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Locknuts on 25 January 2017
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Flilix said:
Locknuts said:
I can understand why people react this way. The media and various people on the left, including most of Hollywood have been painting a picture of Trump as 'Hitleresque'. Some ever stupidly refer to him as 'literally Hitler'.

They think he's the sexist, racist, fascist that the liberal media have portrayed, and they are reacting accordingly. How would you feel if you believed Hitler (or something very close) was now the leader of the free world? In charge of nuclear weapons?

Of course these people are being ridiculous. Trump lacks class and he lacks tact, but he is not racist, sexist or a fascist, in my opinion. Nothing he has said or done indicates this to me.

The media should absolutely hold him to account. It will be a refreshing change from the 8 year rim job that Obama received from most of them. But they should do it honestly, and they have been portraying him dishonestly up to this point.

Only a very small part of the media is anti Trump. Sure, a lot of news papers and sites covered his inappropriate quotes and behaviour, bujt they would do exactly the same if any other celebrity would say things like that. In a lot of cases, their career would even be destroyed with such quotes.

The only reason people think the media is anti Trump, is because Trump told them that. He suppressed the media with some ingenious psychology. By saying that everybody who criticises him is lying, and by constantly repeating that, people start to believe him. Even if they have facts, proof or exact data, he will simply say it's not true and he will make up some 'alternative facts'. Neither the media nor his political opponents can say he's lying, because in the minds of the people, lying is linked very strongly to anyone who is against Trump.
This part of psychology, on which a big part of Trump's campaign is based, is called 'framing': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framing_(social_sciences)

CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times and to a lesser extent, The Washington Post have a clear anti Trump agenda. They are are an increasingly small part of the media, but still very significant to the uneducated masses in the USA. 

Studies including one from UCLA (a pretty left leaning University I believe) show the left leaning bias of the media, and those mentioned above are a little more left leaning than most. CNN and the NYT were proven to have gone out of their way to either promote Clinton or villify Trump.

Trump simply pointed out what people could see was obvious. I don't think he's smart enough to be that devious. He simply sees problems and wants to fix them, including a left leaning mainstream media.