Terminal Trump derangement syndrome

 

 

Like a lot of people, I had hoped that after the election result of 2016, completely unforeseen by the media, the pollsters and even the bookies, the media, who had largely acted as chaperones and megaphones for Hillary Clinton, would stop, pause, and reflect on how they could possibly have done their jobs so badly.

 

How wrong I was. If anything, all signs suggest that the media has doubled down on their dishonesty and completely partisan ‘reporting’.

 

On Trump, the media and their Democratic accomplices have moved from a mild case of Trump derangement syndrome during the Republican Primaries to now a terminal version of it. Not only do they not care about hiding their bias and hatred for the man, they have gone around the bend to indulge in the most conspiratorial and inept attacks on the sitting President.

 

This is hardly to say that Trump is perfect – the man has many, many flaws and he incessantly shows these to the public. But Trump has always been Trump, a billionaire businessman who has been in the media eye for decades. However, it seems suddenly, the media has had an epiphany on who he ‘really is’ only after he got into the White House.

 

Just with Trump’s recent diagnosis of COVID-19, we’ve had all manner of conspiracies pushed out by pundits across the liberal media machine. We’ve had claims by MSNBC’s Joy Reid and others that Trump faked the coronavirus diagnosis to gain sympathy. We’ve had senior CNN analyst Joe Johns suggesting Trump is sicker than he is letting on.

 

Elsewhere, senior Democrats like Joe Biden, who compared Trump to Nazi propagandist Goebbels, and Nancy Pelosi, who likened federal law enforcement used by the Trump administration to protect a federal courthouse from rioters in Portland ‘Stormtroopers’, grudgingly and no doubt resentfully wished him well.

 

Other Democrats, unbridled by the spotlight but none the wiser for it, like Zara Rahim, former Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama staffer, tweeted that she “hope he dies”. A former staffer for Democrat Elizabeth Warren, Max Berger, hyperventilated “Trump did this to himself. He inflicted this same misfortune upon millions of others. He’s a corrupt, white supremacist criminal who’s responsible for more American deaths than 9/11 and the wars in Vietnam, Korea, Iraq and WWI combined.” He obviously forgot to add eugenicist and pedophile in his litany. 

 

When Trump, in his mid-70’s, overweight and male, all risk factors for the coronavirus, shook it off after a mere three days, much to the chagrin of Ms Rahim and Mr Berger, new rounds of pearl-clutching began.

 

When Trump rode around in a car to greet his supporters who were camping outside the hospital, CNBC screeched that he is endangering the lives of secret service members. When Trump returned to the White House and took off his mask on the balcony for a photo-op, miles from anyone, CNN host John Berman swooned that “he’s going to kill people!” This is the same media that has been silent on the daily riots and looting under the guise of protest by tens of thousands of people around the country for months.

 

Nancy Pelosi, not to be outdone, suggested that White House staff should stage an “intervention”, because in her medical opinion, something was “wrong” with Trump after the virus. While the octogenarian Pelosi and the 78 year old Biden are never questioned by the media about their frequent erratic displays of subnormal behaviors.

 

The media has forgone all self-respect in the desperate attempt to smear Trump with an ‘ism’, and the many baseless charges radiate out to those around Trump. The new Supreme Court Justice nominee, Amy Coney Barrett, has received some of this mud being slung by the rabid media.

 

Barrett had received a ‘well qualified’ rating from a substantial majority of the ABA Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary. She has five biological children, one of whom has Down syndrome, and two adopted children from Haiti, the younger of whom she and her husband adopted after the devastating Haitian earthquake in 2010. If nothing else, she exemplifies the modern woman who has managed to balance what must be a demanding home life with stellar achievements in her chosen vocation.

 

Yet, Ibram Kendi, race hustler and darling of the media, saw fit to suggest that she somehow is a ‘white colonizer’ for adopting two black children. And despite all her achievements, people dressed in the outfit of the women from the by now highly clichéd Handmaid’s Tale protested outside Capitol Hill to oppose this high-achieving woman from attaining the highest rank in the US judicial system.

 

Trump himself of course had the best for himself. When the plot to kidnap Governor Whitmer of Michigan was uncovered, Whitmer accused Trump of encouraging the would-be kidnappers. Except a video soon surfaced of one of the accused, with an anarchy flag behind him, stating that Trump is “a tyrant” and an “enemy”.

 

All these lies and spin and mental gymnastics by the media and the Democrats in the last few weeks alone. With a media this terminally ill with the Trump derangement syndrome, the outcome of the election is up for anyone’s guess. But what's not up for speculation is the deterioration of the Republic at the hands of 'journalists' who has more degrees than sense, and less experience than tweets.