The president is attempting to keep calm in front of the cameras, but behind the scenes he’s fuming.
Donald Trump is reportedly getting more and more fed up with his administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein drama that has consumed headlines for weeks.
Trump is frustrated that the scandal has overshadowed his agenda and dominated the news, two people familiar with his thinking told The Washington Post in a Sunday report.
Nearly a dozen sources close to the situation spoke to the Post about the issue, painting a picture of an administration adrift, lacking a clear strategy and blindsided by the intensity of the backlash—particularly from Trump’s own base. Many officials had reportedly hoped that Americans would move on from the unreleased Epstein files, underestimating the sustained outrage.
“two people familiar with his thinking”. What a farce. Is there any fact based news anymore?
Nobody reads facts anymore. Nobody even opens an article anymore, people skim headlines because we long-since gave up expecting informative news programming.
I am well-versed in science and technology, but never read mainstream news stories about developments or discoveries because they’re complete dogshit. I read an actual news story and my eye twitches and I want to hurl myself off a bridge. I have to de-program friends and acquaintances who are so tuned out of science developments that literally everyone I know believes we’ve officially discovered life on Mars, contacted aliens, and that there are ancient ruins and pyramids in antarctica, among hosts of other batshit nonsense that spreads from MSNBC and FOX headlines.
So if it’s that bad about science, the thing I know something about… what about the things I don’t know something about? I have to assume they’re just as bad about politics, economics, social issues and even basic news reporting on current events.
This is worse than people believing wrong trivia facts; when people aren’t sure what to believe about the world, they start doubting actual science or news and that’s how we end up with millions of unnecessary deaths from pandemics or nazis being elected to the highest offices.
Well said.
And I didn’t even get into the “mermaids” thing that I have nearly lost friendships over.
When Kellyanne Conway said, “alternate facts” you had to know this was going to be a dark ride.
We can go back further.
When Reagan’s economic policies were described as “trickle down economics” and they didn’t get laughed off the political stage and like, cast into the sea, we should have predicted where this was heading. And some smart people did, but nobody listened.