Donald Trump's handling of the media
The way US President Donald Trump deals with the media and their reporting on him is the subject of controversial debate around the world. He is certified to compete with the media reporting on him. Trump himself repeatedly discredited the coverage of him as fake news (pretended news).
Media used by Trump
Donald Trump speaks more than any other US president on the short message service Twitter . It is not uncommon for the almost everyday short messages that the American president broadcasts unfiltered to cause annoyance among his security and legal advisors.
In November 2016, the political magazine The New Republic called Trump the “first Twitter president” in a headline because of his high activity on Twitter and said: “Be concerned.” This headline also used Fox News in December 2016 and added that Trump was doing so get the opportunity to take revenge by tweet .
Trump has repeatedly blocked unpleasant commentators on his Twitter entries so that they can no longer access his tweets. The “Knight Institute” at Columbia University in New York sees this as a violation of the fundamental right to participate in public discourse. At the end of May 2018, a court in Manhattan ruled that Trump could not block users for political reasons because his Twitter account was a public forum. According to the court, a violation of this constitutes a restriction of the freedom of speech guaranteed in the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution , but the "muting" function is still a possible option.
Following a tweet made by Donald Trump on May 26, 2020, Twitter subjected a statement by the US President to a fact check for the first time , which found the claim to be misleading. Angry about this , he ordered by decree to end the protection of social networks such as Twitter and Facebook against criminal prosecution granted by Paragraph 230 (Section 230) of the Communications Decency Act (similar to the German provider privilege with regard to forum liability ) and to curtail the authority of the operators of those platforms, moderate content published by users.
Breitbart News Network
As early as November 2016, Spiegel Online reported on an initiative by Steve Bannon , who played a key role in the reporting of the American news and opinion website Breitbart News Network and later became Trump's chief strategist in the White House, that the forums on the associated website primarily allow relevant hate comments . According to Der Spiegel, Trump supporters were sworn in advance on the future president, who can spread xenophobia, LGBTQ hatred, misogyny and racism on the news portal unfiltered .
In February 2017, several prominent U.S. media outlets, including CNN , the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times , were denied access to White House press briefings while Breitbart News was granted access. Other media then boycotted the event.
When Bannon had fallen out with Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner as an advisor to Trump in June 2017 , Trump used the media to publicly announce: "They should clarify this or I will do it."
Individual cases
Attacks against individual journalists and the media
After his first TV debate as a presidential candidate, Trump wrote of TV host Megyn Kelly, "You can see that blood was coming out of her eyes, that blood was coming out of wherever she was."
In November 2015, Trump mimicked the disabled journalist Serge Kovaleski in a speech and tried to ridicule him. This was received worldwide.
On June 29, 2017, Trump denigrated the TV presenter Mika Brzezinski , who had sharply criticized him on a morning broadcast, via Twitter . Trump dubbed her as the "crazy Mika with the low IQ." She bled on her face a few months ago during a visit to his Mar-Lago golf club as a result of cosmetic surgery. Your co-moderators Joe Scarborough and husband, a former Republican congressman, called Trump "Psycho Joe". The tweets sparked a wave of protests not only on social media. Many called Trump's admission his worst tweet yet that he was a sexist. Even Republican senators spoke up. Nevertheless, on July 1, 2017, Trump tweeted further insults against the two.
On May 12, 2020, Trump indirectly accused Scarborough of murdering his former intern Lori Klausutis in Florida. Although forensic doctors and police have clearly come to the conclusion that the 28-year-old woman passed out and fell miserably due to an arrhythmia, Trump did not withdraw the allegation.
On July 2, 2017 Trump released a video clip, the chairman of where he (Trump) on the edge of a wrestling fight WWE , Vince McMahon attacked and repeatedly punches him in the face. McMahon, lying on the ground, has a CNN logo over his face.
Dispute over the number of participants at the inauguration
After Donald Trump was sworn in on January 20, 2017, it was reported in many media that the number of participants on site was lower than, for example, when Barack Obama was inaugurated for the first time . Trump and his spokesman Sean Spicer disagreed with this representation and accused the media of deliberately misrepresenting the number of participants. However, comparative images showed that the area in front of the Capitol was less full than in 2009.
Kellyanne Conway , an adviser to President Trump, defended the account on the grounds that there were " alternative facts " in support of Spicer's account.
"Last night in Sweden"
Speaking to supporters in Florida on February 18, 2017, Trump defended his controversial decree on entry bans and said: “You look at what's happening, we've got to keep our country safe. You look at what's happening in Germany, you look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this? "(German:" Do you see what happened? We have to protect our country! Do you see what is happening in Germany? Do you see what happened in Sweden last night? Sweden, who would have it for kept possible? ").
