By Aaron Kesel
In a world of fake news and alternative facts it can be hard to get the “truth,” so U.S. President Donald Trump has quietly launched his own ‘propaganda’ news network in a move straight out of George Orwell’s dystopian society 1984, a Ministry of Truth.
In Orwell’s novel, the Ministry of Truth’s purpose was to dictate and protect the government’s version of reality.
Last week, it went silently unnoticed as the Trump campaign launched a state propaganda news network.
President Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, will head the “news organization” being deemed “Trump TV” funded by Trump’s reelection campaign according to The Daily Beast.
Trump’s plight about MSM news and their lack of positive news about his administration will finally be heard using Facebook to broadcast “Trump TV.” Topics include job growth, the stock market, the economy and any other positive news about Trump’s achievements for the week.
“More great economic news on Friday,” former pro-Trump CNN commentator Kayleigh McEnany says, seated in front of a blue Trump-Pence themed wall to give “the real news.”
McEnany has also just been announced to be the Republican National Committee’s national spokesperson, Politico reported. It’s unclear if this new job will affect McEnany’s ability to also be the propaganda spokeswoman for Trump TV as well. It’s also unclear whether she is being paid by the Trump campaign or the White House.
1984‘s sales raised the book back to the bestseller’s list on Amazon after Trump’s inauguration, NYPost reported.
In another video, Lara Trump talks about the president’s successes.
“I bet you haven’t heard about all the accomplishments the president had this week because there’s so much fake news out there,” she said at the beginning of the video, The Hill reported. “We wanted to give you a glimpse into his week,” Lara Trump added.
However, it’s the way she signs off the network that is worrying.
“Thanks for joining us everybody. I’m Lara Trump, and that is the real news,” Laura Trump said concluding the video.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul tweeted that the video felt like “state-owned channels” in other countries.
Wow. Feels eerily like so many state-owned channels I’ve watched in other countries https://t.co/dqsLEfuLj8
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) August 6, 2017
The director of Campaign Legal Center, Brendan Fischer, told The Daily Beast that the president “is now using campaign funds to create what looks like a quasi-state TV project.”
“A disclaimer stating that this is paid for by the Trump campaign appears particularly important here,” Fischer continued.
That disclosure “is legally required for any other ad broadcast by the Trump campaign,” he further expressed, but “there is some ambiguity about when a disclaimer is required for ads posted exclusively on social media, and the Trump campaign may be trying to assert a loophole.”
The Late Show host, Stephen Colbert, spoofed President Trump’s new “Real News” videos in a segment last week “that looks like state-sponsored propaganda,” Colbert said.
The comedian then cuts to a quick skit of his program “Real News” in which the anchors mock Lara Trump.
While Trump TV may highlight his accomplishments it certainly won’t highlight his scandals and it’s important to get a balanced diet of propaganda.
Previously MSNBC’s Co-host of Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski, has stated that it was the media’s job to “control exactly what people think.” Here at Activist Post we think it’s your job to think for yourself.
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. – Jim Morrison.
Aaron Kesel writes for Activist Post and is Director of Content for Coinivore. Follow Aaron at Twitter and Steemit.
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never got that feeling before, watching cnn; all good before trump tv. awesome article.
More fake employment numbers which is more fake news.
Meh
I Am sure it will be more truthful than ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, cnn, hln, fox, and all the other propaganda units out there. Could be very funny, depending on how they play it.
Dear leader happy funtime hour!
This is a good thing. Anything to get away from the fake news presstitutes.
Aaron Kesel, what did they report that wasn’t true? what’s that? you haven’t actually even watched it? ohhh that’s right you get paid to write propaganda, not facts!
Let me say (((Kesel))) that would explain everything
No Brain, No Shame.
Anyone who would use the childish antics of the Colbert show, as a form of serious depiction, shows just how immature and lost many are. The conditioning is working well. It’s bad enough I have to endure this bizarre nonsense on TV, now we have to see it here???
Lords Of The Flies, or better yet Twilight Zone. I keep waiting for Rod Serling to step out into the shot.
Activist Post really slipped on approving this article. What is the author…twelve?
Pardon my cynicism, but I don’t trust trump or anyone in DC, or the news. I agree with George Carlin and don’t believe anything the government says, or the news because I have this thing called “thinking” that keeps getting in the way.
As if anything on TV is real at all. THEY ARE SHOWS. Complete with actors, readers, and repeaters.
Even the weather channel has been affected and uses DRAMA to get ratings.
We’ve lost our way, and run amok, but we haven’t the senses to even realize it anymore.
Have you noticed everything on TV sounds like an over the top infomercial, or they are talking to you like reading a bedtime story to children. We keep slowly sinking in this bizarre fog, but desensitization and conditioning won’t let us wake from the ongoing nightmare.
Hilariously sad and pathetic.
All who seek truth will learn about our MSM by looking into “Operation Mockingbird”. We have been in an Orwellian fascist society since the end of WWII.
Oh wait for it……Obama did the same thing. Of course you all think he walked on water. I do believe you thought he was your savior.
Are you unable to see with your head up your ass
This article is sad. Activist Post: WHAT ARE YOU THINKING? We should be embracing the idea that more choice in the news media aisle is becoming available… especially from somone who won’t have to be a whore to advertisers offerings. And citing Colbert as a reliable source for commentary? SERIOUSLY? Did Huff Po just buy this outlet?
Rather hear what they have to say than the MSM, who lies on a daily basis and spins everything the President Trump says into something he’s not. Why is it I know exactly what he means and they do not? That is not to say I always agree.
Afraid of state sponsored propaganda? What do you think you’ve been getting all these years? 1984 arrived long ago. By the way, no one is required to watch Trump TV. Me, I’d rather choose my propaganda.
I’m sure the author would be more approving of new broadcasted by the NWO family network of new sites and channels. Am I wrong?
Or maybe some more satanic tv shows or how pedofilia is just a choice ..I think you mean JWO..
What’s hilarious Aaron is your clueless propaganda article. In case you haven’t noticed, the State has been against Trump ever since he ran for President. The leadership of both completely corrupt parties are against Trump and against having a real Constitutional Republic that is run by the people who overwhelmingly voted Trump into office, even though the leadership of both parties committed every illegal and crooked trick in the book to steal the election for one of their puppets. Most people realize by now that the msm is scripted and run by Corporations who pay off the govt leadership to do whatever they want. Since they won’t tell the truth or report real news Trump started his own news media so people might be allowed to hear about his accomplishments. Which I think is a brilliant idea of which he has many. Now that we have a President who is not selling us out and is throwing a wrench into the corrupt corporate government machine, the ‘State’, and the msm are doing everything they can to assassinate his character and go back to business as usual.
Stephen Colbert probably couldn’t tie his shoe without a script, another form of fake news. So the idiot clown mocks someone who is trying to help the country. Maybe you should write him in as the next president. The only thing Mr Colbert cares about is his paycheck.
We are all going to die.
Well it will be an alternative perspective..not
saying there will be any truth in it. Had high hopes for Trump but,as usual, they haven’t panned out! A lot of typical war mongering, raising taxes on the working people and lowering taxes for the rich pigs, wasted money in the form of “aid” to welfare countries, lucrative military industrial complex contracts, no end to Obamacare tax, NO reinstated Glass Steagle, surrounded by neocons and Zionist banking filth, hiring idiot family members like dumb as rocks Ivanka and her satanic 666 Zio husband who never did any real work in their lives that wasn’t funded by rich parents…UGH same old crap ..Americans last!