This is absolutely the case. Also, he will take credit for many of the actually impressive economic realities that Biden made happen. All of that infrastructure investment, many of which is just now starting to flow, which the GOP sought to block? Trump will take credit. Don't let him. - ThreadSky

mmasnick.bsky.social • 115 days ago

This is absolutely the case. Also, he will take credit for many of the actually impressive economic realities that Biden made happen. All of that infrastructure investment, many of which is just now starting to flow, which the GOP sought to block? Trump will take credit.

Don't let him.

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mdpoppa.bsky.social•114 days ago

Consistent Republican playbook, just more Trumpian

sodiumboat.bsky.social•114 days ago

You're getting at the thing that makes me the most hopeless though. I can march, I can donate, I can volunteer, I can apply my skills, but I can't do a goddamned thing to make major media report reality. How does anyone other than a handful of editors and journalists "not let him"?

patmelo.bsky.social•113 days ago

This. I'm making active plans to try to survive the next 3 years, if possible, and then leave. Making plans to leave earlier if not possible. I don't think we will be able to break though in any meanimgful way in terms of communication.

mmasnick.bsky.social•114 days ago

Just keep speaking out. Your voice matters. Everyone's voice matters. It may reach one person only. But that still matters, and can start things flowing. Don't give in.

sinfall.bsky.social•114 days ago

Stick to more local sources, start writing your own op eds and sending to them is something I am seriously considering. Unfortunately that is also a much faster dying industry.

patmelo.bsky.social•113 days ago

Man, I wish I lived in an area where I thought this could help. I'm in DC suburbs & our only (free!) local paper suddenly & absolutely turned right wing machine 6 mos. before Youngkin.
Not even gonna talk about WaPo.
It's so depressing.

thewesterhazys.bsky.social•114 days ago

He did this with unemployment last time saying the labor dept was faking everything to make it seem better than it was and then a month after taking office touting their numbers.

neqone.bsky.social•114 days ago

It's going to be a repeat of December 2016 all over again. I also predict that the MSM will let him get away with and the CW among Americans will be that it is true. It is frustrating and enraging.

sam.abuelsamid.com•110 days ago

The vast majority of the media already proved pretty conclusively since 2015 and especially during the campaign that they have neither the ability or willingness to hold Trump to account. Why should we expect that to change now?

zenaphobe.bsky.social•114 days ago

I'm sure the corporate owned media wouldn't dare give credit to Trump when it's not due like they have the last 4 years and especially like they did in the lead up to election day

shoutingboy.bsky.social•114 days ago

Honestly, “Trump does nothing and claims credit for Biden’s successes” is just about the best-case scenario right now. If he does that I’m not sure we should try to stop him.

ianrobo.bsky.social•114 days ago

and Mike he will stop data being published .... the independence of the Fed is finished of course.

finintheland.bsky.social•114 days ago

Here’s the thing-most of his policies - tax cuts, anti-immigration, tariffs - will increase inflation. You can try to control / deflect the media spin, but at the end of the day the grocery bill is what it is.

drbob601.bsky.social•114 days ago

It’ll be pretty easy for him to do so, since Biden hardly bothered to take any credit himself and red state governors & senators (who all voted against the funding) have already been gladly (and shamelessly) stealing the credit for themselves.

Major communication failure by the Biden admin.

ilk.org•115 days ago

And it will work because a) the right wing media machine will amplify it and b) most other traditional media won’t show how it’s a lie.

rntropy.bsky.social•114 days ago

Yep. NPR was one of the many legacy media outlets that completely failed the public this election cycle by repeatedly sane washing Trump, repeating his lies and framing, and utterly obscuring the true stakes of his re-election.

Sagal and NPR can get bent. No Trump Bump for awful media this time

4quad.bsky.social•114 days ago

They've been shit since 9/11, right around the time the GOP foisted an ombudsman on them to enforce "balance".

jjv124.bsky.social•114 days ago

Not a single outlet pointed out in 2016 he swore the unemployment numbers, the economic numbers were lies and fake, then took office and said they were real and great and his

nicholasventure.bsky.social•114 days ago

Vance signaled they would do this at the debate. He basically echoed already passed legislation as "their plan" and no one called it out.

trtlla.bsky.social•114 days ago

The NYT headline will say "Trump Claims Victory Over _____." Any real investigation of the claims will be on page 17 or maybe an in depth investigative piece the next month.

kga.bsky.social•114 days ago

This frustrated me the most to think about on election night. You could argue he already did a version of this last time, drafting off of the steady economic improvement post 08. Now he can draft off post covid improvements. All the while using democrat successes to justify bs tax breaks.

crobruncato.bsky.social•114 days ago

I remember the GOP helping make insulin affordable...

unhandyandy.bsky.social•114 days ago

He might even just say that his mere election has changed the economy so much that it's no longer necessary to carry out his proposals, which he probably realizes would be disastrous

aunticles.bsky.social•114 days ago

Even if he weren't what he is, he'd still take credit for Biden's wins and then run the economy into the ground. It's what Conservatives do. Voters think they understand the economy because they're rich

ammartin.bsky.social•114 days ago

The things he doesn't dismantle he will take credit for.

CHIPS and infrastructure could fall in either camp.

getoffmyhack.bsky.social•114 days ago

Unless our current media system changes it's course, they will just go along and parrot his words without rebuttal.

