Posted on 06/08/2019 6:27:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In the main, the American media do not think highly of our current president.
This matters. Whether they admit it or not, their personal views shape their reportage. They regard him as a pretender to the throne, an accidental occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue who has done more to discredit his office than most any of his predecessors. In their eyes, he's a bombastic boor and a bumbler whose reckless disregard for the dignity of his office has cheapened the nation in the eyes of the world.
Not everyone holds that opinion. A goodly number of his supporters probably don't give a swivel-eyed tinker's dam, for example, about how he's seen in Europe. That's there and we're here. Yet in the world of statecraft, such things are important—which is why his just-concluded trip to the United Kingdom and France to mark the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings is so important.
From almost all accounts, Trump acquitted himself well. An early spat with London Mayor Sadiq Khan, which had Khan calling the president a "poster boy" for the far right and Trump calling the mayor "a stone-cold loser," evolved into nothingness. Likewise, the appearance from across the Atlantic of a giant, inflatable "Baby Trump"—thought by some to be an embarrassment to the American leader—ended up something of a fizzle, especially after a pro-Trump supporter poked it with a sharp object, apparently causing it to deflate temporarily.
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No, the media has grown into their jobs and are now giving him the credit he has always deserved.
That is true. Best career for the incompetent = politics.
Partisan media shill Peter Roff, swilling it out in Newsweek. Thanks 2ndDivisionVet.
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