JD Vance @JDVance
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Pretty amazing. We’ve gotten too accustomed to our president hiding from the press.

Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh
🚨 NEW: Questions from the press taken in the first month, various presidents

🔵 Barack Obama: 161
🔴 Donald Trump [2017]: 199
🔵 Joe Biden: 141
🔴 Donald Trump [present]: 1,009

National Journal
2:35 AM · Feb 27, 2025. //

I believe I've remarked on this previously, but I want to take a moment to tip my hat to the current Trump administration for making full use of media — social and traditional — to continually get their message out to the American people. Rather than leaving Trump as the primary spokesman and leaving it up to legacy media to report on what he says and does accurately (ha!), this administration is wisely conducting a non-stop positive messaging assault via multiple telegenic and articulate surrogates. The entire Cabinet is regularly making the rounds and is highly visible on X, sharing tweets and videos of them actually doing things that make sense. This is a wise, effective strategy, in my view. It leaves the Democrats and their legacy media stenographers playing defense and looking rather silly in the process. //

GranpaNuke
18 hours ago
Your Morning Musing was spot on Susie....I had a similar thought yesterday after I read and commented on Trump's First Cabinet meeting:

"The Trump administration is executing a perfect end sweep around the front line of the main stream media. The speed with which they communicate the issues, and the use of the various means of mass communications schemes is something to behold. The legacy MSM just can't keep up with the information flow. They're stuck on stupid, lunging at the next shining object. They are in overload....and hopefully will remain in overload until they overheat and go up in flames....
I just remembered something a Naval Intel Analyst told my class at Destroyer School in Newport, RI. He was an expert on Russia (this was in the mid 80's). He said the Russian Intel folks had so much open sourced information coming in about the US Armed Forces and our capabilities, that they couldn't process and verify it all...they were overloaded and had a hard time separating the wheat from the chaff...
Seems like deja vu all over again..."