Media Once Again Falls For Trump’s Carnival Barker Schtick

During his embarrassing meeting with new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney this week, Donald Trump teased an “earth shattering announcement” that he would be making later on in the week. As usual, the media gobbled this up and immediately started running headlines about the potential announcement. This is nothing but Trump being a typical carnival barker, hyping up something that no one is even going to care about in the end – a distraction from the economic chaos and nonstop scandals of his administration. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what happened.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Far too many members of the mainstream corporate media have not yet figured out that Donald Trump is nothing more than a carnival barker. He is the guy standing outside the freak show yelling at everybody to come in and, oh my God, be amazed at the cyclops, the one-eyed man. You've never seen anything like this before in your life. And then of course, you walk inside and it's just a guy with an eye patch on, not actually a cyclops, but the press falls for it every single time. And this week we got what might be the very best example to prove that During Donald Trump's disastrous and embarrassing meeting with ca, uh, Canada's new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, Trump made the following tease, which the press immediately took to the headlines out there printing as many stories about it as possible. Because Trump said this, we're going to have a very, very big announcement to make like as big as it gets. And I won't tell you on what. And it's very positive. It is really, really positive. It'll be one of the most important announcements that have ever been made in many years about a certain subject, very important subject. So you'll all be here.

And that was it. Prime Minister Carney said he was on the edge of his seat. Oh, I'm excited about this. What's it gonna be? And the press immediately, right? Began speculating like, oh God, does he actually have some trade deals he is gonna announce? Well, no, because his new Middle East envoy, uh, Steve Whitcoff actually said, it's actually not about trade. It's, it's not like it's not gonna happen. Um, so then it really doesn't matter, does it? If it's not about trade, then it certainly is not going to be about the economy. So it's not really something that really deserves any attention whatsoever. Again, Trump was the carnival Barker trying to get you to come into the tent. Oh, you won't believe what's inside folks. Oh my God. And then you get in there and it's a dog painted like a tiger. Nothing important, nothing real, but he suckered you in and he got your attention anyway, didn't he?

That's what Trump does. And the media falls for it every time. Here's the thing, it's gonna be something stupid. And the fact that Donald Trump's new Middle East Envoy knows about it, means that we may already have gotten that big announcement, which is, we're not gonna call it the Persian Gulf. We're gonna call it the Arabian Gulf, which Trump, Trump announced on Wednesday, as if anybody gives a crap, great. You're renaming another body of water that you don't actually have the ability to rename. Great, wonderful. That's not even a big, that's not earth shattering. That's not even anything anybody in this country

Cares about. But that is an announcement he made. So maybe that's it. Maybe he's announcing that he's finally gonna take a cognitive exam in front of the entire public. Maybe he's taken Jasmine Crockett up on her offer to do side-by-side IQ tests. But no, it's nothing. It's either gonna be what we already saw with the Persian Gulf becoming the Arabian Gulf or something far less interesting, like Donald Trump launching a new Grif to steal money from his supporters. Either way, report on it when it happens. But the media is absolutely pathetic on issues like this, trying to get people interested in a big announcement that may not even ever happen. And if it does, it's gonna be the dumbest thing we've ever heard.