{"id":9032,"date":"2024-03-22T20:04:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T03:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=9032"},"modified":"2024-03-22T20:04:21","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T03:04:21","slug":"pepe-trump-still-croaking-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=9032","title":{"rendered":"Pepe Trump Still Croaking  Fake News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Way back on July 7, 2017, during TFG&#8217;s first term, we posted a photo-toon highlighting<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" the twice impeached former American CEO\/Dictator's war on truth (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=5559\" target=\"_blank\"> the twice impeached former American CEO\/Dictator&#8217;s war on truth<\/a>. Trump openly called everything the press reported as &#8216;fake news&#8217; unless of course it was complimentary. Back then, the QAnon weirdos and MAGA Morons were just coming out of the woodwork and these specimens mostly watched Fox News, a.k.a. the Republican Propaganda Network. Now the number of conservative media outlets have multiplied and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/08\/21\/poll-trump-voters-trust\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"more and more of the sheeple in the MAGA movement ignore any information unless it comes from the mouth of the orange skinned megalomaniac man child (opens in a new tab)\">more and more of the sheeple in the MAGA movement ignore any information unless it comes from the mouth of the orange skinned megalomaniac man child<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like we said back in 2017,  <strong>Trump\u2019s war on the media is insidious and incredibly dangerous for a free society. Freedom of the press is one of the cornerstones of our democracy.<\/strong> But Trump has made no secret that he wants to be a dictator like his man crush Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. And with that desire comes the flak generator of conservative media outlets and unregulated social media sites like Twitter and Facebook spreading lies,  misinformation and propaganda so successfully, it&#8217;s become a full time job for an average citizen just to determine the truth. <strong>So what is the truth? According to Trump, it&#8217;s anything he says it is.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s a repost of our photo-toon from July 7, 2017. We think the flabby green &#8216;Pepe&#8217; (instead of orange) skin on his saggy ass jowls are pretty appropriate for this croaking bag of goo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"650\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pepetrumpfakenewssource.jpg\" alt=\"When you want fake news, who you gonna call? PEPE TRUMP!!!\" class=\"wp-image-5562\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pepetrumpfakenewssource.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/pepetrumpfakenewssource-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>When you want fake news, who you gonna call? PEPE TRUMP!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back on July 7, 2017, during TFG&#8217;s first term, we posted a photo-toon highlighting the twice impeached former American CEO\/Dictator&#8217;s war on truth. Trump openly called everything the press reported as &#8216;fake news&#8217; unless of course it was complimentary. Back then, the QAnon weirdos and MAGA Morons were just coming out of the woodwork &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/?p=9032\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pepe Trump Still Croaking  Fake News&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,61,2487,60,2320,8,68,85,963,3,2307,198],"tags":[1575,74,73,252,22,20,1899,27,1552,1585,914,915,4,1461,1567,1433,9,663,2143,2144,199,1770,1019,2506,98,596,296,2250,1657,47,48,2332,694],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9032"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9038,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9032\/revisions\/9038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bilgebucket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}