{"id":136350,"date":"2018-05-09T10:47:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T16:47:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136350"},"modified":"2018-05-09T18:39:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T00:39:25","slug":"for-trump-negative-fake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/09\/for-trump-negative-fake.html","title":{"rendered":"For Trump, &#8220;Negative&#8221; = &#8220;Fake&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The article headline below is a little overblown, but not much. Trump makes it clear in passing (which means it&#8217;s probably true) that he considers negative news about him to be, <i>per se,<\/i> &#8220;Fake&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Whether this means that he is just using &#8220;Fake&#8221; as a conveniently deflecting synonym for negative\/critical, or that he truly believes that there <i>is<\/i> nothing he&#8217;s done that could ever, in any way, be considered in a negative light, I leave as an exercise for the reader.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2018\/05\/trump-admits-he-calls-all-negative-news-fake.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+nymag\/intelligencer+(Daily+Intelligencer+-+New+York+Magazine)&amp;mid=googleplus_nymag\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/xzJpv2wF7oXdgeYOYOXQ_7vte8m9MPvLFlYtAuvwIdy6nQMzo1uc3EjhQ8V6cp206wx__9uDiTeu0creAc-gfU0kURM8vQwxqyctP5fHNUEarUBpdshWR8dUXdcbOi8-6caB=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2018\/05\/trump-admits-he-calls-all-negative-news-fake.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+nymag\/intelligencer+(Daily+Intelligencer+-+New+York+Magazine)&amp;mid=googleplus_nymag\">Trump Admits He Calls All Negative News \u2018Fake\u2019<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/is6ycfsC4aS\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The article headline below is a little overblown, but not much. Trump makes it clear in passing (which means it&#8217;s probably true) that he considers negative news about him to be, per se, &#8220;Fake&#8221;. Whether this means that he is just using &#8220;Fake&#8221; as a conveniently deflecting synonym for negative\/critical, or that he truly believes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/09\/for-trump-negative-fake.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;For Trump, &#8220;Negative&#8221; = &#8220;Fake&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,1071],"tags":[1077],"class_list":["post-136350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-trump","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/trump-some-more.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131315,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/19\/voting-negative.html","url_meta":{"origin":136350,"position":0},"title":"Voting Negative","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 19-Aug-16 9:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A new Pew survey has some interesting confirmation of what a lot of folk have suspected about this presidential election.http:\/\/www.people-press.org\/2016\/08\/18\/1-voters-general-election-preferences\/#more-negative-voting-than-in-08To wit, a lot more people are voting negatively this election -- voting against someone they dislike -- than in the past. 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For 99.9% of the people who get one, it's just an amusing thing to have on the wall of their den or man-cave or something. That the Trump Organization would fake a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132942,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/02\/28\/tweetizen-trump-2017-02-28-cherry-picking.html","url_meta":{"origin":136350,"position":3},"title":"Tweetizen Trump &#8211; 2017-02-28 &quot;Cherry Picking&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-Feb-17 7:27am","format":false,"excerpt":"Let's see what zany thing you had to say in roughly the last 24 hours, Donald!===\u25ba #Obamacare has failed. We are going to #RepealAndReplace! [5]That was from your meeting with US Governors. 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