{"id":2378992,"date":"2024-12-11T15:13:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T20:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-trumps-loyalists-edition\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T15:16:03","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T20:16:03","slug":"how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-trumps-loyalists-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-trumps-loyalists-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Media Are Lying Right Now: Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Loyalists&#8217; Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-the-media-are-lying-right-now-trumps-loyalists-edition%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2378992&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The text discusses how the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-real-clear-politics-say-they-never-called-pennsylvania\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Real Clear Politics -- SAY THEY NEVER CALLED PENNSYLVANIA\">news media<\/a> portrays President Donald Trump, \u200carguing that much of the coverage is not about outright lies but rather a shift\u2063 in how they interpret political \u2062actions. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">media ofen\u200d redefines normal governmental behavior<\/a> as alarming, notably in regards to \u2063Trump\u2019s appointments\u200c of loyalists to his administration. This reinforces a narrative that trump\u2019s actions represent a departure from democratic ideals, implying that he prioritizes his own interests over those of\u200c the American\u2062 people. The analysis \u200dhighlights a critical view of media practices surrounding Trump\u2019s presidency.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>So much of what the news media do as it relates to Trump isn&rsquo;t to explicitly lie (though <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/20\/heres-how-the-media-are-lying-right-now-nyts-heartbroken-black-women-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">they do that plenty<\/a>) but to abandon previously accepted understandings about the way our government and politics work. They then adopt new concepts and insist that the largely normal, mundane thing Trump does is scary or, at minimum, cause for concern.<\/p>\n<p>Two columns in The New York Times this week serve to reinforce the mind-numbing narrative that President-elect Donald Trump plans to fill his administration with unchecked &ldquo;loyalists,&rdquo; the implication being that Trump intends to function purely based on selfish interests rather than govern on behalf of Americans. This is a perfect example of the media asserting that something unremarkable is actually a fearsome veer from &ldquo;democracy.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Under the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Edsall\/status\/1866854214854443428\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headline<\/a> &ldquo;Democrats Don&rsquo;t Have a Shortcut Out of the Wilderness,&rdquo; Times columnist Thomas Edsall pretended he was about to write on the rudderless party just trounced in an election due to unpopular policies. But nah, it was only a pretext for him to quote a bunch of Democrat academics to repeat how dangerous Trump is. Regarding Trump&rsquo;s promise to remove ineffectual leadership in the U.S. military, which has seen recruitment <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/12\/06\/the-military-recruitment-crisis-is-a-reflection-of-changing-american-values\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">plummet<\/a> in recent years, Edsall quoted a professor to say that such restructuring would be &ldquo;just an excuse to purge officials who might be expected to be less loyal to Trump.&rdquo; The professor anticipated that Trump will &ldquo;engage in selective punishments and purges on a scale we really have not seen before.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The same day the Times published Edsall&rsquo;s column, it published a similar one by Jamelle Bouie, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/12\/11\/opinion\/trump-republican-party-cabinet.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headlined<\/a> &ldquo;A Political Reckoning Will Come for Trump, Too.&rdquo; What Trump wants in his administration, wrote Bouie, &ldquo;are deputies and subordinates who will show a special and specific loyalty to him, above and beyond everything else.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The originality oozes from every page.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing alarming about a president who expects loyalty from the people he selects to implement his agenda, the very thing that voters chose him to do in a process otherwise known as &ldquo;a democratic election.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>A president filling his cabinet with reliable individuals who won&rsquo;t take it upon themselves to undermine the agenda or thwart attempts to execute it is how any effective organization works. When interviewing for a job, a potential employee wouldn&rsquo;t make himself more attractive by declaring himself independent from the company&rsquo;s mission. He would be the first one ruled out for the position.<\/p>\n<p>When they bemoan the concept of &ldquo;loyalists,&rdquo; they&rsquo;re bemoaning someone who will do as he&rsquo;s told because that person understands and has enthusiasm for what&rsquo;s expected of him. The problem for Bouie and Edsall is that they don&rsquo;t agree with the Trump agenda. And what do you know &mdash;&nbsp;that&rsquo;s why they won&rsquo;t be asked to work on its behalf! That goes for anyone else who shares their view.<\/p>\n<p>This lame and tired narrative also suggests that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-media-run-see-no-candidate-hear-no-candidate-campaign\/\" title=\"The Media Run &#039;See No Candidate, Hear No Candidate&#039; Campaign\">media don&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t understand how American government works, though, again, it&rsquo;s more likely they have simply abandoned their faith in it because a new party with a different governing vision is in power.<\/p>\n<p>The whole point of this system is that no one person or branch of government holds all the power to do everything, which means a branch frequently either has to work with the others or else win the legal argument that it does in fact hold exclusive authority on a given policy issue. That usually plays out with the presidency asserting itself, only for an opposing party &mdash;&nbsp;a state, a political organization, a private citizen, etc. &mdash;&nbsp;to attempt to block it in court. Opposition is supposed to come from the outside. The media would rather it come from within.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, it would also be my preference that a Democrat administration be sabotaged by its own members and officials, but they seem to have their house in order so it tends to not happen that way.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is right to fill out his administration with &ldquo;loyalists.&rdquo; That&rsquo;s how the executive part of the federal government is supposed to work. The media know that. They just want the incoming executive to fail.<\/p>\n<hr><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The media often distorts normal actions of Trump, framing them as alarming<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":2378993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/CNN-1.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7380,15789,4188,5894,3634],"class_list":["post-2378992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-misinformation","tag-loyalty","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/CNN-1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2378992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2378996,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378992\/revisions\/2378996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2378993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2378992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2378992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2378992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}