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Emphasizing that the practice was just more evidence of journalists’ bias against him, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump stated Thursday that he was sick and tired of the mainstream media always attempting to place his words into some kind of context.


edit: as pointed out in a comment by /u/magic_lobster_party who paid more attention to the page than I did, this is actually from 2016 and was just recently resurfaced to me while I was browsing the site (but it is, unfortunately, still relevant)

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[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The really sad part is that this sounds entirely plausible... I didn't even realize it was an Onion article until it said Trump had used the phrase "objective reality" which I'm sure is a phrase he wouldn't even understand much less use in a sentence lol

[–] Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 week ago

woke media lies bigly

[–] d00ery@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

"Alternative facts" was a phrase used by U.S. Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway during a Meet the Press interview on January 22, 2017, in which she defended White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's false statement about the attendance numbers at Donald Trump's first inauguration as President of the United States. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_facts

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s 9 years old, and it’s still just as relevant.

[–] MHLoppy@fedia.io 6 points 1 week ago

Hah, didn't even notice that it was just an old one re-pushed to their frontpage like 'No Way to Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens

[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think he probably does, but I doubt he uses a word as big as “context”.

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago

One too many syllables.