The time for Donald Trump to hurt the world is quickly coming to an end
Donald Trump has been a media figure since the 1970s. Those who grew up in the New York metropolitan area during that time, or the 1980s, may remember widespread tabloid coverage of Trump and his marriages and business deals, for example, in the New York Post and the Daily News. Trump is a master media manipulator and seems to thrive on such attention.
Unfortunately, however, the mainstream media’s fascination with covering Donald Trump in a superficial, tabloid fashion have continued through all four years of Trump in the White House. Even worse, now that Trump has decisively lost the presidential election to Joe Biden, the media insist on continuing to cover Trump’s every utterance, tweet, golf round and tantrum. It’s enough already. Trump is a lame duck with just 51 days left in office, his power is waning every minute, and it’s time for the media to do what most Americans are already doing: move on from Donald Trump.
One of the latest examples of the media lavishing too much attention on Donald Trump’s whims and fancies is the idea that Trump might want to announce a 2024 run for president during a separate campaign event next January 20, during Joe Biden’s inauguration, instead of quietly and respectfully attending the ceremony, which the outgoing president always does. Whether or not Trump wants to hog the airtime on Inauguration Day, the media already are letting him hog the airtime now with this silly notion. That’s aside from the fact that the suggestion of Trump running for president again is so silly, given his noticeable physical and mental decline, often captured on video, over the past four years. By November 2024, Trump likely won’t even be able to get down a ramp to go to the bathroom without using a golf cart or a Hoveround motorized scooter. And none of that takes into account the fact that “Americans are suffering Trump fatigue” must be one of the world’s biggest understatements.
So please, New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, CBS News, ABC News, NBC News, Fox “News,” Politico, the Daily Beast and the other mainstream media, pull the needle of Trump addiction out of your arms and start to focus on things about which Americans care. After all, we still have something called a COVID pandemic.
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