How Trump Trolls the Media with Twitter
This is what linguist and persuasion expert George Lakoff’s says about President Trump’s Twitter strategy.
Trump knows he can feed the media's addiction to "breaking news" by sending out a provocative tweet first thing in the morning. He uses the following strategic communication tactics:
- preemptive framing
- diversion
- deflection
- trial-ballooning
President Trump's Twitter followers have grown from 5 million to 31 million. His strategy of harnessing the power of attention works. He who get's the most attention wins. Meanwhile the media is freaking out.
But they don't see how they are being manipulated.
Source: Real Clear Politics.
It's even deeper than that; trump counts on a hostile reaction to his posting, and has included minor errors in his (and his staff's) Tweets; when the Ministry of Truth "pounces" on these minor errors, they end up proving his major point. They aren't paying attention to the larger picure (the media), but looking for gotcha quotes.
Scott Adams (of Dilbert) has has a field day at his blog explaining Trump's manipulation of these propagandists and their agenda.
Exactly. I don't always agree with Trump's position on things. but I do love how he tweaks and manipulates his enemies into making fools of themselves while he controls the narrative. Their only response is to then create something out of thin air, usually some half-assed 'leak' that is leaving a sloppy trail for the Justice dept. to follow up on.
Watch what he does today and tomorrow morning to frame Comey's testimony.
His morning Tweets are my pre coffee coffee.
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