Wag The Dag, Trump American Apprentice Style

"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history." ~ George Orwell

"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state." ~ Noam Chomsky

"The media's the most powerful entity on Earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses." ~ Malcolm X

There are so much lies from politicians...

Do you feel like the truth is getting harder to pin down?

Every time a real scandal brews or a crisis begins to surface, something strange happens: the headlines shift. Suddenly, your feed is flooded with celebrity drama, bombing of Iran, American tariffs against the world, Epstein files that are closely linked to President Trump, a viral controversy, or breaking news from a distant conflict you hadn’t heard about the day before. At first, it feels random, but eventually, you start to notice the pattern, and it doesn’t feel like coincidence. It feels like A plan drama script.

Welcome to the Wag the Dog America, Apprentice Style.

It’s not a single person pulling the strings, but a system, an ecosystem of media outlets, influencers, politicians from Trump's cabinet and the Congress from both parties funded by wealthy individuals and oligarchs, and platforms, all working (intentionally or not) to distract, distort, and direct your attention away from what actually matters. Emotional triggers like fear, outrage, and nationalism are the tools. What gets buried beneath the noise? Often, the truth.

You see dissenters mocked, experts sidelined, and your own instincts dulled by the sheer volume of content. Scroll long enough, and it’s easy to forget what you were even angry, or curious, about in the first place.

Are we living a diversionary foreign policy or a diversionary war?

The Wag the Dog Machine keeps spinning. The only way out, start asking who’s writing the script, before we all forget there ever was one.

Wag the Dog, captures the cynical nature of the act, the more formal terms of diversionary foreign policy to the "rally 'round the flag" effect, agenda, and manufacturing consent for understanding this powerful tool of political manipulation, especially under an authoritarian leader.