Day 93: The White House is its own propaganda machine

Poorly produced videos attempt to stir up dormant support for a flailing president.

Fox News is a de facto state-run media arm at this point and is virtually the only place Donald Trump goes to for on-camera interviews. The questions are softballs and his incoherent mishmosh answers are fawned over by their right wing commentators that blindly support Trump’s every word. The relationship is symbiotic: Trump has tweeted out support or recognition of Fox News five times in the past six days.

Somehow, Fox News’ propaganda is only overshadowed by the White House’s.

Look at these insane, overdone jingoistic videos that take legitimately good things (the freeing of Americans abroad, a commitment to American jobs) and immediately propagandize them by making Trump look like the greatest American in the history of the country. Set to cheesy music with ridiculous montages, they aren’t even the least bit subtle.

These are the kinds of victory laps that no president in American history has run after the most monumental of accomplishments. (For instance, there weren’t any White House-produced montages of Barack Obama celebrating the raid that killed Osama bin Laden set to Bruce Springsteen backing.)

Hell, some of Trump’s videos aren’t even accomplishments, they’re just announcements of plans.

Trump feels obligated to tell us every tiny thing that can even be couched close to an achievement because he knows he hasn’t done much in three months.

93 days in, 1369 to go

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