This entry is not so much about Trump, but about one of his biggest enablers, the national news media. And (spoiler), they're still HORRIFICALLY favoring Trump in all their news coverage.
The most common example I bring up about the mind-numbing favoritism the national news media has with Trump is his age and competency. The national news media PROUDLY ran Joe Biden out of the Presidential race last year, yet a nearly equally elderly man who is clearly FAR MORE mentally unfit for office doesn't get a peep of outrage about his presidency.
How about another one? Trump is not negotiating trade deals with the UK and China. He can't. Only Congress can formalize a trade deal with a foreign country. What Trump is doing is (at best) handshake deals about a vague framework of a future trade agreement, which may or may not come to fruition. That is a LONG way away from a "trade deal."
But yet the national news media reports his actions as a "Trade deal," something the BBC pointed out was not true. This is a BASIC fact check, and yet the national news media allows the lie to be pushed without even a simple, mild clarification.
What has always been the more heinous element of the national news media's behavior is how they go after a Democrat for the same statement. Imagine if Joe Biden had said, "I've just made a trade deal with the UK." The national news media would rush out to counterpoint (AND educate) about how Biden did no such thing. Then they'd run with the 'mental decline' narrative on Biden, the same one they loved going with last July. "Biden thinks he's making trade deals! Clearly, he's mentally unfit for office!"
The national news media not only enable Trump, whether out of fear, orders, or compliance, but they present an intentional viciousness when it comes to traditional coverage of Democrats, constantly vilifying them with hearsay, hypotheticals, and zero flexibility, ALWAYS presenting the negative narrative.
One extremist far left protestor presents an outrageous statement on policy at a rally, and suddenly, it's "EVERY Democrat is on board with this new policy from the extreme left." Meanwhile, at least a third of Trump's staff are undeniable racists and Nazis, but the national news media still refuses to cover the CLEAR infiltration of the Republican Party, making excuse after excuse on why they can't label MAGA fairly.
The national news media would complain about Joe Biden for ONLY giving them an hour-long interview as "Biden Administration abuses the media." Meanwhile, Trump could round them up and start shipping them to his El Salvadoran Gulag, and they'd probably insist, "We deserved this."
Not only has the national news media not gotten better from last Fall. They've gotten monumentally worse. Their inexcusable failure to properly cover Trump, himself, his lies, his agenda, and the consequences of it all will cost lives, if it hasn't already.
For the record, I read the Guardian and the BBC for national news.
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