Baker sounds extra like a fan gushing over a celeb than a journalist discussing a conspiracy theorist bigot with dictatorial aspirations.
President Donald Trump salutes throughout a parade commemorating the Military’s 250th anniversary, coinciding together with his 79th birthday on June 14 in Washington, as Secretary of the Military Daniel Driscoll, Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth, and first woman Melania Trump watch.
“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 stay by means of.
Right here’s some context on Baker’s purple prose: Trump’s most vital political victory got here in 2024 the place he gained the favored vote by 1.5% over former Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump misplaced the 2020 election by virtually 5 factors towards former President Joe Biden and misplaced the favored vote in 2016 towards former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Former President Barack Obama, the newest two-term president earlier than Trump, gained by over 7 factors in 2008 and practically 4 factors in 2012.
Even worse, Baker’s column comes after 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, had been shot useless in an obvious political assassination. State Sen. John Hoffman and his spouse Yvette had been additionally shot at their residence, however are anticipated to get better. Early reporting signifies the alleged shooter was a Trump fan who espoused related views to him opposing abortion and LGBTQ+ rights. The capturing follows years of Trump endorsing and inspiring 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 army parade on the streets of Washington, D.C. Whereas the president beforehand expressed envy at well-organized army parades in different nations, the D.C. occasion was a sparsely attended affair that didn’t even have the polish of a army parade held the identical day at Disney World.
However hundreds of 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 may 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 exhibits that the general public doesn’t purchase the lies—however the Occasions is just too busy cheering on and normalizing his administration to note.
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