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I find the media's reactions to Trump far more interesting than anything Trump does or says himself.
To wit: CNN went from first reporting "s-hole" (showing text that way and pronouncing "ess-hole") two days ago, to saying and even printing the whole word on screen and on air as of yesterday - a word which even gets replaced with asterisks on this site.
I can't prove this, but it seems like they lowered their own standards (and perhaps those dictated by the FCC as well) regarding what they will say and print on air because they felt repeating the actual curse word over and over, and writing it out in their onscreen tag lines for all to see would help make Trump look worse the more they used it (otherwise I see no reason to go from "s-hole" to the actual word since everyone knows what the abbreviated version stood for).
It seemed an obvious effort to attempt to mentally condition the public that's watching via repetition & association: where the more they used the technique of audio & visual imprinting (putting the full word up as text while both verbally and visually attributing it to Trump & placing the four-letter words next to Trump's name & photo), the more they hoped that people would take the accusation that Trump used these precise words in the context that CNN continued to place them with 24/7 coverage, analysis & speculation as fact.
And where the more they used it, the more they attempted to reinforce their continued effort to repeat that Trump is a reprehensible, xenophobic, racist, white-supremacist Nazi due to curse words he might have used (gearing, once again, toward an effort to impeach him - as so many of their "reporters," "consultants," and Congressional guests continue to call for.)
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