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Media flail as their anti-Trump narratives
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Posted By: Mercedes44, 1/10/2025 6:29:08 AM

We once had Teflon John, as in Gotti. Then we had Teflon Ron, as in Reagan. Now make way for Teflon Don, as in Trump. Pity the Democrats and their legacy media mouthpieces, who just can’t seem to find any attack line that sticks to the 45th and soon-to-be 47th president. Practice makes perfect, the old saying goes. But that doesn’t apply to today’s Dems, who have been smearing Trump for the better part of a decade without dragging him down. They can’t seem to find anything Americans — outside of those who still trust The New York Times and CNN — see as truly impactful or worth their outrage.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: 4Liberty2020 1/10/2025 7:05:47 AM (No. 1870467)
Teflon Don sounds good to me.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: jeffkinnh 1/10/2025 7:32:31 AM (No. 1870485)
It's great to see the media ever more desperately strike out and then sit in their roundtables bemoaning how the public just can't see how evil Trump is and how put upon they, the media, feel. The hilarious thing is that they are doing it to themselves. Trump is to the point of mostly ignoring them. But their own lies are piled up like garbage in a landfill. They stink and no one wants anything to do with them. Their viewership/readership is in freefall, their salaries are being cut or they are being let go. Some are resigning, to do what in a shrinking bubble is uncertain? And yet they persist, in the face of the fact that their lies are exposed and their accusations are absurd. Do these frantic, spittle spraying idiots think they are presenting images of a trustworthy news source? Can't they realize we see them as obsessed, wild eyed fanatics that are unhinged? These are people who, if you ran across them on the street, you would give a wide berth to, afraid they might attack you.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: mobyclik 1/10/2025 7:37:11 AM (No. 1870486)
There are those that thought the so-called 'media' would end their continuous assaults against Trump because of his mandate election. I can only say: ''What in hell were you thinking?'' As we've already seen since the election, the media has doubled-down on their attacks. ANYTHING Trump says or does will bring the the most ridiculous responses from those morons. Just hang tight, ignore them and be thankful Trump won. And laugh at the media.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: privateer 1/10/2025 7:58:49 AM (No. 1870495)
Then there was the slipperiest of all, Black Teflon Obummer. The Taupe Dope of Faux Hope.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Attila DiMedici 1/10/2025 8:30:50 AM (No. 1870509)
The main reason none of what they try to smear Trump with sticks is because it is blatantly obvious that most of the things they attack him with are manufactured. They manufacture damning stories about Trump that no one cares about while ignoring stories people are genuinely interested in. They had no interest in the Jeffrey Epstein story until they thought they could smear Trump with it. As soon as they realized that it would not damage Trump (because he stopped having anything to do with Epstein as soon as he found out that he was a sexual predator), they dropped the story, even though the American people wanted to know more. They did this in such a way that it soon became obvious that the only news they were interested in was that which advanced their political agenda.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Maggie2u 1/10/2025 9:41:32 AM (No. 1870563)
The democrats don't even realize what they are doing. That Americans would rather have a 'convicted felon' as President than Kamala Harris or for that matter any GDdemonrat.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: billa57 1/10/2025 12:01:21 PM (No. 1870683)
They have exhausted their credibility. Now they are seen as the liars they have been all this time. Good riddance.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: FLCracker 1/10/2025 12:11:24 PM (No. 1870691)
FTA: "The left would love nothing better, in the days leading up to his second inauguration, than to repeat over and over again that Trump is the first convicted felon to serve as president. But just like his two (two!) show-trial impeachments, most Americans won’t care. Why? " Because we know the charges were "trumped-up", literally and figuratively. The law was manipulated to persecute (I chose the word I mean) one individual man, appropriately named "Trump." Does anyone really believe that a man who has won, lost and won, again and again, millions of dollars, is going to risk a felony charge over $130,000?
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