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I’ve been trying to\u00a0determine when I’ve ever seen a president of the United States treat the media in the manner being displayed by the current one.<\/p>\n

I cannot remember a single time. Not even during President Richard Nixon’s time in the White House.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump has shown utter contempt and disrespect for the men and women assigned to cover the White House for their various news organizations.<\/p>\n

It manifests itself when he gets a question he dislikes. He tells reporters to “sit down, that’s enough” when they seek to elaborate on their question, to fill in a blank or two. No, the president will have none of it.<\/p>\n

Forget for a moment that he calls them “dishonest” out loud, in public, to their face … and then expects these fellow human beings<\/em> to treat him with kid gloves.<\/p>\n

The disrespect — as I’ve witnessed it — is unlike anything I’ve ever witnessed, even from afar.<\/p>\n

If we march back through time — starting from Barack Obama and going backward — I cannot remember a president acting the way this one does in front of the media.<\/p>\n

There was\u00a0one memorable,\u00a0testy exchange in the 1970s between then-CBS News correspondent Dan Rather and President Nixon. The president was getting entangled in the Watergate scandal and Rather asked him a pointed question. Some members of the press gallery chuckled, some even clapped. Nixon asked Rather, “Are you running for something?” Rather responded, “No, Mr. President, are you?”<\/p>\n

Presidents usually have strained relations with the media. They dislike negative coverage, as does any politician — no matter what they might say. As I’ve watched presidential\/media relationships from a distance over the years, I have noticed a sometimes cool cordiality between the Big Man and the media that cover him.<\/p>\n

What we’re getting now is open hostility and an exhibition of extremely bad manners from the guy who needs the media as least as much as they need him.<\/p>\n

I’m trying to imagine what will occur if and\/or when the crap really hits the fan at the White House. I fear the president will go berserk.<\/p>\n

Didn’t someone mention temperament<\/em> as a quality we look for in a president of the United States of America?<\/p>\n\n

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I’ve been trying to\u00a0determine when I’ve ever seen a president of the United States treat the media in the manner being displayed by the current one. I cannot remember a single time. Not even during President Richard Nixon’s time in the White House. Donald Trump has shown utter contempt and disrespect for the men and … Continue reading It’s the temperament, man … the temperamant<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[540,889,1257,1424,3940,6461,5206,5248],"class_list":["post-19834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-cbs-news","tag-dan-rather","tag-donald-trump","tag-richard-nixon","tag-the-media","tag-watergate","tag-white-house-press-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19837,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19834\/revisions\/19837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}