In January 2018, the Democrats came out of a meeting with President Trump at the White House complaining that Trump used the term “s—thole countries” to describe poor nations who caused a lot of illegal immigration into America, like Haiti. We counted CNN saying the word “s—thole” 195 times in a single day to stoke outrage.
Back then, Jake Tapper gave a softball interview to comedian Conan O’Brien who made a special for TBS (same company) mocking Trump by going to Haiti and telling everyone what a beautiful place it was.
So it was interesting on Sunday when CNN State of the Union host Jake Tapper began lecturing Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on how much Haiti right now is a….well, don’t say it. But it would be cruel to send any Haitian immigrants back. Under President Biden, they were putting Haitians on planes and granting them amnesty before they landed. Mullin offered a classic response: "Is there a question in that?"
MRC Business Associate Editor Joseph Vazquez and our evening-news and Sunday-show specialist Jorge Bonilla reviewed this sorry scene, recalling that some liberals in 2018 said America was the "s---hole country" because Trump was running it. This matches somehow with Joy Reid winning our Worst Media Quote of the Week last week for claiming black people don't celebrate the Fourth of July.
Since Trump wanted the beautify the mall for the big national anniversary, the media mocked the return of algae in the Reflecting Pool between the Washington monuments. The Washington Post offered a sob story titled “Why Trump’s algae problem is much bigger than the Reflecting Pool.” Reporter Sarah Kaplan editorialized that Trump “has overlooked the real cause of unsightly — and often dangerous — algal blooms,” which of course was “pollution and climate change.”
Nicolle Wallace may be popular among MS NOW viewers, and that might be because she says remarkably untrue things that please the so-called progressives. On Friday’s Deadline: White House, she boasted about how Barack Obama is still much more popular than President Trump, and she uncorked several whoppers, like Trump has “literally muzzled” half the media, and Obama had “no scandals,” no algae in the Reflecting Pool, and no wars.
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