BREAKING: Trump Just Warned Of 'Major Event' That Will Change America For Years To Come
President Donald Trump just confirmed a sad but true fact about our great nation and her
citizens.
Only hours before giving his first State of the Union address President Donald Trump said
his main goal is to unite the country amid "tremendous divisiveness."
But he doubts that will even be possible unless a traumatic event happens that seriously affects
Americans, such as what happened on September 11, 2001.
President Trump told a group on news anchors during a luncheon that his biggest hopes were
to be able to unify the country in the way it hasn't been seen since the impeachment
of former president Bill Clinton.
He also added that Americans usually come together during times of suffering but it's
a shame that that's what it takes for them to come together.
The president also added that the country's current divisions date all the way back to
both Republican and Democratic administrations, citing the scandals that led to Clinton's
impeachment by the House in 1998 as the reason the whole divisive atmosphere began.
And then it continued when President George W. Bush was able to squeak out a win by a
mere 537 votes in Florida after a nasty legal fight which went on for over 3 weeks during
the 2000 election.Trump said: "I would love to be able to bring back our country into
a great form of unity," Trump said.
"Without a major event where people pull together, that's hard to do.
But I would like to do it without that major event because usually that major event is
not a good thing.
I want to see our country united.
I want to bring our country back from a tremendous divisiveness, which has taken place not just
over one year, over many years, including the Bush years, not just Obama."President
Trump is correct, but not 100 percent correct.
The nation did stand united after 9/11/2001, but for how long?
To my knowledge, it only took the media around 2 months after the attack to start blaming
President Bush for everything.Wherever you would look there were people protesting a
war we didn't start, but one we had to finish.
The media branded President Bush and Vice President Cheney war mongers and lit the flame
under the modern anti-war movement.
An anti-war movement which totally disappeared once Obama was elected into office, although
he pretty much kept up the same was policies Bush had.
What we really need in order to unite is to get rid of the mainstream liberal media.
Via Fox News:
Liberal CNN publishes column asking to ban the term 'fake news'
CNN wants to ban the term "fake news?"
In an opinion piece on the cable news network's website Sunday, writers Hossein Derakhshan
and Claire Wardle called for scrapping the term President Trump has made synonymous with
CNN.
The duo wrote that use of the term "fake news" is "not only self-defeating, it
oversimplifies a very complex problem" and it devalues the expression that has "become
meaningless" over the past year.
The phrase is now "used to describe any piece of information that someone else didn't
like" and has been "has become weaponized by politician," Derakhshan and Wardle wrote,
adding the term should be used when referring to clearly false content such as the viral
photo of a shark swimming up a Texas highway during Hurricane Harvey (spoiler alert: the
photo wasn't real).
Derakhshan and Wardle recently co-authored a report, "Information Disorder," which
was commissioned by the Council of Europe.
They claim the problem exists all over the world, but most Americans likely associate
"fake news" with CNN, thanks to President Trump's relentless branding.
CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker has implemented an anti-Trump programming strategy at the
network that was once known for Ted Turner's bare bones "just-the-facts" approach to
journalism.
As a result, Trump refers to CNN as "fake news" on a regular basis and mocked the
network on Twitter as recently as Monday.
"Establishment press outlets have spent the past year disseminating fake news while
working feverishly, through their bogus and highly selective 'fact-checkers,' to discredit
legitimate center-right voices."
– Newsbusters contributing editor Tom Blumer Wardle recently appeared on CNN's "Reliable
Sources," where she told host Brian Stelter the term is "being used as a weapon" against
the news industry and said Americans have to be "much more careful" about the language
that is used to describe content.
Derakhshan and Wardle focus on three different terms that can be used to replace "fake
news," which are "misinformation," "disinformation" and "malinformation.," claiming each one
can be a replacement in various situations.
The duo blames social media for adding "an entirely new dimension to the phenomenon"
of fake news, but many media watchdogs would simply blame CNN and how it covers the White
House.
"Wardle may not like the term, but Stelter's November 2016 segment is just one of so many
genuine textbook examples of 'fake news' the network has shamelessly promoted," Newsbusters
contributing editor Tom Blumer wrote.
"Establishment press outlets have spent the past year disseminating fake news while
working feverishly, through their bogus and highly selective 'fact-checkers,' to discredit
legitimate center-right voices."
CNN Senior White House Correspondent Jim Acosta has emerged as one of the faces of anti-Trump
liberal media, regularly interrupting press briefings with grandstanding and providing
personal opinions about the administration on a consistent basis.
During a press conference earlier this year, Trump literally pointed at Acosta and said,
"You're fake news."
The network's primetime programming is littered with large panel discussions, often featuring
numerous liberal analysts against a single quasi-Trump supporter.
CNN also airs documentary-style specials aimed to criticize Trump and has several anchors,
such as Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon, which have become household names simply for attacking
the president on a regular basis.
Trump recently suggested that Americans should have a contest between ABC, NBC, CBS and CNN
to determine which news organization is the most "dishonest," with the winner receiving
a "fake news trophy."
Trump took to Twitter earlier this month to slam Zucker's network, saying he was "forced
to watch" it while on an overseas trip to Asia and the experience reminded him why he
dislikes the content with such passion.
CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta prepares to go on the air after the daily press briefing,
during which he had a contentious exchanges with White House senior policy advisor Stephen
Miller, at the White House in Washington, U.S. August 2, 2017.
REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst – RC1693D7B420 "While in the Philippines I was forced to
watch @CNN, which I have not done in months, and again realized how bad, and FAKE, it is,"
Trump wrote.
"Loser!"
It wasn't clear who Trump was referring to when he ended his tweet with "loser,"
but it shouldn't be a tough case to crack.
Zucker's anti-Trump game plan has helped both TV ratings and digital traffic at the
liberal CNN, but it's not the first time Trump has enhanced Zucker's livelihood.
He was in charge of NBC when Trump's "The Apprentice" became a hit for the network.
At one point, when NBC's prime time lineup was flailing, "The Apprentice" was NBC's
most successful show and Trump its biggest star.
Meanwhile, Trump claims he's helped Zucker's career (something Zucker gently refutes) and
the president has been absolutely clear that he resents CNN's constant attacks on him.
The CNN editorial that calls for a ban on the term "fake news" doesn't mention
Trump by name, but it will be interesting to see if the president responds.
Perhaps Trump will remind Americans that CNN recently mislead viewers by editing a video
to make it appear that he botched an old tradition of feeding carp at a Koi pond in Tokyo — something
that surely would have secured the "fake news trophy."
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