President Donald J. Trump's appearance at this year's Super Bowl featured President Caesar.
The state leader took his place at the Grand Arena, which included more than 127 million television audiences in a figurative way to host the biggest event of gladiator combat people. Fox cameras salute him during the national anthem, part of an increasingly fighting pageant of pre-match rituals, shots of service members and military overpasses.
He even had a Super Bowl ad. The Fox News spot in the game repeatedly featured a photo of Trump raising his fist after an attempt to assassinate him last summer.
Looking for a media spotlight is nothing new for Trump. However, in his second period there is a prominent tendency in the way he and his allies project an air of ubiquitousness, authority and invincibility, using images almost in imperial aesthetics.
On television news and social media, his immigration enforcement raids are packaged like a mini-reality TV show to flood viewers with images of relentless action. His signature ceremony is the playlet of the conquest of theatre. Even the inauguration portrait he smiled in 2017, he is now a Scaurus.
With Trump visiting the inauguration, it was clear at the arena show where Trump was cheered by the Maga crowd as he signed the executive order on his makeshift desk. The signature attitude speaks to Trump's vision of leadership, just like the text of the order.
The vitality of all this stage sculpture may have paid off Trump in his early votes. Despite differences of opinion about certain actions and proposals, the majority of respondents in the recent CBS News poll described him as “tough”, “energy” and “effective.” all.
But the new administration's most intense television effort was one that had no starring Trump at all. Miviriment is a program that embeds cameras in immigration and customs enforcement agencies and other institutions related to immigration enforcement raids. Bust and Ride Long involve local and national news reporters and former talk show host Dr. Phil McGrow.
“Obviously, I was interested in the presence of cameras,” said CBS News Major Garrett after accompanying on the New York City raid. “Some people call it the law enforcement of its performance, while others call it a way to spread the message and cause deterrence.”
The video transformed the administration's signature initiative into “cop” season. Like “cop,” a target is an object, not an object. What we know about them is what law enforcement wants us to know about them. Whatever arrested people say to the observer's questions, whatever they don't say, is presented as evidence against them.
The resulting visceral messages about the government's social media feed and the evening news were pursued and done by a tireless, muscular government. At a local news station in North Carolina, an embedded report on the pursuit of a man identified as Honduras National chases the forest, strolling in front of cameras as the man is arrested, and shots of his tied ankles close to the ice Walking to the elevator in the field office.
There are many things the video doesn't tell you. For example, the administration has given little information about the thousands of people captured in the attacks actually being one of the intended targets.
But the video speaks to the visual language that decades of police procedures and actions show, from “dragnets” to today. They portray agents of the shared perspective, forcing and cleaning the streets. With discussions between subtle reports and strong images, the photos win every time.
Still, there are limits to smooth production. Images of immigrant life-saving videos and government handouts are taking place in a massive rotation on Fox News, and on February 6, the channel could arrest any of the alleged targeted gang members. We aired a report on the unprecedented attack in Colorado. “There is no sugar coating. Embedded Fox Reporter Bill Melgin said:
The segment transformed into a platform for Trump's “border emperor,” Thomas Homan, accusing the leak of falling from the target of the attack, threatening the outcome. Fox anchor Harris Faulkner, who interviewed Homan, was shattered with footage of protesters using a megaphone to inform their rights to Spanish targets. “If they scream and help these people to let the bulls get away, how is it legal?” she asked.
Not all coverage is so kind and the administration has noticed this. Also, on February 6th, Trump's Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Kerr spoke about “Fox & Friends.” The FCC said it is investigating radio stations in San Francisco for live coverage of immigration enforcement measures. The operation was impaired.
With this warning, there was again subtext along with the text. This time we were aiming for the media. The show continues through punitive forces as needed.
