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"The Propaganda Document": Entirely unsurprising yet hilarious all the same. by Mischief Maker 08/10/2017, 6:06am PDT
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 fucking positive.” That’s why some in the White House ruefully refer to the packet as “the propaganda document.”


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



“If we had prepared such a digest for Obama, he would have roared with laughter,” said David Axelrod
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"The Propaganda Document": Entirely unsurprising yet hilarious all the same. by Mischief Maker 08/10/2017, 6:06am PDT NEW
    I read "20 to 25 page" and thought, may as well make it a million by laudablepuss 08/10/2017, 11:10am PDT NEW
 
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