The elitist media are wildly inconsistent on President Trump, except for one thing: the coverage has to be negative. So this week, it swung from "Trump's about to destroy Iranian civilization" to "Trump chickened out again" when they announced a ceasefire. Whichever direction Trump takes -- left or right, backward or forward -- it's always wrong.
CNN host Erin Burnett reflected the tone of Democrats in social media by flipping from outrage at Trump’s threats to destroy Iranian infrastructure to claiming he’s a coward when they announce a temporary ceasefire: “Trump has backed off. And there will be some who will call it, you know -- ‘TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out' -- which is making way too light of it. But it is also a truth, which is that he makes giant threats that he does not follow through on.”
MRC Video Senior Director Eric Scheiner and MRC Video lead content creator Brittany Hughes joined the show to discuss all things anti-Trump. Brittany focused this week (as she often does) on misreported narratives on mass deportation, for example a Mexican man who "died in ICE custody." It was ruled a suicide, but the media accounts make ICE sound responsible. There's also a horrific story of a Haitian immigrant in Florida who killed a woman by repeatedly using a hammer on her skull. That's the kind of story they skip.
The president put out a outrage-inducing Easter message on social media about Iran that had the F-bomb in it. Add to that a sarcastic use of "praise Allah" on Easter. But guess how many times Jake Tapper repeated Trump’s F-bomb quote on Easter? FIVE times…it’s the same way CNN said "s***-hole" 195 times in a 24-hour period when it was reported by Democrats that Trump described Third World countries that way.
But also in the first minutes of Easter Sunday, we had the "Weekend Update" segment on Saturday Night Live, where fake anchor Michael Che was joking about how Trump went to the Kennedy Center to see a play, and made the joke what’s the worst thing that could happen? That's an obvious reference to the Abe Lincoln assassination. CNN had no outrage for that.
Che ended up on our "Worst of the Week" ballot, in addition to Chuck Todd claiming that while some worry Iran is radical enough to use a nuclear weapon on us, we should be afraid of Trump, who might drop a nuclear bomb: "I could see him being that crazy." Then there was Bruce Springsteen on stage in Minneapolis saying America used to be "a beacon for hope and liberty," but it's now ruined by this "corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless, and treasonous administration." He suggested his side favored "the rule of law over lawlessness." That's just upside down, where the illegal aliens are following the rule of law and ICE agents are the "lawless" ones.
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