Trump’s Media Team Is At A 3 When They Need To Be At A 10

Trump is focusing too much on controversies rather than his policies and pushing a positive narrative.

We’ve seen tweet after tweet of Trump venting about the fake Russian collusion that the Clinton camp fabricated. The media has a microscope on every single negative tweet coming from him. Until he changes focus, the media will never change their tone. You weaponize his tweets and force them to cover his agenda.

His team should be using the media to do their work. The media focuses on every single thing Trump tweets so long as they are negative. His tweets drive the entire narrative for the day and I am flabbergasted they are not getting a team of talented individuals to run his social media. Just to be clear, I am in favor of Trump tweeting so don’t get the wrong idea. I just think he could tweak a few things to force the media to cover his agenda and focus more on what he wants.

I want to see a story on the economy and jobs under Trump. I want to see what regulations are being cut. I can’t find any reference to what Trump’s done with regulations on CNN. I typed in “regulation” on their website and found nothing but negative hit pieces. I’m not expecting CNN to cover Trump in a positive light but they’ve been writing about every single negative tweet and focusing much of their newscasts on them. Nothing on the positives. If they don’t have anything negative from his Twitter to cover, they have to focus on something else.

While this tweet is 100% correct, I would find someone like Lee Stranahan over at The Populist. I would tweet out some of his coverage of CrowdStrike and bring it to the mainstream media’s attention. Force them to cover this company who’s had some questionable reports and retractions. Tweet out something where it states the “Russian collusion” narrative was started by the Clinton campaign (which it was) and include mention of how CrowdStrike has gotten things wrong before. Cast doubt on the company. Cast doubt on their report where to my knowledge, they didn’t actually state how the malware got onto the servers (hint, inside job). He needs to continue to tweet out that the DNC refused to let the FBI forensically examine their servers but instead were fine with CrowdStrike doing the investigation. You cast doubt on the company and cast doubt on Comey for allowing it to happen. Trump should be very repetitious about this topic with regards to Comey and CrowdStrike.

While I like that Trump retweeted Hannity, I would like him to tweet something like this from Hannity:

That was Hannity’s opening monologue from last night. Gives background and lays out a perfect case for what’s going on right now. While retweeting Hannity is good, retweeting Hannity’s opening monologue would be better served under the context of what I’m writing here. People would want to click it and watch. What is the media going to focus on for Trump to retweet that Hannity will be on in 30 minutes? “Trump just retweeted Hannity, figures. Free publicity for Fox.” I’d want people to be watching Hannity, not reading a tweet about his show starting in 30 minutes.

Now, I love this tweet but it had 29 characters left. Plenty to put in a link citing the law for the special counsel on conduct and accountability. The law, which states this:

The Special Counsel and staff shall be subject to disciplinary action for misconduct and breach of ethical duties under the same standards and to the same extent as are other employees of the Department of Justice. Inquiries into such matters shall be handled through the appropriate office of the Department upon the approval of the Attorney General.

and

The Special Counsel may be disciplined or removed from office only by the personal action of the Attorney General. The Attorney General may remove a Special Counsel for misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest, or for other good cause, including violation of Departmental policies. The Attorney General shall inform the Special Counsel in writing of the specific reason for his or her removal.

Misconduct for the leaking. Conflict of interest because Mueller is friends with Comey since we are getting into the obstruction aspect over Trump firing him. Rosenstein also recommended Comey be fired. Since both are conflicts of interest, Rosenstein would technically need to recuse himself and Mueller should resign. At least one would think. Maybe I’m way off but from what I’ve read and heard legal experts talk about, these seem to apply here.

He has a bit over 93 million followers if we add it up across all social media platforms. The media focuses on exactly what he says on Twitter and focuses on the negatives. They stick to Russian collusion stories because when he says it’s fake, all they have to say is: “He’s obviously hiding something. That’s why he wants to shut it down.” You and I know it’s a bunch of baloney but the media will continue spin it along with the politicians on the left who just want him to resign or be impeached. Media wants ratings/clicks while politicians want him out.

I’d like to see more facts and a timeline to go up with that venting in the form of news articles. I’d like to see more positive stories coming out from his Twitter account. He’s in a period where his media team needs to work for him, not against him.

Trump, Pence, and a few other key executives are also not bound by the Hatch Act. They could be lighting up social media with support for politicians who share his agenda. They should be putting a spotlight on each candidate they support and who Trump wants us to support. I don’t see them doing this. Maybe a rogue tweet every once in a while.

Just a few thoughts here and my frustrations with Trump and his tweets.