The (twice) daily fluff....Trump's "propaganda documents"

[Tanuki]

"It needs to be more fucking positive!" Not The Onion.. you can't make this stuff up...

https://news.vice.com/story/trump-folder-positive-news-white-house

"Twice a day since the beginning of the Trump administration, a special folder is prepared for the president. The first document is prepared around 9:30 a.m. and the follow-up around 4:30 p.m. Former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and former Press Secretary Sean Spicer both wanted the privilege of delivering the 20- to 25-page packet to President Trump personally, White House sources say.

These sensitive papers, described to VICE News by three current and former White House officials, are not top-secret intelligence or updates on legislative initiatives. Instead, the folders are filled with screenshots of positive cable news chyrons (those lower-third headlines and crawls), admiring tweets, transcripts of fawning TV interviews, praise-filled news stories, and sometimes just pictures of Trump on TV looking powerful.

One White House official said the only feedback the White House communications shop, which prepares the folder, has ever gotten in all these months is: “It needs to be more fucking positive.” That’s why some in the White House ruefully refer to the packet as “the Propaganda Document.”

The process of assembling the folder begins at the Republican National Committee’s “War Room” which has expanded from 4 to 10 people since winning the White House. A War Room — both parties have one regardless of who’s in the White House — is often tasked with monitoring local and national news, cable television, social media, digital media, and print media to see how the party, its candidates or their opponents are being perceived.
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But the production of a folder with just positive news — and the use of the RNC to help do so — seemed abnormal to former White House officials. “If we had prepared such a digest for Obama, he would have roared with laughter,” said David Axelrod, the senior adviser to Barack Obama during his first two years in the White House. “His was a reality-based presidency.”
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[underpants]

1. Obama had "the purple folder" with letters from actual people

I think he got it daily for light reading around dinner time.

[leftstreet]

2. And then he goes and watches the news and shits himself

How bizarre

No matter what they stuff in the report, it won't matter

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. He even shits himself playing golf.

[Girard442]

3. I'm thinking we all died back in November and we are now in Hell.

Is there any other logical explanation?

[salin]

4. I just read this - and was coming to see if it was posted here. Thanks.

Shows how far into farce we have moved. Our tax payer dollars put to work - coddling a weak, insipid, moron - who is famous for not reading more than half a page of bullet points in serious briefings - but reads 20-25 "pages" of propaganda about himself - 2 a day - daily.

[dalton99a]

8. The shit everyone has to put up with

It's goddamn unbelievable

[Thomas Hurt]

5. Managing the brand of an autocratic fuckwad is hard work...

standards must high, the bullshit deep, the lies just so...

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. "Dance for me!" cried the King. nt

[japple]

9. The twice daily tRUMP dump, AKA the BS folder. This is disgusting.

How do we have a US President that is such a wuss?