Donald Trump has a love/hate relationship with the media. On the one hand, he needs the media to cover him because he’s a preening narcissist who demands to be noticed. On the other hand, he’s a thin-skinned, whiny baby who cannot stand to be criticized. What to do? How does one manage such a monumental dichotomy?
If you’re Trump and the Republicans, you put a survey online and then try to raise money off it.
They call it the “Mainstream Media Accountability Poll,” and here’s a few of the questions to be found on it:
Trump has a survey on his website about media bias. It would TERRIBLE if we all took it to balance out the results!https://t.co/KNkZXy1QrC pic.twitter.com/SD5dgA7po2
— ?low voter turnout? (@JordanUhl) February 17, 2017
Fun poll https://t.co/utQlgZsXzy pic.twitter.com/piv4Sw63LM
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) February 16, 2017
From Trump's new media survey. In full here: https://t.co/nROGfTQshq pic.twitter.com/HtaSdcgmqu
— Jeff Elder (@JeffElder) February 17, 2017
oh, boy – RNC fundraising!https://t.co/YKm0DLblX1
@SallySmith7920 pic.twitter.com/m0qUBfZeyp— दिनेश कुलकर्णी (@TurgidsonBuck) February 17, 2017
this presidential poll isn't weird or alarming at all
you can also donate? to the fight? against the media? https://t.co/zNzV3O2P82 pic.twitter.com/5uIkK4IbZB— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) February 17, 2017
The President of the United States has an online poll on the press’s coverage of him. It is deranged. Take it. https://t.co/5RQNFx5hew
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) February 16, 2017
While there’s certainly nothing wrong with a survey asking voters what they think about the media, it’s interesting to note just how biased the questions themselves are. And then when you get to the end of the poll, they have to ask you for a donation. They also want an email address and name, but you can make those up, just like I did when I completed this laughable exercise in push polling.
As we discovered in Thursday’s epic press conference, Trump cannot live without the constant attention of the media, but he also wishes the press would report the news exactly the way he wants. Most of all, he’s terrified that we’ll discover all of his darkest secrets (does Peegate ring a bell?) and tell the entire world. And in time, we will. So sleep tight while you can, Donnie.
h/t Mediaite
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