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Why Fake News is the Only Thing Donald Trump is Right About
And he’s not entirely right about that either
Donald Trump’s presidency has been a rocky ride. The American people seem to wait with bated breath each time Trump makes a speech or sends a tweet. There’s no risk of them holding their breath for too long. Such has been the litany of almost daily remarks from Trump making you want to squirm. One thing he’s been unintentionally right about though is fake news.
The intention of this slogan is to make people question the validity of some news stories. Trump doesn’t question all news stories, only those that don’t agree with him. By doing so, he has convinced his own supporters that any story with a negative spin towards himself is false.
To brand a story as fake news, we can assume any news story he does agree with is true news. Fake news then is about Donald Trump disagreeing with a certain interpretation. This has undertones of an attempt to control the media and how they express opinions. Hardly in the spirit of free speech.
While Trump's slogan fake news is flagrantly narcissistic, we should question all news stories because each news story is an interpretation of an event.
