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So What’s the Bigger Fake? The News or Donald Trump’s 2024 Campaign?

Mike Weisser
3 min readFeb 19, 2023

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I can’t get over how the Fake News Media continues to give Trump a pass virtually every, single day. I don’t know if the FN Media ever did any serious investigative reportage on Trump, but they sure as Hell aren’t doing it now.

Here’s a guy who sends out a couple of stupid, senseless and totally incorrect statements every day on his home-grown social media network and it’s reported as news. As if anything Trump says has any degree of impact on current political events at all.

Not only does the FN Media continue to pretend that Trump’s verbal behavior is newsworthy but, if necessary, the FN Media will even invent stories about Trump which Trump can then use to make more out of himself than he deserves.

Back on November 15, Trump announced the beginning of his 2024 campaign to an audience at Mar-a-Lago who had to be kept in their seats because otherwise most of the crowd would have gotten up to leave.

A day doesn’t go by now without the FN Media carrying at least one story which mentions the Trump ‘campaign.’ But there is no campaign unless we have a new definition for what constitutes a political campaign.

Maybe I’m just old fashioned or out of touch, but I thought that political campaigns consisted of two things: raising money…

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Mike Weisser
Mike Weisser

Written by Mike Weisser

Former college professor, IT Vice-President, bone fide gun nut, https://www.teeteepress.net/

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