The presidency is no longer just a \u2018bully pulpit\u2019. It\u2019s become part of the disinformation machine<\/p>\n
Donald Trump<\/a> won the White House not with money<\/a>, though he spent plenty of it, but by dominating the conversation<\/a>. He hasn\u2019t stopped campaigning. He uses attention to bolster his political power, and uses his office to make sure that everyone keeps watching.<\/p>\n He was barred from leading social media platforms<\/a> after the January 6 attack on the Capitol, but four years\u00a0later, their owners attended his inauguration. Many of his key hires appear picked for their media presence as well as their ideological bent and sycophancy. Tuesday\u2019s interminable address to Congress<\/a> was garnished with the kind of wild claims<\/a> or outright lies that he knows take off on social media. For him, posting online ultimatums to Hamas<\/a> and a disturbing AI-generated \u201cTrump Gaza\u201d video<\/a> is all part\u00a0of foreign policy. One of the most chilling, and telling, moments of last week\u2019s attack on\u00a0Volodymyr\u00a0Zelenskyy was Mr\u00a0Trump\u2019s remark: \u201cThis is going to be great television.\u201d<\/p>\n Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters<\/a> section, please click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The presidency is no longer just a \u2018bully pulpit\u2019. It\u2019s become part of the disinformation machine Donald Trump won the White House not with money, though he spent plenty of it, but by dominating the conversation. He hasn\u2019t stopped campaigning. He uses attention to bolster his political power, and uses his office to make sure … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}