New York Times Reports Trademark Concern About Crazy Trump
The New York Times hounded Joe Biden out of running for reelection not by running the occasional long-form piece hinting at senility, but by repeating those public "questions" again and again. So while I guess it's good that Peter Baker does run the occasional story about the Mad King, the Times is not devoting the kind of repetition coverage that breaks through to the general public.
Here's the latest (gift link):
President Trump’s erratic behavior and extreme comments in recent days and weeks have turbocharged the crazy-like-a-fox-or-just-plain-crazy debate that has followed him on the national political stage for a decade.
Uh, wasn't that "crazy like a fox" theme just a right wing meme that the establishment press embraced like Harry Potter's Cloak of Invisibility?
A series of disjointed, hard-to-follow and sometimes-profane statements capped by his “a whole civilization will die tonight” threat to wipe Iran off the map last week and his head-spinning attack on the “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy” pope on Sunday night have left many with the impression of a deranged autocrat mad with power.