Title : Trump is still only teasing the "Something very big has just happened!".... but news reports say that our forces have killed al-Baghdadi .
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Trump is still only teasing the "Something very big has just happened!".... but news reports say that our forces have killed al-Baghdadi .
Here's how it looks at Trump's Twitter page right now:
A pinned tweet. That's the tweet I called "Kind of disturbing actually" last night. Why "disturbing" when it suggests good news, doesn't it? I found it kind of disturbing because of the oddness of getting news this way — it's coy and it's social media. It feels like the way a friend might begin to tell us that she's fallen in love.
To my ear, the "has" gives it a special feeling. "Something very big has just happened," not "Something very big just happened." The "has" elevates it, makes it feel rather grand.
The NYT story at the moment is "Special Operations Raid Said to Kill Senior Terrorist Leader in Syria/The identity of the target was not confirmed, but President Trump was scheduled to make a statement on Sunday morning":
United States Special Operations commandos carried out a risky raid in northwestern Syria on Saturday against a senior terrorist leader there, two senior administration officials said late Saturday.That's the form and tone I'm used to reading when the news is serious.
A senior American official said commandos and analysts were still seeking to confirm the identity of the terrorist, who the officials said was killed in the operation when he exploded his suicide vest.
But a person close to President Trump and a senior American official said that the target of the raid was believed to be the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. A senior administration official said that the president had approved the mission....
This makes me think of something My name goes here wrote in the comments on last night's post:
In the "old" days an important announcement would be learned and then shared with favored journalists who would then tell all of the other journolists and they would get to be all smug and righteous when they, the favored few, would break the news about this developing story. They would lie to the audience that they are learning about this just now and they are sharing what they learn, then have 3 lined up "analysts" that already know the softball questions to expect to knit the narrative.I added the link to "journolists" to indicate that it's not a typo.
As long as Trump is president, it appears that those days are gone. Who did he tell first? Us. Tomorrow when the press carries whatever Trump's announcement is, they will be learning about it for the first time.
I like this. It pulls the Presidency into the 21st century.
Will the next President talk to us like this? Trump's antagonists expect him to be gone and to stop occupying the position of President when he is not a real President. Only when he's gone will we see what the presidency has become. Will there be a reversion to the old form, or will the new President step into the new form of President created by Trump? I don't think we can go back, but I also think there can never be another Trump.
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