He's Moving Like The Fastest Animal on the Planet...
They keep trying to get out ahead of him, but it's futile.
I watched the events that unfolded yesterday with amazement.
Trump is literally DROWNING the Fake News Media in access and transparency, and they have no idea whatsoever how to effectively respond to that.
Because we don’t have a real press in this country - at least, not so far as the big money mainstream media goes.
What we have had instead for many decades now are propaganda outlets owned by oligarchs that have been cleverly disguised as ‘news media’.
What do I mean when I say Trump is **drowning** them in unprecedented access to the White House, to himself, as he sits there and answers questions, sometimes for hours.
Here’s a post I made on X.com the other day discussing this key Trump strategy for getting his message out while confounding the Fake News’ ability to spin, cleverly edit what he’s saying, and misdirect the public:
Trump's spent almost 2 hours today taking questions from reporters.
All unscripted.
After 4 years of Biden's staff carefully stage-managing everything, Trump is literally drowning these pricks with historical levels of access.
They don't know what to do.
The idea prior to this administration was to use limited access to sell narratives to the public.
"Trump won't take questions about x, y or z, so it appears he is trying to...." and then they play a 10 second sound bite that will often be edited or incomplete.
We got a ton of this shit during his first term.
Now? He will literally sit there for 2 hours and take their questions and rob them of their ability to frame the news in a way that allows them to edit his answers and sell bullshit narratives.
He's actually MAKING THE JOB OF SPINNING WHAT HE'S DOING far harder for them with this access.
And it's brilliant.
They can't cleverly edit SHIT because the country is invested in this and watching it unfold in real time.
THIS IS HOW YOU BEAT THE FAKE NEWS MACHINE TO DEATH: unlimited access and transparency.
To draw out that thought: Cleverly editing video of what Trump supposedly is saying/doing from the White House will only successfully work with a disengaged citizenry who only sees the brief edited soundbites on news programs.
By opening up the Oval Office to hours-long press conferences, which millions of the public are tuning in live to watch, as the President launches historical and groundbreaking initiatives, trade deals, Executive Orders, and visits with foreign leaders [and which are all being recorded in full and placed on media outlets like Rumble and YouTube], Trump has left no room for the Fake News to maneuver and follow their old tried and true out-of-context playbook.
When the public wasn’t paying attention and couldn’t tune in to these long press conferences where Trump was doing amazing things that keep them engaged and holding their attention, that gave the mainstream media the wiggle room to do clever edits, spin his statements out of context, and so on.
He’s not even GIVING them the option of doing that now.
As I’m writing this column right now on the morning of Tuesday, August 28, 2025, Trump is convening a Cabinet Meeting in the White House that is, of course, going to be televised live to the entire nation and the world. This is the SEVENTH Cabinet meeting in 7 months.
As someone who’s been following the political scene since the 1988 Bush/Dukakis race for the presidency, I can tell you this quite plainly: there is no precedent for this.
When Reagan, the Bushes, Clinton, Obama, Biden all held Cabinet meetings, cameras may have been allowed in very briefly, if at all, so some statements could be made, a few questions, then out of the room the media went, and the real business got conducted.
A Cabinet meeting was a hot button political scrum because during it and immediately afterwards, the mainstream media would race to find someone who would LEAK TO THEM the details of the meeting.
Talk about taking all the fun out of it for the Fake News!
He’s just…SHOWING EVERYBODY…live…ON TV, for cryin’ out loud!…what they’re doing.
Now Fake News Matrix reporters can’t invent fake anonymous sources or disguise some low level coffee fetcher as a ‘top administration official!’ to sell a story to the public as to what was ‘really’ discussed at the Cabinet meeting.
Not only does this prevent Fake News chicanery, Trump signing Executive Orders and convening Cabinet meetings to discuss issues the public deeply cares about keeps millions of Americans engaged in the daily news cycle.
I want to stress how unusual this all is, compared to the last 40 years of my watching the political news.
It’s Summer. Baseball is ongoing. Football is in the air. The beaches are warm. The vast majority of the public is TUNED OUT from political news at this time of year. Especially after an election year.
But by doing things like addressing the crime in DC and talking about doing in other places like Chicago what he’s done in DC, signing EO’s to ban cashless bail policies, Trump not only gets much of the public to pay attention to what’s going on up there in DC, he’s HOLDING their attention. By the day. Week after week.
This is important. Do not overlook the value of this.
One of the biggest reasons we ended up in the position we were in in the pre-Trump era was because of carefully cultivated citizen apathy. “I don’t pay attention to politics!’, etc.
That attitude was carefully created, managed and sustained over decades by a Matrix News Media that injected a message with the other mental poisons and illusions it was casting over the American people: “This is the way things are. You can’t change it. The game is rigged and you can’t do anything about it. Just be glad for what you got - and hope you get to keep it!”
But what is Trump clearly getting ready to do?
He’s getting ready to demonstrate that NO, this is NOT the way things have to be. That is a LIE.
