Making The Case To Remove Trump’s Entire Media/Communications Team & Start Over

Enough is enough. It is clear Trump’s media team is sabotaging him from the inside.

Trump’s media team have done such an awful job and even I’m surprised he has not cleaned house. This goes way beyond the Press Secretary, Sean Spicer. I’m talking about those who deal with the media, respond to the media, ensure the press have access to the Press Briefings, etc. What we’ve seen time and time again is that they are failing at something that should be a very easy job — counter the narrative and provide access.

Why is it so hard for Trump’s media team to get his message out? To clarify and push back on every hit piece from the media. Why are they not engaging more with the GOP voting base? Why are they not all over social media Tweeting at least 10 Tweets linking to pro-Trump stories and articles of their own pushing back against the media (took that idea from Mike Cernovich)? Seeing as how they have access to all the facts, it could take maybe 15–20 minutes to write an article and proofread it as a quick rebuttal on bigger topics that the media keeps hammering Trump on.

Now, I’m not going to look at all of Trump’s media team. My article here is not just a hit piece on them. It is about questioning what these individuals are doing to help Trump versus hurt him. It would also be a waste of time to go comb through everything about these individuals to cherry pick one or two things. You may ask why don’t I call them out? Because they are all awful. Yep, all of them. Sorry not sorry. Even during the campaign, I never saw Trump breaking stories, it was always someone else. I never saw Trump running hit pieces against other candidates, it was always someone else. Trump’s social media campaign just piggybacked on what was already said. That’s not a good social media team. I didn’t see Trump doing massive amounts of new media outreach. For being about “new media,” Trump’s team doesn’t really do a whole lot with new media. Even the guy hired for “new media” seems to just be doing small video clips. How in the hell is that considered new media?

Why don’t I see Trump on Periscope? Trump hasn’t registered an account on Gab.ai, an alternative to Twitter. I don’t see Trump doing interviews with new media people like Bill Mitchell of YourVoiceRadio. I will be the first to throw Bill Mitchell under the bus for his 100% pro-Trump rhetoric, but why hasn’t Trump been interviewed by him? This guy is Trump’s #1 cheerleader. We know Trump listens to this guy seeing as how he retweeted him. So why on earth has Trump not done an interview with him? I know for a fact Bill would make whatever time is needed for this simple Skype interview. A simple Skype interview. I’m sure some scrub high school intern could set up a Skype interview with Bill Mitchell for Trump.

Where is Trump’s presence on Reddit? You have an entire subreddit devoted to him where you could get further engagement from. Hell, the subreddit has about 6 million subs even though Reddit is actively throttling the counts. Now, I say Reddit because we all know what happens with sites like Twitter. All those blue checks get who are 100% anti-Trump somehow get magically filtered to the top replies. There could be daily threads of just looking for engagement asking what questions you want Trump to answer in a daily or weekly 10 minute video that would go right to Periscope and YouTube. Yes, Trump does a weekly address but it’s so basic that you can actually ignore it and still come out knowing the same amount of information you already knew.

Who is holding him back? Are his own people holding him back? The GOP? The establishment people like Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer? I’d be very surprised if the people who came from the Trump Organization were holding him back as it wouldn’t make a whole lot of sense. But they may be getting throttled with everything they want to do. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt but as the days go on, somethings gotta give. You’d think these people could talk to Trump. You know, that guy who literally Tweets for Trump and who is by his side quite a bit (Dan Scavino). What about that guy? No? Okay then. Back to the drawing board.

Then we have articles like this:

Hiring more people just to handle posts to Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Seriously? That’s it? Some intern could do this crap. Hell, a high school student could do this for minimum wage. These people need to be all over social media. Pushing back against the mainstream media’s narrative that Trump is getting nothing accomplished. Where are they? It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out he either has no one working on these things or people within his administration are not letting it happen.

Where are the stories pushing back the narrative where the media continuously writes false statements like everyone hates Bannon and the Bannon v Kushner feud? Why haven’t his social media team created a 5-minute clip of the two answering those question in a one-on-one interview style setting this issue to rest?

