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Eugene Robinson: Tune out Trump’s propaganda machine

Washington • George W. Bush once said that to get a message across you had to repeat it over and over, “to kind of catapult the propaganda.” Donald Trump must have been paying attention.

I predict this will be a summer of nonstop, shameless propaganda from Trump and his minions. It will be clumsy, ridiculous and pathetic — but don't ignore it. Call it out. Laugh at it. Recognize it for what it is: a sign not of strength but of fear.

Last week, in the White House, we saw a spectacle that would have embarrassed even Trump’s cult-of-personality role model, Kim Jong Un.