Trump gets a folder full of positive news about himself twice a day

[sarahb 17,185]

Twice a day since the beginning of the Trump administration, a special folder is prepared for the president. The first document is prepared around 9:30 a.m. and the follow-up, around 4:30 p.m. Former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and former Press Secretary Sean Spicer both wanted the privilege of delivering the 20-to-25-page packet to President Trump personally, White House sources say.

These sensitive papers, described to VICE News by three current and former White House officials, don’t contain top-secret intelligence or updates on legislative initiatives. Instead, the folders are filled with screenshots of positive cable news chyrons (those lower-third headlines and crawls), admiring tweets, transcripts of fawning TV interviews, praise-filled news stories, and sometimes just pictures of Trump on TV looking powerful.

One White House official said the only feedback the White House communications shop, which prepares the folder, has ever gotten in all these months is: “It needs to be more ****ing positive.” That’s why some in the White House ruefully refer to the packet as “the propaganda document.”

The process of assembling the folder begins at the Republican National Committee’s “war room,” which has expanded from 4 to 10 people since the GOP won the White House. A war room — both parties have one regardless of who’s in the White House — is often tasked with monitoring local and national news, cable television, social media, digital media, and print media to see how the party, its candidates or their opponents are being perceived.

Beginning at 6 a.m. every weekday — the early start is a longtime war room tradition — three staffers arrive at the RNC to begin monitoring the morning shows on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News as they scour the internet and newspapers. Every 30 minutes or so, the staffers send the White House Communications Office an email with chyron screenshots, tweets, news stories, and interview transcripts.

White House staffers then cull the information, send out clips to other officials, and push favorable headlines to a list of journalists. But they also pick out the most positive bits to give to the president. On days when there aren’t enough positive chyrons, communications staffers will ask the RNC staffers for flattering photos of the president.

“Maybe it’s good for the country that the president is in a good mood in the morning,” one former RNC official said.

Contacted by VICE News, Spicer disputed the nature of the folder. “While I won’t comment on materials we share with the president, this is not accurate on several levels,” he said in an email. Asked what about the story was inaccurate, Spicer did not respond.

Of course, every White House monitors media coverage to see how they’re being covered, and the RNC may have decided more staff was needed after the party won the White House. As the political media environment has become faster-moving and more frenzied, the efforts to follow it have also become more robust. The Obama White House usually had at least one very caffeinated point person and two others dedicated to watching Twitter, online publications, print media, and cable news, and then compile relevant clips and send them around to White House aides.

But the production of a folder with just positive news — and the use of the RNC to help produce it — seemed abnormal to former White House officials. “If we had prepared such a digest for Obama, he would have roared with laughter,” said David Axelrod, the senior adviser to Barack Obama during his first two years in the White House. “His was a reality-based presidency.”

https://news.vice.com/story/trump-folder-positive-news-white-house

[Chromatislaps 34,854]

must be fabricated positive news

[Morphine Prince 109,645]

The REAL news  

[CautiousLurker 19,709]

I sincerely admire the person who has the monumental task of finding not one, but TWO... two positive articles about Trump... EVERY SINGLE DAY... Just imagine the perseverance that task must take... Respect 

[kvnrp 48,353]

Aww isn't this cute

I wish someone would hand me a file of only positive things

Stay happy y'all

[sarahb 17,185]

7 minutes ago, CautiousLurker said:

I sincerely admire the person who has the monumental task of finding not one, but TWO... two positive articles about Trump... EVERY SINGLE DAY... Just imagine the perseverance that task must take... Respect 

Well I'm sure there's plenty of propaganda articles they can use. It says they also send admiring tweets or 'pictures of Trump on tv looking powerful' 

If anyone is a sensitive snowflake it's him 

[dannydevito 10,658]

3 minutes ago, kvnrp said:

Aww isn't this cute

I wish someone would hand me a file of only positive things

Stay happy y'all

[Ricardo 8,129]

that's so pathetic 

[PartySick 172,387]

16 minutes ago, sarahb said:

If anyone is a sensitive snowflake it's him 

In my experience, the real snowflakes are always the ones that throw that insult around

It's not the liberal asking for more recognition for gender queer people, it's the conservative whose entire way of life is destroyed by two strangers of the same sex kissing. It's not the Democrat that wants civility and maturity in the White House, it's the Republican who wants any belligerent idiot in power as long as they get rid of the brown people. It's not the Hillary supporters that were happy about a metaphorical glass ceiling being destroyed, it's the Trump supporters that think a few emails are more of an issue than decades of racism, sexism, classism, ablism, crimes, and sheer stupidity

Spoiler

*inhale*

OT: I'm not shocked. If he knew what people actually thought about him, his poor little ego would be obliterated

Spoiler

Because he's a child

 

[Pacify Him 9,073]

Probably a folder full of this gif

[Gagaloo911 12,959]

Apparently it's secretly called the "propaganda paper/folder"

[MonsterofFame 1,797]

Whether you guys want to admit it or not, there are a lot of positive things people think and say about Trump. There's a reason he got elected. The loudest voices aren't the only ones in the room.

[Michelle 2,056]

1 minute ago, MonsterofFame said:

Whether you guys want to admit it or not, there are a lot of positive things people think and say about Trump. There's a reason he got elected. The loudest voices aren't the only ones in the room.

He got elected by default. That's all. His followers say the most absurd "positive things" they support his flawed views. I mean come on but whatever floats their boat. This just proves his narcissism not that we need proof. 

[SpadesToStart 3,808]

18 minutes ago, MonsterofFame said:

Whether you guys want to admit it or not, there are a lot of positive things people think and say about Trump. There's a reason he got elected. The loudest voices aren't the only ones in the room.

The point isn't that it's shocking that there are positive articles, it's that our president is an utter narcissist who needs to revel in praise and have his ego cottled.

[MonsterofFame 1,797]

3 minutes ago, SpadesToStart said:

The point isn't that it's shocking that there are positive articles, it's that our president is an utter narcissist who needs to revel in praise and have his ego cottled.

Trump did not request this - the people around him did. I don't approve of this, but it doesn't surprise me that his staffers are trying to make their boss happy.