This is basically the Monty Python skit - “ok, ok, aside from the Russian State media, he’s taken questions from all sides. Ok, but aside from calling all unfriendly outlets Fake News and barring them, he’s been very accessible”. It’s a veritable case of aqueduct denialism.
"Trump may seem rambling or erratic" - try insane or incoherent. This sidling up to Felon47 makes me ill. And how many will read and agree? #CorruptionInReporting
Since it's all 💩 anyway, he's definitely the most Poster of presidents so he was always the most "accessible." Like all true posters and trolls, he can never log off 🫡 and constantly "communicates" with everyone. 🙄🤥
People who are deliberately avoiding Justice blame politics for everything. And use it to redirect the spotlight to their own narrative. Scared & complicit media help them. Trump's crimes are unprecedented and deserve the focus.
oh shit you mean it turns out that people who only operate by lying and scamming tend to put more effort to get in front of people they need to lie to and scam? this is a revelation. what a discovery.
Aside from the fact that every answer is usually a bald faced lie, or he just refuses to answer. I want a President who is working, not trying grab screen time before he plays golf.
How does lying and calling reporters awful make him accessible? How does feigning no knowledge of or, more terrifyingly, actually not knowing about what his administration is doing make him accessible? He is not a contestant on a reality show, he is the President of the United States.
Part of what got Biden elected was that he wasn’t seeking to be the main character in a reality show presidency. He promised government that could work for people as opposed to government that performed for the cameras.
A slight change of words from one of my father's favorite adages applies "Is it better to stay quiet and let them assume you're mentally incapacitaed, or speak up and prove it?"
Media wanted more access and they got it. However, I wouldn’t call his media appearances a good thing given lies, misinformation, and attacks he most often makes. Just trying to hold him accountable to his own words gets you berated.
"He's basically taken questions for all comers" yeah that's pretty easy to do if you feel no obligaiton to answer those questions and are free to yell at and belittle reporters whose questions you don't enjoy with zero consequence
“Trump 2.0 has done media…” is the vaguest shit I’ve heard yet. Trump rambling nonsense to no pushback does not make him accessible, it makes him a mad king that the peasants must appease with attention or suffer the consequences
"Regular scrutiny" apparently also means pretending that the incredibly unhinged shit the president says is normal, as is spending most of his time indulging his need for attention instead of actually doing the job.
Desperately trying to control narratives with alternative realities is a public disservice to everybody. These aren't Q&A's. There's no advancement of truth or accountability, just zero integrity. Constant undue deference, weak questions & never following up when the chicken bawks away from reality.
The media wanted a reality show presidency and it really doesn’t matter if the coverage is substantial or informative, because access is all that matters.
Did Ted Bundy kill a few people? Sure. While some people might think that's a bad thing, it's important to remember that he was always nice to reporters.
Your standard for "impressive stuff" is pretty low. You seem impressed by a man who will say or do anything he wants, regardless of its vulgarity, morality, or legality.
Did you vote for him? If so, was it because his corruption is okay because he does it out in the open?
I dunno, I prefer my country’s leader to spend time at work, not blather about fake grievances in front of cameras and hammer out unhinged social media blasts at all hours
All the work Biden did and it comes down to camera time as the comparison??
The USA is so screwed
I would also argue that it doesn't count as "availability" if you're lying more often than not. As in his first term, the truth is not "available" to anyone.
Nothing here about the quality of these media events. The dementia and ignorance on full display, the childlike avoidance of real answers, the anger aimed at any reporter who dares ask a real question, the fluffing of donors and carping at "enemies". Sure, he's available-but who wants to hear it?
Who wrote this lavish tongue-bathing of the dictator? I hope whoever it was understands that slavish devotion and self-debasement won't save you when the stormtroopers come for the press. "Purge" doesn't only refer to a movie. History books can help with this.
When you can lie nonstop without concern of being called out for doing so, why not have story time with the media constantly? #ZEROAccountability #ZEROConsequences
Meanwhile, "Executives at major media outlets are reportedly instructing their newsrooms to temper their coverage of President Trump and his administration amid growing fears of political retribution." https://www.axios.com/2025/05/27/trump-journalism-pressure?
Then they are waiving the white flag to the Kremlin. I don’t think Americans will be forgiving to those who have enabled our country to be taken over by a terrorist like Putin. The freedom of the press & the right to peacefully protest, is all we have left.
Access is bullshit. Access isn't important. A journalist doesn't need to hear a word out of the president's mouth to report what the president is doing. It's a firehose of doing recently.
Start telling the truth,trumpy is ill,not healthy, or well at all,he's an old old man,living on mcnazi burgers,fat out of shape,a heart attack in the waiting, question is ,will it be soon enough??
The press continues to ignore Trump's cognitive decline because they fear they will not only be banned but also threatened with some fake law violation.
Wow. You have to admit, being educated about how trophy wives don't work so well was truly a remarkable point of access with the president of the united states (small caps intentional).
Your piece is spot on. I do wish that more media *would* say that more access to meaningless, unhinged, untruthful babble is not better. Do they not care that he is making shit up and makes no effort to convey legitimate information?
Last night, @1010wins.bsky.social read a press release from Trump's team about tariffs over the air in between coverage of traffic jams. I never thought of them as a Fox News situation but even the traffic reporters have bent the knee.