The next few years they will need to kiss Trump's ass if they don't want to end up on his enemies list, and we have yet to see how he plans on implementing his retribution.

banksta.bsky.social•114 days ago

Of course he will take credit for all of the good things the Democrats have done. He’s always done this. He’s not a worker. He’s lazy. But republican politicians have been doing the same thing. Stupid people just don’t notice. 🙄

saxis.bsky.social•114 days ago

Trump will take credit. \#\winning will be deployed, and spread widely. Respectable journalists and folks like us will say "well, actually ...". Amber Rose and UFC-adjacent folks will state "cry more, liberals". And that will be that. #idiocracy

sa1vatore.bsky.social•114 days ago

There really is no “don’t let him”. He’ll do it, the people that believe every word he says will buy it. The people that hate him won’t. And the wheel goes round and round

hal10000.bsky.social•114 days ago

Groundwork already laid. Republicans were claiming credit for the disaster relief bills they voted against.

funkfunky.bsky.social•114 days ago

And the trash media will just go along with it as they have been for decades.

cforde.github.io•114 days ago

yes, because they are owned by billionaires beholden to Trump.

eltopo71.com•114 days ago

tonchrysoprase.bsky.social•114 days ago

It's the last part that confuses me. The media went all out to avoid reporting on Biden's successes. Pretending that they magically contribute to fixing this is just (lower case c) conservative brain rot.

pauloftheusa.bsky.social•114 days ago

Doesn’t matter. His supporters will believe him. Saying otherwise is just more fake news.

shawnlacymusic.bsky.social•114 days ago

I hope people start sticking the Biden “I did that” stickers on everything. Would really piss off the orange man

thepines.bsky.social•115 days ago

He has almost the entire media that caters to him tho. How on earth can anything true get through to any voters anymore?

peculiarsusan.bsky.social•114 days ago

Any hope of that was squashed by Bezos.

funkfunky.bsky.social•114 days ago

They will let him. There is no evidence they will do otherwise.

mkrebs.bsky.social•113 days ago

In what world are all these journalist who aren't going to kiss his ass?

mmasnick.bsky.social•113 days ago

Just ignore the journalist who do that. Support the ones who speak the truth.

We need people to stop whining and start helping.

goaskalis.bsky.social•114 days ago

And it will work

wtarbiat.bsky.social•114 days ago

If he goes with Tariffs there's no way he can just say "inflation has gone!". A significant chunk of the Trump vote will sour.

grapes1951.bsky.social•114 days ago

If he follows his plans to a) mass deport, b) impose broad tariffs, and c) gut ACA … he will leave chaos and destruction throughout the economy.

If we can’t stop him, we must document it relentlessly. Drive the focussed message home for two years into the midterms and for two years more to 2028.

grapes1951.bsky.social•114 days ago

Trump Recession
Trump Inflation
Trump Medical Crisis
Trump Labor Crisis
Trump Trade Crisis
Trump Deficit Crisis

Most of these will become real

10levelfusion.bsky.social•109 days ago

It’s gonna be the #LeopardsAteMyFace syndrome for a lot of magats.

stephkat17.bsky.social•114 days ago

Absolutely not. Trump will blame higher prices on immigrants, on China, on Biden, on freaking Hilary Clinton, and they will eat it up. It will NEVER be his fault.

peculiarsusan.bsky.social•114 days ago

No, it won’t. They’ll blame Biden.

sporkyreeve.bsky.social•114 days ago

I’ve been consistently informed by several Trump supporters over the last few years that inflation hasn’t gotten better until now the prices revert to their previous state, so I’ll be holding them to that standard

korghee.bsky.social•114 days ago

Hell, he already did that with $35 insulin. Just flat out said, "I did that".

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/14/politics/fact-check-insulin-trump-biden-harris/index.html

thrillhouse512.bsky.social•114 days ago

Ok but when you say "don't let him," how do you really stop him? He was constantly called on the $35 insulin lie and we hammered him endlessly on blocking the border security bill, but nothing sticks to him

pophouse.bsky.social•114 days ago

well, maybe you could buy a legacy newspaper or major social media platform?

lostwebsite.net•114 days ago

That's not going to happen. He's going to threaten the first organization that manage to make a little headway on reporting on his lies.

They'll all march to his beat very soon.

gbaji.bsky.social•114 days ago

Merely speaking the truth is no longer sufficient. We live in separate information bubbles now. Epistemic closure is complete.

giraffey.bsky.social•114 days ago

Exactly, just the same way he convinced them he had nothing to do with Project 2025 which is now in full swing.

unlabeledelder.bsky.social•114 days ago

The press will let him.

dtipson.bsky.social•114 days ago

They will absolutely let him. They are very busy people, they can't do anything other than let him, or at least let him and then maybe in paragraph 24 concede that they didn't let him, but they'll let their masters let him, because they are just cogs

bennettelder.net•114 days ago

Every person I’ve talked to that I’ve had to subsequently unfriend had zero ability to respond to that, that things are (were?) moving the right direction and policy takes time and results will solidify just in time for him to take credit. They had zero sense of that, always thinking about now.

coloradocatmom.bsky.social•114 days ago

HOW can we stop him? By posting a lot on social media? That's mostly what we did in Trump's first term & it didn't work. I think Trump would've been reelected last time if it wasn't for Covid. Please share ideas about how we can help Biden & Dems get the credit deserved.

wscaddie56.bsky.social•114 days ago

Mike, come on
Journalists? I haven't seen one major media institution cover politics accurately since Trump came down the escalator, including NPR
We certainly need more yous, but definitely not people that call themselves journalists

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