{"id":42391,"date":"2019-08-05T11:41:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T18:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42391"},"modified":"2019-08-15T11:27:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T18:27:11","slug":"trump-to-the-media-flatter-me-more-or-the-killing-will-only-get-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42391","title":{"rendered":"Trump to the Media: Flatter Me More or the Killing ‘Will Only Get Worse’"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the first Monday since the tragic slaughter of at least twenty-nine innocent people (and dozens more wounded) in another weekend of gun violence, Donald Trump made an address to the nation that offered some prayers and consolation, but continued to avoid the real causes of these horrors, or any practical solutions. It was another meaningless exercise in platitudes and propaganda.<\/p>\n

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In the ten minute TelePrompter speech, Trump was typically devoid of compassion or anything that might be recognized as human empathy. However, he did manage to shift blame for the massacres to everything from video games to mental health, and – in a spectacular departure from rationality – to immigration. That last excuse was simply his insertion of a “poison pill”<\/em> to kill any congressional solution to the problem of mass shootings.<\/p>\n

There were a few morsels of routine speechifying thrown into the address. Such as Trump’s call for a unified front against hate, saying that “In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy.”<\/em> That was a good start, but he was still too chicken to identify white nationalist terrorism as a prime factor in these horrible crimes. Even though the FBI did so<\/a><\/strong> recently. Trump also spoke to another of his deflections, and defenses of the NRA, saying that “Mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun.”<\/em> Actually, it’s people who pull the triggers of guns they should never have been able to possess.<\/p>\n

But perhaps the most troubling remarks from the President came by way of Twitter, where he posted yet another dangerous, anti-Constitutional attack on the free press:<\/p>\n

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The Media has a big responsibility to life and safety in our Country. Fake News has contributed greatly to the anger and rage that has built up over many years. News coverage has got to start being fair, balanced and unbiased, or these terrible problems will only get worse!<\/p>\n

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n