Retribution? Is that how executives face bullies? Is that how they handled them in school? Fight back. Tell the truth for once. Fight fire with more fire. Stand up to him and he will back down. You have the Constitution behind you and your legal team should be encouraging you to stand your ground.
@jimacosta.bsky.social discussed the pressure on newsrooms / talk shows to “temper their coverage” of Trump w/ @katiecouric.bsky.social on his Substack show. Worth 👀 it on his S. acct. Corporate media pressure is insidious. FYI , @repjasmine.bsky.social and @govofco.bsky.social also appeared.
Grow a pair or don’t let the door hit you on the way out. The media must speak the truth and truth is evident trump is an authoritarian seizing power and destroying us all
"Sure he's available to the press, but unless you watch the tape for yourself, we're going to sanewash the hell out of his nonsense and make it seem like he's only a little deranged, not completely dementia addled."
He’s accessible because he is a media whore who loves being on tv but doesn’t actually do the job of being president. Does the media think the job is to spend all day talking to them? Because this is how it reads and it’s ridiculous.
Is there also a comparison to former presidents? Most presidents were actually working. Trump likes being president for the very reason that he can be front and center as much as his narcissism needs.
We have been given 48 hours of blessed relief from his voice, though not, of course, from the endless vile bile of his so-called "thoughts" sent through the Internet.
he's always on tv because he and his admin are all treating governance as a reality tv show. being on tv gives him the attention he craves. it is not a positive.
Damn. How is it the media is the last to understand they are being played. This exposure is simply to restate lies because in tRump's own words, "if you say it often enough, people believe you."
And what has all that availability gotten us? Have the media learned to report about what's happening right in front of them that this man is an addled criminal? Where are those stories?
The thing is, Trump isn't open to scrutiny, he gaslights, mocks, evades, lies, lies, and lies. Doing so much press doesn't show he's a 'good' or 'better' president. He just likes to flap his gums and be on TV.
Well, I guess the lesson of the Biden Presidency is that simply doing a good job for the American people isn't what voters want. They'll accept horrible policies they oppose, as long as there's spectacle.
I don’t know, I think I’d prefer a president who’s busy doing his job, not standing in front of cameras all day waiting for people to praise him and ask softball questions while his minions dismantle the government and make the country a global laughingstock.
But that’s just me.
This would be true, but the number of untruths, misinformation spewing forth from him through the media is terribly damaging and dangerous to the country .
I don't want to hear from the President every day. I don't want to hear his opinion on everything. Run the country. If something is critical then come out and talk to us. Now it is just performance.
The dirty secret of MAGA is that Trump will never love anyone, least of all his voters, more than he loves the White House Press corp.
Trump is first and foremost a TV producer, and his crew and set mean a lot to him.
I’d rather see and hear less of a president. I don’t need to see someone trying to make news for the attention he gets rather than an actual issue that would require an appearance.
its really insane that the media doesn't care if Trump knows enough to answer their questions, or if he just lies to their faces, no that doesn't matter, just the fact that he fluffs their ego about their own importance by not doing his job to spend time chatting with them.
And it’s just conventional wisdom now that Joe Biden couldn’t do and wasn’t doing his job?!? When that stupid book doesn’t actually present any evidence to that effect? (Screaming with rage.) What a coincidence that we were the envy of every country on Earth as recently as January. 🤬🤬🤬
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c'mon
“They give us so much access to food!”
Shame!
Finish the thought...
"...and answered most of them with complete nonsense and unserious answers, leaving viewers bewildered and confused most of the time."
People who are deliberately avoiding Justice blame politics for everything. And use it to redirect the spotlight to their own narrative. Scared & complicit media help them. Trump's crimes are unprecedented and deserve the focus.
What dipshit wrote this.
Biden's ciscumspection was a feature, not a bug.
The problems with rampant fascism in the US is not limited to Trump voters. It's much bigger.
He doesn’t even know where he’s at unless it has to do with golf.
I don’t want to hear about the president every day.
That's A LOT of words for lying.
Did you vote for him? If so, was it because his corruption is okay because he does it out in the open?
All the work Biden did and it comes down to camera time as the comparison??
The USA is so screwed
Want him committed. You reporters gonna pass that along?
Silence can be golden.
They do not serve the American public
The media seems to completely disregard this point
SUPPORT PUBLIC NEWS
REPORTING THE TRUTH
AND BACKING IT UP .
Some of it is understandable with the scrutiny they’re under, but only some.
And then the press publicly praises them for it.
Pathetic.
Incredibly disgusting, but accurate.
His frequent talking to the media would've made him accessible if he actually answered questions truthfully, but he never does and so it doesn't count
Gawd you guys are dumb.🤷♀️
Fuck them. Let outlets like that die in darkness so democracy can live.
Scrutiny!
(Yes, I know, Godwin's law. I'll show myself out.)
The Trump regime isn't attempting to murder all Jews (yet), but they are trying to ramp up their ethnic cleansing against immigrants.
Yes, read DSM-5. It's all explained in there.
But that’s just me.
Trump: “You are a nasty, stupid head. Your farts smell. Isn’t he stupid everyone? Just a stupid person.”
Politico: MY GOD THE ACCESS
Worth noting most of the 'reporters' are Fox, Breitbart, and other far right 'media' outlets.
Trump is first and foremost a TV producer, and his crew and set mean a lot to him.