"The annual,
celebrity-studded WHCA dinner has long been criticized as a display of too-cozy
relations between the media and people they are supposed to cover fairly and
critically. It usually involves a comedian or master of ceremonies roasting the
president, and then president responding in kind."
This week, Donald Trump
has become the first president after Nixon to not attend the White House's
Correspondents' Association Dinner. To President Trump, this dinner promotes
such "Fake News" he has spread awareness to during his
campaign. News reporters like the New York Times, NBC News, and CNN will
be in attendance.
Tom Namako makes the
claim that Trump is not attending this dinner because his views on the media
and how it illustrates himself as a political leader. I agree with Namako. I
think that part of Trump’s failure to gain support from most medias sources is
the way he handles criticism. It seems that whenever the President is critiqued,
he has to shoot back with a tweet or a snarky retort. Take Meryl Streep’s
acceptance speech at the Golden Globes, for instance. When Streep spoke out
about how it is troubling to know that someone who is that insensitive to
disabled people could be representing our country, instead of responding to
Streep with an apology, or even a rational behind his earlier claims, Trump
instead felt the need to tweet about it, like a teenage girl. He said something
along the lines that Streep was an overrated actress, and how her comments were
violent.
I think that, when
examining what makes Trump and other inefficient leaders weak is that of their
use of the rhetoric. Maintaining ethos at all cost should be essential for
anyone politics, especially towards those who opposed your views. If this is
not practiced, people will dislike one not just because they disagree with
them, but because they think one put their emotions in the way of their craft.
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