Donald Trump’s reelection campaign launch this week was a textbook example of manufacturing an alternate reality, with an assist from his partner in propaganda, Rupert Murdoch’s right-wing rag the New York Post. Trump says coronavirus comeback underway: People are ‘starting to feel good’: President Trump invited The Post into the Oval Office on Monday for … Read more
I’m not sure whether Donald Trump is more Baghdad Bob, denying that there were any American tanks in Baghdad when they could be seen only several hundred meters away from the press conference where he was speaking, or George W. Bush staging his flight deck “mission accomplished” PR stunt after the initial invasion of Iraq, … Read more
60 Minutes on Sunday aired a report on the farm bailout program meant to compensate farmers for the damage Donald Trump’s trade war with China has done to their livelihood, and that was before the coronavirus pandemic hit disrupting food supply chains around the world. Family farmers, as opposed to the large agribusiness corporate conglomerates, … Read more
The Lincoln Project, the anti-Trump conservative group whose aim is to derail the president’s reelection campaign, has unleashed a devastating new ad that aims to be the mirror image of former President Ronald Reagan’s famous “Morning in America” ads. ‘Mourning in America’: GOP group unleashes devastating ad that hits Trump for making US ‘weaker, sicker, … Read more
Malignant narcissist Donald Trump got all nonplused and angry over the humiliating beatdown he took from all sides in the media for his utterly moronic — and dangerous — suggestion at Thursday’s “Daily Trump Show” that doctors should investigate whether injecting household cleaning supplies like bleach and Lysol into the body could kill the coronavirus … Read more