeal to authority’. When he invokes the ‘let me explain card’ he more than likely mentions China, Russia, the economy, or trade specifically (anything that his administration has taken some action on that he thinks is ‘tremendous’). In other words, his pivot requires him to throw someone or something under the bus for him to survive.
Even though what he brings up is most probably wrong, by just fleetingly mentioning that he’s ‘explaining’ something, with the clout of being the president, it makes people believe his narrative. This repeated use leads to this ‘information’ becoming common household ‘knowledge’ among his constituents.
I realized, I always thought I kind of stuck to my guns on issues as a moderate and I can certainly say I haven’t changed my stance on any issues since I became more politically informed, but my interpretation of certain politicians and political groups had become distorted. I had allowed these verifiable falsehoods and slanders to give me a much more negative mindset of liberals and total indifference to conservatives all because I thought listening to Trump would allow me to see through his lies. In all honesty, I had gotten trapped within them.
I thankfully had come to my senses a while ago, but this realization fascinated me. I always couldn’t understand why people said he was a good orator with his limited vocabulary and lack of basic knowledge on almost every issue, but when a figure repeats something enough times and you hear it enough from people, it makes you question your own basic reality.
Still, this tactic doesn’t top his use of bandwagon, but that’s a topic for another time.
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Trump said he will pursue an order requiring health insurers to cover pre-existing conditions, a stipulation already made by the Affordable Care Act.
Does he think he's a king now, that can decree anything he wants into existence ???
Trump weighing executive order to force insurers to cover pre-existing conditions, something Obamacare does
Trump said he will pursue an order requiring health insurers to cover pre-existing conditions, a stipulation already made by the Affordable Care Act.news.yahoo.com
But Obama......
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