Trump Tweets Fox News Clips Directly in a Symbiosis of Stupid

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Trump Tweets Fox News Clips Directly as the Symbiosis of Stupid Reaches a Climax

A democratic republic cannot function when the Executive Branch is stuck in the infotainment vortex.




he Symbiosis of Stupid between Donald Trump, American president, and the Fox News Channel has come to define our era in a way that rivals The Death of Shame. Now that pretty much every organization the president has ever run is under investigation—from the already shuttered Trump Foundation and Trump University, to the Trump campaign, the Trump inaugural committee, the Trump transition, and the Trump Organization—he has begun to sink deeper and deeper into the infotainment vortex. He has correctly identified that maintaining his grip on political power may be the best way to keep himself out of the slammer, as a sitting president cannot, according to current Justice Department doctrine, be indicted.

He has also correctly ascertained that part of his strategy for maintaining that power must be to maximize the diameter of The Bubble. The president must rope as many people as possible into the void of Fox News and talk radio, where he is one of the great presidents ever—many people are saying the best, except maybe Abraham Lincoln—and all opposition to him is based in pretty grievances from Liberal Snowflakes in The Fake News Media. He has, for years now, tuned into cable news for between four and eight hours a day. It is his primary source for information. More recently, he has taken to echo-tweeting whatever they say on Fox & Friends or Hannity, spreading The Gospel According to Meatheads to his nearly 60 million followers on the Tweet Machine.

But over the last week, he has gone to another level in his efforts to draw unsuspecting travelers closer to The Bubble's event horizon. The President of the United States has begun directly tweeting video clips from his favorite TV channel—11 clips in four days, to be exact. And it all kicked off on Saturday, as it always had to, with a segment from the Fox Business program hosted by Lou Dobbs, the fascist Benjamin Button.



https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26881469/trump-tweet-fox-news-clips-directly/

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Remember when these folks over at FOX News cast themselves as Constitutional Conservatives while lodging occasionally-justified complaints about Barack Obama's expansion of executive power? Now the question of whether Trump's move to declare a phony national emergency to seize funds not appropriated by Congress to build his Big, Beautiful Wall is constitutional is entirely moot.