Trump Says 'Senate Rules,' Hysterical Left Hears 'Constitution'
The Left can't even be trusted to hear what the President says.
5.2.2017
Recently, President Donald Trump was interviewed by Fox News' Martha MacCallum and discussed his "First Hundred Days in Office." The leftwing media heard only what it wanted to hear, which is that Trump wants to dump the U.S. Constitution.
The transcript below has a part of Trump's exchange with MacCallum:
TRUMP: I understand what has to be done, I get things done I've always been a closer. We don't have a lot of closers in politics and I understand why. It's a very rough system, it's an archaic system. You look at the rules of the Senate, even the rules of the House, but the rule of the Senate and some of the things you have to go through, it's really a bad thing for the country in my opinion.There are archaic rules and maybe at some point, we're going to have to take those rules on because for the good of the nation things are going to have to be different. You can't go through a process like this. It's not fair, it forces you to make bad decisions. I mean, if you're forced into doing things that you would normally not do except for these archaic rules, so --MacCALLUM: Like what, how would you change them?TRUMP: Well, you know, you look at the voting and you look at the filibuster system. And it used to be... You know, I always thought of filibuster where you stand up and you talk all day and then somebody else--MacCALLUM: You don't have to do that anymore.TRUMP: No, you don't have to do it anymore. Today you say filibuster, guys sit home and they watch television or whatever they do. I think, you know, the filibuster concept is not a good concept to start off with but if you're going to filibuster, let somebody stand up for 20 hours and talk and do what they have to do or even if they are reading comic books to everybody, let them do it, but honestly, the whole... with so many bad concepts in our rules and it's forcing bad decisions. I really see. I see just -- I've seen this -- I've seen it over the years where bad decisions are made, decisions that nobody wanted are made because of archaic rules and that's something that I think we're going to have to change.
But the Independent reported on this interview quite differently from what actually occurred, with the headline, "Donald Trump slams 'archaic' US constitution that is 'really bad' for the country." The article begins, "Donald Trump has blamed the US constitution for the problems he has encountered during his first 100 days in office. In an interview with Fox News to mark the milestone, the Republican called the system of checks and balances on power 'archaic.' 'It’s a very rough system,' he said. 'It’s an archaic system … It’s really a bad thing for the country.'"
Also, the leftwing Guardian got in on the misrepresentation with this headline:" Donald Trump blames constitution for chaos of his first 100 days."
Wait, what? Did we see the same interview? Charlie Martin of PJ Media blames this on the Trump Trance Effect, which he defines as "Trump says something, and people decide he said something else, even -- by careful manipulation of context and straight out misquotation -- apparently quote him as saying something else."
Especially considering that it is the left, not President Trump, who resents Constitutional restrictions, the media's hypocrisy knows no bounds. However, what's worse than the fact that they misrepresent what he says is the fact that they might not even realize -- or care -- that they're doing it.
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