Donald Trump and his war
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Trump is waging a war “against the media, but a war he has no interest in ending,” says researcher Alexis Pichard a few days before the US presidential election.

Since his election, he has been obsessed by the novel (“Trump and the media, the illusion of a war”) of his presidency, “the one that will be forever recorded in the history books, which he wishes in his image, all in grandeur”.

In order to ensure the dissemination of this story, this preciser launched a war on the media. However, Trump has no interest in stopping it because it allowed him to build his image as a businessman and then as president.

Donald Trump and his story

He is someone who has a taste for storytelling and is very narcissistic. He got into real estate in the 1970s and has built up a story of a “self-made-man”, a self-taught man to whom everything succeeds because he is smarter than the others, because he is stronger. And he has always denied the fact that he was largely helped by his father. He gained a lot of visibility thanks to the New York Times, which took an interest in him around 1975, dedicating some very laudatory portraits to him.

For Trump, it was blessed bread because it was free publicity and he is the kind of person who doesn’t pay for any publicity.

This president and his character.

When he doesn’t like the articles, he doesn’t hesitate to let it be known or even to sue. There are elements of his virility, of his masculinity, which he does not like to be touched. He doesn’t care if you touch his family or him.

His wealth and his bankruptcy have been shaping moments in his history. In the early 1990s, he went bankrupt and his marriage to Ivana Trump fell apart. He will again use the media and especially the most popular fiction of the time, sitcoms, to rebuild himself.

Was Fox News involved in building the Trump myth?

She participated in its credibility, notably in the column of “Fox & Friends” which is a successful morning edition. He was interviewed by a trio of very pro-Trump animators. They allowed him to build his program around Hispanic immigration because Fox News realized that it was something that galvanized his voters.

His candidacy for the presidential elections

The idea that he will not be elected, all commentators say so. When he is in Barack Obama’s office just after his election, he looks lost because he was only thinking of spreading chaos but not of winning. He only ran for financial gain.

He saw that when he attacked the media, Americans liked it, so he attacked the institutions, the untouchables. The polls never went down; on the contrary, they jumped up and down with his insulting words.

Fascination between the media and Trump

This makes for a great audience because he has kept in mind how reality TV works and that sense of entertainment, anger and buzz to brave the taboos he hates.

Donald Trump’s trap

The media understands this but takes advantage of it, which is why they remain in this “profit zone”. The boss of NBC said that ratings have never been as good as they are today. It’s an incentive to comment on everything Trump does. However, they noticed that they had given Donald too much space to express himself, which gave him too much power.

Mr. Donald’s strategies

They consider that the media are not private but belong to the state, whose only mission is to peddle his story, which he also posts on Twitter. Even if these are often false assertions, people believe them thanks to the relays of major media such as Fox News. They are in a circuit of self-references that legitimize each other. But as soon as Fox News will deal from a neutral angle in relation to the Democrats, it is the bomb of insults from Donald.

As for the progressive media, Trumps calls them the enemies of the people. In the country’s moments, he will once again brave the taboos in order to reinvigorate the support of his voters.

What does he blame the progressive media for?

They are unpatriotic, because they never support the president’s actions and seek to harm him by broadcasting fake news in order to approach his presidency. He sees in the media a desire for anarchy because they attack the presidential institution.

How did the media react?

It has revived investigative journalism. The problem is that since business is almost daily, these long articles are fading away.

These media have thrived on the image of the rebellion because they have put forward this side “We are the opposition, so subscribe”.

Donald Trump’s Fake News

What he said about the antifa as a terrorist organization only served to frighten and anger his electorate, while the antifa are less numerous than the right-wing paramilitary militias.

The Fake News that struck me the most is the fact that it is in denial of its proximity to the paramilitary militias or QAnon, which is a conspiracy movement of the extreme right that is against the democrats.

In my opinion, those are dangerous fake news that are a form of call for violence. Like the time when he said that the postal vote would be the cause of massive fraud, it pushes his electorate to be on their guard and this could even trigger a civil war (there have been shootings).

How does Donald Trump manage to break down reality?

For me, these are more practices that we see in totalitarian regimes, in dictatorships, because this construction of a propaganda narrative is flawless and to the glory of a president.

He does this via Twitter, his spokespersons but also his very active followers on the internet.

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