Thursday, March 9, 2017

Richard Nixon’s Authoritarian Loathing of the Media Lives On in Donald Trump

http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/02/26/richard-nixons-authoritarian-loathing-media-lives-donald-trump
"Addressing the media and the nation at-large Monday morning, President Donald Trump explained the complications behind his plan to “repeal and replace Obamacare” by declaring a shocking statement, “Nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated.” If this were a sitcom in the hey-day of family-friendly television, President Trump’s statement on healthcare would be followed by a motherly figure saying, “oh, you!” as Trump raised his hands in the air in a devil-may-care expression. But this is the real world. And the president of the United States just revealed that he had no idea the scope and breadth of the healthcare debate, nor the mechanics of instituting a nationwide healthcare plan. Because the truth is that when President Trump says, “nobody knew,” he is really saying, “I had no idea"."