r/politics • u/IWantPizza555 • Sep 21 '26

No Paywall White House to Announce ‘Trump TV’ Days After Press Ban

https://www.notus.org/trump-white-house/white-house-announces-trump-tv
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u/holdmyspot123 Sep 21 '26

What's really sad is growing up the US govt was considered a reliable, if biased, source. That has changed. I'm not from the US but there are usually standards as to where you can quote things from in high school and uni. We are expected to cross verify things that before we didn't need to. This wasn't the case under Obama. It's just difficult to really explain and I don't think most people understand the loss that has taken place.

A prime example of an official government repository that universities no longer trust—and are actively warning researchers to avoid—is the live Data.gov portal and its connected federal databases.

This is just mindblowing.

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u/PhroneticReflex Sep 22 '26

I'm probably older than you because I remember this as well, but even farther back than during Obama. 

Being an American and knowing that you cant trust the governmental sources at all - not just because of biases but literal real information - is surreal. I had a feeling America would probably not stay the world power in my lifetime, but thats because I expected China, the EU, etc, to grow in prominence, not for the US to do a sprint towards becoming a banana republic. 

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u/Spraypainthero965 29d ago

You could never trust US government sources to begin with. They claimed Iraq had WMDs a decade and a half before trump was ever in office just so they could stop them from nationalizing their own oil. They've been calling Cuba an authoritarian dictatorship for like 75 years just for overthrowing the actual dictator the US installed. If the US says the sky is blue you should look out your window and check what's going on.

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u/rasa2013 29d ago

You're mixing together the very overtly political elements of the executive branch with the theoretically and formerly independent aspects of the federal bureaucracy.

Like basic datasets about factual information were generally reliable. Now, even basic factual reports and datasets are subject to very overt and heavy-handed political meddling.

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u/PhroneticReflex 29d ago

Exactly this. And it's that neutral administrative layer thats the part that's taken the biggest hit the last decade, and it's what's hurting us most.

Ironically the exact thing that conservatives hate is what made America strongest. Who knew? 

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u/VigilantMaumau 29d ago

Project 2025. Overhaul the administrative state with party loyalists.

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u/bnelson 29d ago

Like say, the CIA factbook. Eliminated. We. Need no facts.

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u/myyrkezaan 29d ago

Iran wanted to nationalize their oil in 1953 and US/UK orchestrated a coup.

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u/Spraypainthero965 29d ago

And just like with Cuba, America has treated them as villains ever since for not allowing American oligarchs to loot Iran's natural resources.

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u/Environmental-Ice319 Sep 22 '26

Been awhile since I agreed with mindblowing as a description. This really is. Lasting damage. They will never respect Obama. Will never respect themselves either.

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u/kickaguard 29d ago

Being 40 in the US and watching it all crumble is wild. Growing up you could legitimately just feel lucky you were born in the US even if we had some pretty fucked up shit our government was doing abroad. Now our healthcare is a joke. Our police are the enemy. Our government is openly bought and paid for. The class war is in full motion and the poors live paycheck to paycheck while the 1% doesn't look past the next quarter earnings. I'm doing ok but it won't last and nobody knows what will happen. There is no plan or stability. It's... Wild.

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u/Both-Subject-3674 29d ago

Turns out when you elect a pathological liar to the most powerful office in the world, he is going to destroy the faith in the US Government that fueled its dominance on the world stage for 75+ years.

Your turn, China, I guess.