During a rambling and largely nonsensical presser in Los Angeles on Friday, Trump constantly tripped over himself, outright rejecting important questions from reporters while making absurd claims, such as the fact that the country was “perfect” in January 2021.
In one portion of his speech, Trump badly botched the name of his opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris, by referring to her as “Comrade Howard” while shaking his head. He also referred to Harris as a “radical left Marxist Communist fascist,” an ideological combination that is technically impossible, and attacked her for her “woman-made destruction.”
Shortly after the speech ended, Trump had one final thought to share, which he posted in brief on Truth Social: “#.” At the time of publication, the post had more than 2,700 likes.
I won’t necessarily say it’s that.
There are two main crowds when it comes to Trump coverage:
- Why give airtime to those lies and nonsense?
- Why aren’t you covering his lies and nonsense?
Literally no way to make both of those groups happy, lol.
When it’s just him spouting off lies, conspiracies, and hate, I say give him as little coverage as possible. The people voting for him don’t care or want that, and the “undecideds” at this point are either just attention-seekers or too ignorant for any additional coverage to get through their thick skulls.
The only people who don’t know what Trump’s about by now would have to have been cryogenically frozen or in a coma since 2014, and I don’t think that’s a large enough voting demographic to really worry about.
Option 1 is like having a statue of Hitler in a town square and treating it like any other honorary statue.
Option 2 is hiding Hitler completely and never mentioning his existence, even though he is currently doing terrible things.
There is a third option, write an article about how incoherent he is while using what he said as examples and not just giving him a platform with ‘he said…’ and no context. Like how museums handle horrible subjects by giving them context. People tend to worry that pointing out his incoherence would be editoralizing or some excuse to fall back to 1 or 2, but it isn’t. He is clearly spouting incoherent word salad beyond prior years and that is newsworty.
That’s…not wrong. And I see where you’re coming from.
But they’d end up spending 24/7 coverage just debunking that shit because it’s coming out like a fire hose every time he’s on camera or taking a shit (because what he craps out on social media also gets news coverage).
I can’t tell you how much I’m looking forward to the day the news isn’t dominated by this orange turd (except maybe coverage of his sentencing or something) Mid 2021 was kind of a preview of that, but once our 3 year election cycle kicked back in, there he was again all day, every day.
Maybe they could do a weekly Trump bullshit fact check wrap up instead or something?
Regardless, I agree with them not airing the live feed/coverage, but I can agree with you that the overall behavior should be highlighted in some way.
They don’t need to debunk everything he says though, just hit the major points and extrapolate from there.
I mean, they crucified Biden for a single debate performance that was likely the result of jet lag and illness, why can’t they do that to someone who deserves it by having similar performances every single day?
Agreed that the coverage doesn’t need to be daily.
