Model Behavior

 I get it. There are plenty of folks "in the media" for whom I do not hold a deep and abiding affection. 

However, it does occur to me that if they happened to be in a position to carry my message out to a vast audience, and heaven forbid have nice things to say about it, 

If, for example, I was the star of a major motion picture, I would probably take it upon myself to show up on time to press junkets and be marginally polite to the assembled print and video journalists who had assembled to transcribe all the witty things I had to say about the product I was there to promote. 

It would be part of the job.

That said, I guess I can understand how the current resident of what's left of the White House finds himself in the unenviable position of being underwater on every issue according to polls. Polls that are generated by, alas, the media. 

He's not nice. He calls them, especially women, "stupid, nasty, and mean." Not content to simply berate reporters for the job they are doing, he feels compelled at times to berate them for their physical appearance. All of which can be summed up with the schoolyard comeback, "Look in the mirror much?"

One of the more recent moments of the convicted felon throwing a hissy fit with the press was when Rachel Scott asked him about his promise to release the video of the second strike on the alleged drug boat last September. The part where the survivors, clinging to wreckage, were killed by the U.S. Military. His hissyness insisted,  "I didn’t say that … this is ABC fake news," to which Ms. Scott responded, "You said that. You said that you would have no problem releasing the full video.” 

Because he did. Just a few days before he doubled down on his change of mind by calling Ms. Scott "obnoxious." 

Don't be surprised if the current trend of media attention tanks the next major motion picture released from MAGA Studios.