Donald Trump stepped up his ongoing feud with CNN today, alleging that the network blocked an ad buy by Trump’s re-election campaign, allegedly “censoring the message to the American people that ‘President Trump’s plan is working,’ the campaign said in a press release.” Hollywood Reporter:
The 30-second ad, called "Let President Trump Do His Job," features a broadside against the media, and accuses journalists of attacking the president. "The president's enemies don't want him to succeed," the ad says, flashing on the screen the faces of many prominent journalists, including CNN anchors Don Lemon and Anderson Cooper.
It was this "enemies" graphic that CNN took issue with, though a network source said the ad was not rejected, as the campaign alleged. A CNN spokeswoman, in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, said: "CNN would accept the ad if the images of reporters and anchors are removed. Anchors and reporters don’t have 'enemies,' as the ad states, but they do hold those in power accountable across the political spectrum and aggressively challenge false and misleading statements and investigate wrong-doing."
The re-election campaign first accused CNN of censorship in early May for rejecting an ad called "First 100 Days" that also included an attack on the media as "fake news." CNN, at the time, said it requested that the "fake news" designation be removed from the ad, as "the mainstream media is not fake news, and therefore the ad is false."
What Donald Trump is doing is plain and simple: He is trying to gaslight the American people that everything is going along swimmingly and that his “plan is working.” That has been the not so hidden ruse all along, with his “Real News” vlogs on Facebook, and the phony statistics he keeps quoting about the “million jobs” he created, his refurbishing of the nuclear arsenal, which is also non existent except in his dreams — and this CNN ad was going to be more of the same. Trump has pushed non stop the narrative that the press is the “opposition party” and that their stories about him which he finds less than flattering, are “fake news.”
As CNN’s Jim Acosta so accurately pointed out yesterday during the faux press conference where no one from the press could ask a question, the Purveyor In Chief of fake news is none other than Donald Trump himself.
Donald Trump is a propagandist and poseur extraordinaire. His family and minions are accessories to the fraud he is attempting to perpetrate on this nation — a nation which will be “great again” by default the nanosecond that Trump is deposed and discarded.