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“Be Weak & Die!” Seeking Clues Behind Trump’s Weekend Twitter Barrage
Mar 19, 2019, 9:49 AM
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/18/us/politics/trump-weekend-tweets.html
Just wondering what you guys think when you see that headline. What is the impression you get that Trump was saying? Because to me, it came across that he was being very aggressive toward a political foe, even wishing death on them. But I might be in the minority.
Here is the full quote:
“The losers all want what you have, don’t give it to them. Be strong & prosper, be weak & die!”
He was apparently talking to a Fox News executive about some suspensions this weekend.
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Re: “Be Weak & Die!” Seeking Clues Behind Trump’s Weekend Twitter Barrage
Mar 19, 2019, 9:52 AM
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I dont really care. I have two kids, sports, a job that is in the middle of a selling season and I also have a hankering to find an FJ40 to have for this summer.
I really couldn't careless what he says, as long as the economy is good, no major conflict and the checks and balances are in place....which they are, I am tuning all of this out. Just keep on making me money, that is really all I care about.
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I love this deflection.
Mar 19, 2019, 10:10 AM
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Defend the President constantly. When it's something that's hard to defend/justify it's I don't care.
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Re: I love this deflection.
Mar 19, 2019, 10:18 AM
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I will defend him as he is making me money and there are no major conflicts. That is a winner in my book. So yes, I will defend him on that, but when it comes to Twitter and what he says.....who cares.
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Re: I love this deflection.
Mar 19, 2019, 10:58 AM
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Also, once you learn that he is just trolling you social justice twitter outrage morons, the better off you will be and have time for more important things.
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Am I the only one who thinks the man with
Mar 19, 2019, 10:58 AM
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the most powerful job in the world shouldn't be considered a troll?
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Re: Am I the only one who thinks the man with
Mar 19, 2019, 11:04 AM
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Obama was, but much more subtle, especially when it came to race relations. He was just smarter in how he trolled.
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Re: Am I the only one who thinks the man with
Mar 19, 2019, 2:15 PM
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that was all in your head... HTH.
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*(but he's not just trolling)*
Mar 19, 2019, 11:14 AM
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It's clear he's broadcasting his true feelings. He talks the same way, whenever it's not scripted speech.
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71% of 'Muricans think the economy is doing well
Mar 19, 2019, 11:10 AM
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suck eggs.....
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Like Trump, you are quick to take/give full credit for the
Mar 19, 2019, 11:46 AM
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performance of the economy to the POTUS. When it tanks (and it's pretty obviously coming), you'll predictably deflect to some other reason....like Trump. Own when good, deflect when not.
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Here, I'll preemptively help:
Mar 19, 2019, 11:47 AM
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THE FEDS RAISED RATES! NOT FAIR!
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Stupid fed chair***
Mar 19, 2019, 11:48 AM
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Any President should get credit for how things are
Mar 19, 2019, 12:00 PM
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going in the country. If the economy were higher on my list of "what's important to me," he'd be more likely to get my vote.
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You do understand what the enormous spending deficit
Mar 19, 2019, 12:00 PM
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as a result of the tax cuts portends, don't you? Like...your guy will be DIRECTLY responsible for the coming inflation, potentially hyper-inflation. You follow that?
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Don't matter. Bengaline's crowd is banking on
Mar 19, 2019, 12:07 PM
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not being here in the next 10-20 years.
Burn it to the ground. As long as my retirement check doesn't change.
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Re: Like Trump, you are quick to take/give full credit for the
Mar 19, 2019, 1:14 PM
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What? Are you speaking english here?
Ok, so if the economy is good, who do you want me to pin it on? Your local legislator? The Fed Chair...an Admin from 4 years ago? Who do you want to take the credit.
If the economy tanks and he is in the chair, then we shall see what happens as he is squarely the one to take the blame.
Not sure what you are reaching for, but it isn't there. I have praised Obama on many occasions in this forum for the good that he had done for this Country.
Just because I like Trump and is Admin doesn't give you the right to dismiss everything that is said that is good with America at this time.
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No, I don't think so...
Mar 19, 2019, 9:58 AM
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He was stating the inverse of "be strong and prosper". If we become "weak", then we "die". In his opinion, of course.
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As for the Twitter "rampage"...
Mar 19, 2019, 10:00 AM
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It's nothing new. The President chooses to go on the internet and whine whenever someone says something a little bad about him. He's always done it.
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Trump twitters, Joungers get drunk....***
Mar 19, 2019, 11:11 AM
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Interestingly, a lot of responses seem to be assessing Trump
Mar 19, 2019, 1:07 PM
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which is fine...this being a discussion forum. My intent was to discuss the headline, which was in the subject of my post, and see if anyone else had the same take that I did.
My take is that the NYTs, in quoting only the second part of that Tweet and calling it a “Barrage”, implies that the President is attacking someone in that Tweet, when in fact, as you say, he was just offering the counterpoint to being strong and prospering for a news organization.
As always, I think these efforts are deliberate and obvious, but some of you may read the headline differently than I did.
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Speaking for myself only, I did misread your intent.
Mar 19, 2019, 1:34 PM
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I did not read your post as being critical of the headline, but of the President. Reading your OP after reading your reply, now I see what you were saying.
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It was using Trump's most aggressive language to grab attn
Mar 19, 2019, 3:37 PM
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Considering all that Trump covered and attacked in his 50 tweets, "barrage" seems very accurate as a description.
Not sure how you could have an issue with the headline and not the barrage of tweets by Trump. Or why you would think the headline is a bigger story than the President of the United States tweeting absurd things.
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Where did I discuss the relative concern of
Mar 19, 2019, 3:44 PM
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the agenda-driven headline to the frantic Presidential Tweeting?
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That's the impression you gave off
Mar 19, 2019, 3:58 PM
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at least to me. You seemed concerned more about what you perceived was an "agenda-driven" headline using Trump's language against him than you did the substance of the piece itself. But fair enough, let's only talk about the headline. Why didn't you like the use of "barrage?"
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Well as I said, the selection of quote coupled with “barrage”
Mar 19, 2019, 4:12 PM
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makes it sound like he was attacking someone with “stay weak and die”, which I believe to be intentional on the part of the NYT, because it is such an easy thing to NOT do. I don’t respect the current journalistic climate and I think it is especially damaging for our country that the Media have not only picked sides, but worse, sacrifice an objective relaying of the news in order to further their agenda. So I’m sensitive...perhaps excessively so...to those sorts of things. Which is why I wanted to see if anyone else saw the same.
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Ok, well, I hope the responses were helpful***
Mar 19, 2019, 4:17 PM
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The man is not well.
Mar 19, 2019, 10:20 AM
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This seems to support the idea that AIDS contracted from dirty pron stars can negatively affect the brain.
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"Sir, Festivus is once a year, not once a week"
Mar 19, 2019, 11:04 AM
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is something that an aide really needs to tell the guy. The airing of grievances is supposed to be sacred.
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Re: “Be Weak & Die!” Seeking Clues Behind Trump’s Weekend Twitter Barrage
Mar 22, 2019, 7:20 AM
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Most of the time, not always, there is a cryptic message in a Trump tweet. Once the skill is acquired to decode these tweets, you understand he’s signaling his base with everything from progress updates, status on issues, what to expect and what’s yet to come. Pretty much the stuff that the media won’t talk about. Makes his tweets look weird sometimes with grammar and misspelled words, but his message gets delivered.
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