Trump shyly confesses that he doesn’t watch much tv, he’s too much of a bookworm.
Over the weekend, as Air Force One made its way to Vietnam, President Trump was questioned about Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore. Wasn’t it time, Trump was asked, for the president to cut his support of Moore, given a spate of allegations about his behavior with teenage girls several decades ago?
“Well, again,” Trump replied, “I’ve been with you folks, so I haven’t gotten to see too much. And believe it or not, even when I’m in Washington and New York, I do not watch much television. I know they like to say — people that don’t know me — they like to say I watch television. People with fake sources — you know, fake reporters, fake sources. But I don’t get to watch much television, primarily because of documents. I’m reading documents a lot, and different things.”
Oh yes, documents. He’s reading them a lot, and absorbing nothing. At any rate, people who know him know he always has his nose in a book and never watches that box that holds the Fox News stories. Never. The fact that he so frequently tweets what they just said is pure magical coincidence.
Notice, though, that his response reveals how he takes in news: by seeing it. He doesn’t say, “I haven’t gotten to read too much.” And in case you think he’s using “see” in the broader sense of seeing things on TV or online, he quickly explains that he’s talking about television.
Which he says does not watch much.
After he left Vietnam, he traveled to the Philippines for a summit. While there, he was subjected to a horrifying experience: Being “forced” to watch CNN.
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. Loser!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2017
He was captured by terrorists while he was there? Why weren’t we told?
There are multiple levels of weirdness here. Who did the forcing? Couldn’t he have chosen to not watch any television at all? Isn’t feeling compelled to watch television an odd thing to cop to days after insisting that you don’t watch a lot of television?
They had a gun to his head, I tell you! They swore he would never eat ice cream again if he didn’t watch.
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8 responses to “Primarily because of documents”
Maybe CNN was the only channel available. And there was no off button.
https://www.facebook.com/144310995587370/photos/a.271728576178944.71555.144310995587370/1720246314660489/?type=3&theater
Oh, you mean on the TV?
He needs an Al-foil toupee to screen those damaging TV-waves that influence his mind. Such as it is. Or stanniol. No, make that lead.
Wonder at what point The Donald became an avid reader.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bd79UsXSLWg
Maybe it’s time for some Gotcha journalism: “Mr. President, what books are you reading these days?”
“Oh, I… Well, you know… All of them.”
That’s like when Dubya carried around large books to “look smart”. It’s so amusing how all these Republican presidents make their political career by anti-intellectualism, claiming that they are men of the people, but at the same time are determined to appear smarter, more intellectual, and more well read than their Democrat opponents.
Deep down, I suspect almost all anti-intellectualism is bred in a desire to be able to be seen as “smart” that translates into “smart people are really dumbasses”. Then eventually it filtered into the academy, where I have had many encounters with anti-intellectual academics because they feel that any education that goes beyond job skill training is setting oneself above the common man, and putting on airs. Never mind that some of us just learn stuff because we want to learn stuff. I learned the skills necessary for my job (more on the job than off), and the rest of it was all frosting, but really, what’s a cake without frosting?
Ben #5
Does looking at the pictures (preferably of Donald Trump) count?
#7: Maybe, if they come with an elementary coloring scheme?