Sweden's former Foreign Minister Carl Bildt asked Trump: “Sweden? Terrorist attack? What did he smoke? " The Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet ironically asked: "Yes, what happened in Sweden?" And presented some reports from the previous night, such as a storm warning in northern Sweden. Trump's remarks caused many Twitter users to use the hashtag “LastNightinSweden” to spread ironic messages that covered all sorts of things, except a terrorist attack. Trump wrote on Twitter late on February 19, 2017 that his testimony was related to a TV show he saw on Fox News about refugees in Sweden .
covfefe
covfefe is a previously unknown sequence of characters that ends a message that US President Donald Trump broadcast on the night of May 31, 2017 (local time) via the short message service Twitter : “ Despite the constant negative press covfefe ” (German: "Despite the constant negative press covfefe"). The announcement, which ended abruptly without a final punctuation mark , provoked extensive reactions in social networks and generated worldwide media coverage.
While it is widely believed that Trump meant "press coverage" and made a mistake, he left the meaning of the string open. The message was deleted after about six hours. By then it had been shared over 100,000 times. A short time after the deletion, the president asked via Twitter who could find out the “true meaning” of the word. The former spokesman for the White House , Sean Spicer , explained later covfefe was not a typo been Trumps. A small group of people have knowledge of the true meaning of this string.
Many, including Hillary Clinton , used the string covfefe ironically or satirically. In the 2017 German Word of the Year vote , covfefe came in fourth. The jury justified its choice by stating that this “new media-supported information shortage” was the “symbol for the populist political style of these days”.
Mike Quigley introduced a law into Congress called the COVFEFE Act of 2017 that would also apply the Presidential Records Act to social media.
The expression has made it into the world of computer games: The game developers Paradox Development Studio named a star system in the space simulation Stellaris Covfefe .
Individual evidence
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- ↑ "Fake News": Trump mocks journalists and presents himself as a man of the people. In: focus.de. Retrieved June 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Trump's team desperate over his tweets. In: faz.net. Retrieved June 8, 2017 .
- ^ Trump Is America's First Twitter President. Be afraid. - New Republic. In: newrepublic.com. November 15, 2016, accessed June 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Trump the Twitter president: Social media gives him tweet revenge. In: foxnews.com. December 7, 2016, accessed June 26, 2017 .
- ↑ Trump and Twitter: US President should no longer block critics. In: heise.de. Retrieved June 8, 2017 .
- ↑ US President on Twitter: Trump must not block . In: Süddeutsche.de , May 23, 2018, accessed on May 24, 2018.
- ↑ DER SPIEGEL: Twitter tears up Trump tweet in first fact check - DER SPIEGEL - politics. Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
- ↑ tagesschau.de: Trump signs decree on social media. Retrieved May 28, 2020 .
- ^ Breitbart News: Donald Trump adviser Steve Bannon and his hate website. In: spiegel.de. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .
- ↑ US government excludes numerous media from press briefing. In: spiegel.de . Retrieved June 14, 2017.
- ↑ Hard times for Steve Bannon - dispute with Trump. In: sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Trump again clashes with journalists. In: zeit.de , August 26, 2015
- ↑ Donald Trump Says His Mocking of New York Times Reporter Was Misread. In: The New York Times. Retrieved November 27, 2015 .
- ↑ Trump calls critical moderator "crazy". In: FAZ.net
- ↑ Trump continues to insult journalists. In: FAZ.net
- ↑ How immune are US presidents? In zeit.de
- ↑ Trump tweets a whipping video against CNN. In: spiegel.de , July 2, 2017
- ↑ Lawmakers blast Trump's 'crude, false, and unpresidential' CNN tweet. In: washingtonpost.com , July 2, 2017
- ↑ Trump's spokesman calculates the audience for the press. In: welt.de. Retrieved June 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Trump adviser: "Our spokesman has alternative facts about it". In: sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved June 14, 2017 .
- ↑ 'Last Night in Sweden'? Trump's Remark Baffles a Nation. In: nytimes.com. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Trump invents incident: #LastNightInSweden. In: tagesschau.de. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .
- ^ After Trump speech: Sweden asks for an explanation from the USA. In: tagesschau.de. Retrieved June 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Puzzling word creation: Did Trump fall asleep while tweeting? In: Spiegel Online. Retrieved August 6, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Matt Flegenheimer: What's a 'Covfefe'? Trump Tweet Unites a Bewildered Nation. In: NYTimes.com. May 31, 2017. Retrieved August 6, 2017 .
- ↑ a b What does «Covfefe» mean? - Trump deletes unsuccessful tweet. In: stern.de , May 31, 2017.
- ↑ Spicer refuses to say Trump's 'covfefe' tweet was a typo. In: Politico . Retrieved May 31, 2017 .
- ↑ Clinton mercilessly pulls Trump's covfefe through the cocoa. In: Welt Online , accessed June 1, 2016.
- ↑ Timo Frasch: Word of the Year. Covfefe! In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 8, 2017.
- ↑ The Covfefe Act Has A Silly Name - But It Addresses A Real Quandary: The Two-Way: NPR. In: npr.org. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Easter eggs - Stellaris wiki