Image Still Top Priority for White House

Rebecca Morin of Politico wrote a story published this morning about President Trump’s attempts to gain support through social media. She shared one tweet in which President Trump appears to be asking his supporters to hold their own rallies, in lieu of the recent Women’s March and similar gatherings happening all over the country.

The story also looked at the most recent charges the President made against the media outlets that he more commonly refers to as “fake news”. In a tweet focusing on the perceived unfairness of the press, the President tagged both the New York Times and CNN’s twitter accounts. Morin connected these tweets with the recent discovery that the White House did not allow certain news organizations into a press briefing.

Morin’s stringing together of these events shows just how far this administration has gone in order to protect a positive image of the President, even when the facts might not be as positive as they would hope. This is definitely the first administration to use social media as a way to directly attack certain media outlets for not always reporting on the administration in a favorable light.