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When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.

Gene Weingarten

Donald Trump’s humor is hostile to a fault.
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Faults Hostile Trump
I think Trump is simply inept, incapable of rescuing himself.
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Incapable Thinking Trump
Making stuff up is the worst thing a journalist can do. Plagiarizing is the second worst.
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Journalist Stuff Worst
Being “Jewish” is way stronger culturally than it is religiously.
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Religiously Stronger Way
My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
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Black Local Middle School
I was possessing heroin in fairly large quantities in New York City during the years of the draconian Rockefeller Drug Laws. Had I been busted, I would have faced mandatory life in prison. I don’t think many white kids walked, either. I knew one who got 15 years for pot.
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Drug Kids Thinking
I don’t see a point in advertising my marital status when men don’t. Completely ridiculous.
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Advertising Men Ridiculous
I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
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Agony Reality Thinking
You know, I am not a particular Kennedy apologist or an awed fan – I was 12 when he was murdered – but I have discussed Kennedy with historians. For his incredibly short tenure, he was a very important president.
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Soul Thinking War
I think I might prefer women without makeup. Though I don’t really know, because I am not good at identifying makeup.
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Eye Girl Good Makeup Women
The verb “Garland” should be created. It would mean to unfairly put a stinking albatross around someone’s neck, to make him unemployable.
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Albatross Mean Verbs
Reporters are not merely recording devices that take down what people say and repeat it in print; we are expected to use our knowledge and experience both for triage – deciding what’s important to cover and what isn’t – and for contextualizing, analyzing and such.
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Important People Use
We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we’ll be okay.
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Believe Monster People
Shakespeare was such a splendid vulgarian.
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People Splendid Vulgarian
The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it’s hard. If you think it’s not hard, you’re not doing it right.
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One Thing Thinking Writing
Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.
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People Reason Way

When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.

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