It turns out that President Donald Trump may not have thought through all the consequences before he banned some of his most hated news outlets from the White House.

After Trump declared CNN, MS NOW, and Politico “fake news” and exiled them from the White House grounds on Friday, the other networks that make up the White House press pool—including ABC, CBS, NBC, and even Fox News—agreed to boycott their pool duties on Monday in solidarity with the banned outlets.


Lol, will it be a TACO Tuesday?

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        People always come up to me, with tears in their eyes, and they say, ‘Sir, nobody has smaller, more beautiful hands than you.’ And it’s true! They are magnificent, perfectly proportioned, truly world-class hands - the fake news likes to exaggerate, but everybody knows my fingers are absolute perfection! And you know, when you’re a star, they just let you do it. You can do anything. You can grab ’em by the pussy with these little hands - and let me tell you, nobody grabs better than me, okay? Nobody!

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    President Turdbrain does a turdbrain thing because he is a turdbrain

    The only ones surprised by this are other turdbrains

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      It is a global absurdity that the two people who have actually tried so far were amongst the dumbest of all humans ever to exist

      Thats because they were a political setup allowed to get close during an election year. They frothed his base into a rabid fury. Notice how two happened back to back before the election and then radio silence for two years?

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      You’re smart enough to do it, you don’t need a degree in rocket science.

      Buy a plane ticket, get to work! Eight billion people are desperate for your strong leadership.

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    It is called the Oval Office, and it should be treated with Decorum, Respect, and Dignity, not defiled by Third Rate Clowns

    Well, what the fuck is he doing there, in that case?!

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      The president’s voice could be heard faintly. But his words were inaudible over the whir of a helicopter parked nearby.

      “There’s no microphone because the pool cameras aren’t there,” explained Bianca de la Garza, who was covering the event for the Trump-friendly outlet Newsmax.

      The anchor said this was maybe “one example” of the president’s attack on the media “backfiring just a little bit.”

      Oh they tried

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    and even Fox News

    WHAT!?

    Aidan McLaughlin, the Washington correspondent for Vanity Fair, suggested on social media that, at the rate things are going, a lawsuit may not even have been necessary.

    “He’s gonna lift the ban by the end of the week,” he predicted.

    Yeah, this guy doesn’t work that way. That’s too rational of a thought process.

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      Fox News knows the long con. You start banning outlets that don’t say nice things they get booted when dems take control.

      Or even if they say things that don’t slobber Trump enough.

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      With the announcement of Trump TV, this ban was just a cover to legitimize state run media.

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    I hate Fox as much as anyone with a functioning brain, but saying, “even Fox News…” isn’t necessary. This isn’t the first time he’s gone after journalists like this, and Fox joined the other members of the press pool in their protest last time. They understand as much as anyone else that if he can ban 1 journalist/network, he can ban any journalist/network. And it’s not like they haven’t found themselves the target of his ire in the past.