After decades of the UniParty playing games pretending to try to ‘deal with the crime issues’ in our big cities, people are waking up to the fact it’s all rigged, it’s all fake, and corrupt people are literally sacrificing innocent Americans with deliberately fostered, nurtured and enabled crime waves.
Thousands and thousands of American citizens have been lost to increasingly out of control violent crime in many of our major cities in recent years, as the political class in those cities keep implementing INSANE criminal justice policies and - amazingly, since our American elections are all free and fair! - REELECTED over and over again despite the bodies piling up.
How do you clean up that kind of corruption?
Well, I think it would involve several things that the MAJORITY of the public would have to be on board with:
Most of the public would be agreeing with the proposition there is NO WAY these corrupticrats keep winning honest elections over and over.
Most of the public would be agreeing with the proposition that - for whatever debatable reason - the top political class in their city has been, and continues, to pursue public policy that is HARMFUL and deliberately places many people in DANGER.
Most of the public would be agreeing with the proposition that if the local authorities not only WILL NOT protect their own citizens from violent career criminals, but they are actively crossing land and sea to ENSURE the present corrupt criminal justice system remains exactly as they have carefully and deliberately crafted it, those local authorities SHOULD BE REPLACED.
Most of the public would agree with the proposition that people with vile hidden agendas have crept in among us, and have been crafting public policy - especially criminal justice policy - in several of America’s large urban cities to literally DESTABILIZE the city in order to champion increasingly draconian initiatives targeting not the CRIMINALS, but the ordinary citizens themselves as the ‘solution’ to the chaos.
Most of the public would assent to the proposition that if public safety is being deliberately undermined and sabotaged by their own elected officials in their city, for whatever reason, those officials are a real and present threat and they need to be removed from office and order must be restored and public safety achieved until such time as new elections - real ones this time - can be held to replace them.
I’ve been writing and saying for some time now: before Trump could move and do certain things, he needed a massive, overwhelming level of public support before he made the attempt.
A lot of people merely disagree about HOW MUCH public support he needs, how much should be considered ‘overwhelming’. ‘
If you thought Trump should have called in the troops, federalized them, federalized DC and rolled the tanks in back in November 2020 thru January 2021, then you haven’t thought any of this through. Not really.
He did the right thing in January 2021, even though it was very hard to watch.
As hard as it was for some people to hear this from me at the time, I was stating the obvious: If Trump had invoked the military like that following the 2020 election, that would have been THE END OF HIM AND MAGA.
Forever.
A great general does not move until everything is ready. He leaves nothing to chance. History is replete of battles lost, of wars where victory was in the grasp - almost! - when moving too early led to disaster.
Right now, the entire country is behind Trump in a way it manifestly was not in January of 2020. This allows Trump to do certain things now. Many people do not grasp the role public support plays in determining if it is time to do certain very radical things.
Many people think all you need to do in order to give an order is HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO GIVE IT.
This is not true. This is a confusion of thought that many people suffer from.
Let me give you an example.
If at his first inauguration on January 20, 2017, Trump had turned to the military guys who came and stood behind him for that ONE LINE OF HIS SPEECH, and pointed at Obama, the Clintons, the Bidens, the Bushes, and said “OK, arrest them!”, as the newly inaugurated Command in Chief, did Trump have the AUTHORITY to order such arrests?
Well, sure he did. So why didn’t he do it right then? The question kind of answers itself, does it not?
He didn’t do it right then because there would have been no way whatsoever he or his presidency would have survived such an act.
He certainly understood that, even if a lot of yahoos on social media don’t - or pretend they don’t.
So it’s like fingers scraping down a chalkboard, watching people wander around babbling “Why didn’t he do this stuff LONG AGO, in that first term? What, he suddenly grew a pair of balls or something?”
Well no. He didn’t just grow a big pair of balls. What kind of stupid thinking is that?
He’s got the prerequisite level of public support now. HE DIDN’T HAVE IT BEFORE. Now he does. It changes everything.
If you don’t understand that, or why it is important at this point, you’re probably never going to be able to grasp it.
Trump is moving so fast on so many different fronts - and not just domestically, either! - that his and America’s enemies, both foreign and domestic, are really struggling to figure out where he’s headed next so they can try to get out ahead of him and set ambushes and roadblocks.
But they’re failing to anticipate in time, over and over again.
And that’s a beautiful thing…
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Absolutely 💯% correct….each and every assessment. The Art of War at its finest! Thank you for your courage and sharing your gift of discernment. God has gifted so many for this time. Blessings to you.🙏
Just looking at the NG deployment strategy, a small deployment in LA to quell limited riots that ended up requiring and getting SCOTUS stamp of approval. A larger deployment in DC that has almost completely eliminated significant crime in a span of weeks. A deployment that was based on Constitutional authorization. Next up? Sounds like Chicago where people are begging for it, at least everyone not in city government. Brilliant....