When Trump talks about polls being rigged, why isn’t he focusing on the undersampling of republicans by 10% where these results differ from the exit polls? This would be a massive win for him and force the entirety of mainstream media polls to completely overhaul how they conduct polling and how they get collect these “random” samples. Yet what do we have? Crickets.

Not on Trump’s media team

When Trump talks about voter fraud, why do we not see Trump’s media team blasting these stories all over the place like the two quick examples here and here? There are plenty of similar stories when you search Google it makes me wonder what’s going on. Social media, Trump making short videos talking about it, the Potus Twitter tweeting it out, etc? All we hear is that there is NO voter fraud, period. Yet there are cases here and there and are mostly handled by the state and local officials. But there is still voter fraud. Still, crickets from his social media team getting his message out. Instead, Trump just looks like a fool when you see him Tweet out stuff like that. Even Sean Spicer threw Trump under the bus when he didn’t mention the dozens of cases at the state and local levels. Spicer would just say: “Yeah, there’s totally voter fraud, just like Trump said. I just can’t give you any factual evidence to back that up. Teehee.” Take 30 seconds and use Google.

You even have Meghan McCain criticizing Trump’s media team going after Spicer specifically. Seriously, a McCain of all people.

You have a spokesperson like Sean Spicer, who’s become a parody of himself

Ouch. I mean, he is. Let me recount a few things off the top of my head as I’ve watched every Press Briefing so far. He wore his American Flag upside down. Does he not know what that means?

The bags under his eyes seem to get bigger and bigger each day. He is taking longer to respond to questions than when he originally started. He calls on the exact same reporters day in and day out who ask the exact same questions. I’ve lost count how many Russian collusion questions have been asked. At least in the 50s or 60s by now. These reporters even bounce questions off each other it and becomes annoying. The tone they take, the looks they give him, it’s a massive groupthink. I can’t imagine what half the people there are thinking. The issue with calling on the same people is because they ask the same questions, stick to the same talking points, etc. Nothing changes with them. Nothing unique. We’re talking about the people in the first three rows usually. I’d mention the Hitler statement but ugh. How dumb do you have to be to even make that comparison and then screw up at trying to correct yourself?

Now, we have a Never Trump movement leader, Helen Aguirre Ferre, who is the White House’s Director of Media Relations.

How on earth does the main person behind the Never Trump movement become the Director of Media Relations? How? When asked, Breitbart couldn’t even get Spicer to comment as to who hired her. How the hell does Trump not know these things? Who is keeping him in the dark and who is advocating for these people. I’d suspect it is Reince Priebus seeing as how it’s his damn job but who knows, right?

…as an adviser to former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s failed 2016 presidential campaign and as a GOP consultant after Bush dropped out of the race — bashed Trump repeatedly on the campaign trail, leading the Never Trump movement.

Is this an SNL episode or something? I feel like the people running his entire media team work for SNL. How in the world does someone like that end up working for Trump. There are literally thousands of people better suited and probably more qualified than she is.

So there it is, a few examples of what Trump’s media team can do differently and how they are utterly failing from within. Personally, I think the GOP establishment are purposely sabotaging him and for whatever reason, he is doing nothing about it. Is he being left in the dark and just doesn’t have the knowledge and time to do something about it? But how does no one else talk to him about these things? Either way, stuff like this needs to get his attention. He needs to do a complete 180 when it comes to media engagement and clean house with his media team. Remove all establishment people from the media team and fire Reince for knowingly trying to sabotage Trump. I mean, do I have to talk about Katie Walsh?

I close with an example of how Trump’s media team has utterly failed him. Look at this new page on WhiteHouse.gov:

That counts what, a little bit over a dozen things? Yet this Reddit post shows several dozen things Trump has done so far. This Reddit post, which is being continuously updated, lists 26 campaign promises accomplished and several others not promised on the campaign trail. So, how in the hell does Trump’s media team only have a few items listed? How? Whoever is responsible for this content needs to be fired for just gross negligence. How can some random person create a list 19 days ago that is getting continuously updated but his own team only lists a couple of things? His own team, who are literally paid to do this. If you can picture me throwing something against my monitor, that is how I feel about Trump’s media team and how he is getting played by them.