Thread by @kegill

Quoting Trump lies without context is not journalism.

It is stenography.

It is being an active participant in spreading propaganda.

@thehill
/status/1204561748436631552

#TrumpRallyHersheyPA

As always, it takes more words to rebut a lie ...

From @pewresearch last year:
Western Europeans have a strikingly negative views of Trump. And worldwide, people think we aren’t very important anymore

pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018…

“Seven in 10 people around the world have no confidence in Trump, according to the @pewresearch survey of 26,112 people in 25 countries.”

theatlantic.com/international/…

Trump has been, well, trumpeting this claim since he took office. It was a lie then, too. In 2017: “86 percent of Germans said they had ‘a lot of confidence’ or ‘some confidence’ in Obama, but only 11 percent said the same of Trump.”
factcheck.org/2017/09/world-…

TWO.
Stop treating Trump campaign rallies as though they were presidential and newsworthy.

They. Are. Not.

Report that he went, how much it cost national taxpayers, how much it cost local taxpayers.

Include his Full Word Salad statements + fact checks.

STOP paraphrasing in a way that makes Trump sound like he can dot his i’s and cross his t’s, like this. Jeff makes him appear coherent.

Compare and contrast.

@jeffmason1
/status/1203038357179289606

“But together, we’re defending the American workers. We’re using common sense. We have a situation where we’re looking very strongly at sinks and showers and other elements of bathrooms where you turn the faucet on....

“... in areas where there’s tremendous amounts of water, where the water rushes out to sea because you could never handle it — and you don’t get any water. You turn on the faucet; you don’t get any water. They take a shower and water comes dripping out.”

“It’s dripping out — very quietly dripping out. People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times, as opposed to once. They end up using more water. So, EPA is looking at that very strongly, at my suggestion.”
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“So we’re looking at, very seriously, at opening up the standard... for the most part, you have many states where they have so much water that it comes down — it’s called rain — (laughter) — that they don’t know — they don’t know what to do with it.”

archive.is/8gP3k

Trump on energy-efficient light bulbs and the all-powerful “THEY”

“They got rid of the lightbulb that people got used to. The new bulb is many times more expensive... And they’re already making the old bulbs....”

archive.is/8gP3k

“.... And you’ll be able to buy lightbulbs that actually are better lighting, in the opinion of many — and, I tell you, in my opinion — and for a lot less money. And so we’re doing that... And I’ll tell you, even the bulb companies are very happy about that.”

Two things from these excerpts:
- he wants to make businesses “happy” at the expense of the environment
- he is incoherent

If you MUST tweet realtime, then delay long enough to provide the facts. Or just RT @ddale8

Create a database of the standard tropes and the data that counter them.

The NEWS would be if he says something truthful.

Parroting Ttump lies, half-truths and tired tropes does nothing to further democracy or civic understanding. Instead, it helps spread outrage.

So. Just. Stop.

Read and hire @jayrosen_nyu

@threadreaderapp #unroll pls

Parroting Trump lies, half-truths and tired tropes does nothing to further democracy or civic understanding. Instead, it helps spread outrage.

So. Just. Stop.

Read and hire @jayrosen_nyu