Trump Trumps MSM at Their Own Game, 3163

Good evening, I’m still reporting on the coup.
The economic news from Thursday, July 30 was about as bad as it gets, or in fact worse than it has ever been – a 33 percent drop in the second quarter.
Because the president always gets blamed for bad economic news – unless of course that president’s name happened to be Barrack Obama, and in his case the mainstream media turned what was the worst recovery from a recession in history into a great economy – but President Trump is not Obama and the media is going to stick him with bad economic news every time it can.
So the numbers on Thursday were horrible and the MSM was heating up the barbecues to roast Trump.
Then out of the blue Trump tweeted that maybe the election should be delayed. The mainstream media, which all operates like lemmings, all ran from their barbecues and spent the rest of the day talking about how horrible it would be to delay the election.
Economic news doesn’t have a long shelf life – half a day only it its refrigerated and that’s if it’s really terrible. The shelf life is less if it isn’t so awful, and the amazing numbers that the Trump economy was racking up prior to the coronavirus hardly even made it to the shelf. The mainstream media didn't want to talk about it, except when they tried to give credit to Obama.
But Trump foxed them again. Friday morning he didn’t retract his statement, but said that nobody wanted the Election Day on Nov. 3 more than he did. He said what he didn’t want was an election where the winner wasn’t known for days, weeks, months or with litigation years. He talked about the huge fraud possibilities of mail-in voting and made it clear he wasn’t talking about absentee voting, which does have safeguards. It was a masterful performance.
[insert Trlump]
So the MSM spent the day running around like the sky was falling and, at the end of the day, the terrible economic news was buried under a huge pile of more timely news.
In other words, Trump did it again. The tweet seemed weird when he sent it out because you know Trump is confident and doesn’t want anything to delay the election. But Trump is a master politician and a master of media. He plays with the MSM like a cat plays with a mouse, and like a cat with a mouse there is never any doubt who is going to win in the end.
I’m still reporting from just outside the citadel of American freedom. Good day.