After tens of thousands of Americans have died from the massive COVID-19 pandemic that the president failed to act promptly on when he first learned of the threat in November, Donald Trump is upset over media coverage. Americans are suffering in some form or another from the novel coronavirus that has brought our country to a standstill, but Trump thinks his feelings are more important.
In late March, as Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and congressional leaders were working to iron out differences in the socialist coronavirus stimulus package, Trump threw out a furious tweet over media coverage.
“I watch and listen to the Fake News, CNN, MSDNC, ABC, NBC, CBS, some of FOX (desperately & foolishly pleading to be politically correct), the @nytimes, & the @washingtonpost, and all I see is hatred of me at any cost,” he tweeted. “Don’t they understand that they are destroying themselves?”
I watch and listen to the Fake News, CNN, MSDNC, ABC, NBC, CBS, some of FOX (desperately & foolishly pleading to be politically correct), the @nytimes, & the @washingtonpost, and all I see is hatred of me at any cost. Don’t they understand that they are destroying themselves?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 23, 2020
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Republican pollster Frank Luntz noted that President Liar Pants has previously denied watching much TV and said he “seldom, if ever” watched CNN or MSNBC. Well, when Trump says something, usually the opposite is true.
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) March 23, 2020
On Sunday morning, Trump retweeted himself to target Matt Drudge’s right-wing site.
I gave up on Drudge (a really nice guy) long ago, as have many others. People are dropping off like flies! https://t.co/L77SXS2mE8
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 18, 2020
Also on Sunday, Trump who has used multiple pseudonyms in the past, retweeted a comment from late March blasting the media for using unnamed sources.
EVERGREEN —> Any reporter or outlet using half of a quote and refusing to use appropriate context is doing so maliciously.
— Erin Perrine (@ErinMPerrine) March 21, 2020
Things have gotten worse with Trump using the coronavirus task force daily briefings as MAGA rallies in which the former reality show star lashes out at the press. A new report concludes that Trump and his administration’s attack on the media have “dangerously undermined truth and consensus in a deeply divided country.”
Trump is unleashing angry tweets that, again, show him to be the most inept leader the U.S. has ever had, and all of his inadequacies are unfolding amid a pandemic.
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