Trump’s latest demand is straight out of the pages of ‘1984’

[phands]

The orange nazi finally overtly admits he wants only HIS world view to be the one people pay attention to....

In George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel 1984, the “final, most essential command” of the ruling totalitarian regime is “to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.”

On Tuesday, President Trump made that same request of his supporters.
Speaking to a Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) gathering in Kansas City, Trump implored his audience to forget about what they see and read — and instead just listen to him.

“Don’t believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news,” Trump said, pointing at reporters as the crowd broke out in boos. “Just remember, what you’re seeing and what you’re reading is not what’s happening.”​

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Suppose he would even understand if people showed up with protest signs that said "1984"?

 

[Jayjay]

Remember the interview Trump gave to the Sun? The one that he called "fake news" the day after, even though it reported his words exactly, and even published the tape to prove it?

I guess the Sun wasn't smart enough to realize that Trump didn't want accurate reporting, but reporting that portrays him in a good light.

 

[BH]

That's the problem with our country. Too many people do not want to know reality but only fantasy land. Trump is trash.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

1984

So did the fact of having very few words to choose from. Relative to our
own, the Newspeak vocabulary was tiny, and new ways of reducing it were
constantly being devised. Newspeak, indeed, differed from almost all
other languages in that its vocabulary grew smaller instead of larger
every year. Each reduction was a gain, since the smaller the area of
choice, the smaller the temptation to take thought. Ultimately it was
hoped to make articulate speech issue from the larynx without involving
the higher brain centers at all. This aim was frankly admitted in the
Newspeak word _duckspeak_, meaning "to quack like a duck." Like various
other words in the B vocabulary, _duckspeak_ was ambivalent in meaning.
Provided that the opinions which were quacked out were orthodox ones, it
implied nothing but praise, and when the _Times_ referred to one of the
orators of the Party as a _doubleplusgood duckspeaker_ it was paying a
warm and valued compliment.