The New York Occasions’ chief White Home correspondent Peter Baker penned a “news analysis” on Monday that goes on at size about “The Age of Trump.” The cringe-worthy column, meant to coincide with the 10-year anniversary of Donald Trump first coming into the Republican presidential race by maligning Mexican folks as rapists, comes because the nation continues to take care of the fallout from his time in workplace—together with rampant crime, numerous deaths, and rising authoritarianism.
Baker sounds extra like a fan gushing over a star than a journalist discussing a conspiracy theorist bigot with dictatorial aspirations.
“Ten years of jaw-dropping, woke-busting, scandal-defying, status quo-smashing politics that have transformed America for good or ill in profoundly fundamental ways” is how this “journalist” describes the last decade of hell that Individuals have been pressured to dwell by way of.
Sure, that’s prose from a column in The New York Occasions, not a melodramatic monologue from Trump superfan Sean Hannity on Fox Information. Whereas Baker concedes that Trump is unpopular, he describes pro-MAGA voters as “the most consequential political force of modern times, rewriting all of the rules along the way.”
Right here’s some context on Baker’s purple prose: Trump’s most vital political victory got here in 2024 the place he received the favored vote by 1.5% over former Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump misplaced the 2020 election by virtually 5 factors in opposition to former President Joe Biden and misplaced the favored vote in 2016 in opposition to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Former President Barack Obama, the latest two-term president earlier than Trump, received by over 7 factors in 2008 and practically 4 factors in 2012.
Even worse, Baker’s column comes after yet one more bloody weekend throughout a Trump presidency, to not be confused with the regular succession of bloody weekends that occurred throughout his first time period as COVID-19 ravaged the nation and he pushed quack medication and anti-Chinese language racism.
On Sunday, Minnesota Home Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, have been shot useless in an obvious political assassination. State Sen. John Hoffman and his spouse Yvette have been additionally shot at their house, however are anticipated to get well. Early reporting signifies the alleged shooter was a Trump fan who espoused comparable views to him opposing abortion and LGBTQ+ rights. The capturing follows years of Trump endorsing and encouraging political violence—together with the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol that he incited.
On the identical day the killings occurred, Trump was indulging in one other fantasy of his, presiding over a navy parade on the streets of Washington, D.C. Whereas the president beforehand expressed envy at well-organized navy parades in different nations, the D.C. occasion was a sparsely attended affair that didn’t even have the polish of a navy parade held the identical day at Disney World.
However thousands and thousands of Individuals turned out on the exact same day to protest Trump and his lackeys like Vice President JD Vance, Home Speaker Mike Johnson, and billionaire benefactor Elon Musk at “No King” protests throughout the nation. Unsurprisingly, the Occasions might solely muster a print headline noting “thousands” had marched.
That is an ongoing sample on the Occasions. The writers there have veered from a cringe-inducing overview of Trump’s presidential portrait (they claimed he was “smizing,” Tyra Banks-style) to uncritically regurgitating his spin on taxes to presenting an apparent political operative as a easy man-on-the-street Black Trump supporter.
The previous 10 years have seen the mainstream media making an attempt time and again to normalize Trump regardless of all his apparent abnormalities, and the Occasions has led the cost. Trump is unpopular, which reveals that the general public doesn’t purchase the lies—however the Occasions is simply too busy cheering on and normalizing his administration to note.
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