Case Study: How Trump's Address to Congress is a Blueprint to Undermining America's Institutions
Nick Licata
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Media detailed Trump’s multiple false and misleading claims but ignored how that was a deliberate strategy for demolishing our democratic republican institutions.
Something like 36.6 million people watched President Donald Trump’s Address to the Joint Congress on 15 different networks. Academics note that his address differed from all previous presidential speeches and that he lied more than any other president.
Thomas B. Edsall is the Pulitzer Moore Professor of Public Affairs Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He wrote: “Donald Trump can lay claim to the title of most prodigious liar in the history of the presidency.” George C. Edwards III is the Jordan Chair in Presidential Studies Emeritus at Texas A&M University. He wrote: “Donald Trump tells more untruths than any previous president. There is no one that is a close second.”
Nine networks summarized the takeaways each found in Trump’s address: CBS, CNN, NPR, Al Jazeera, AP News, Fox News, the New York Times, Time Magazine, and the Washington Post. The consensus was that Trump promoted blatantly false claims and used them to attack Democrats and their policies.
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