Last updated on June 19th, 2018 at 10:05 am
Donald Trump went after The New York Times this morning, embarking on yet another rant about the poor persecuted alpha male with a pair of tweets:
Remember when the failing @nytimes apologized to its subscribers, right after the election, because their coverage was so wrong. Now worse!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 29, 2017
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If the people of our great country could only see how viciously and inaccurately my administration is covered by certain media!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 29, 2017
What Donald Trump is referring to here is a lie he told back on November 13, 2016, in another tweet:
The @nytimes sent a letter to their subscribers apologizing for their BAD coverage of me. I wonder if it will change – doubt it?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 13, 2016
Of course, this never happened. The New York Times did not apologize to readers or tell them their coverage of Trump was “bad.”
In fact, as PolitiFact reports of the incident,
“A spokeswoman for the New York Times told PolitiFact: ‘We’re incredibly proud of our coverage of the 2016 campaign. There was no suggestion either in our note to staff, or the note to subscribers, that we were apologizing.'”
So no, Donald. We don’t remember. Because it never happened.
What has happened is that while the media has begun to actually report about Donald Trump‘s lies they have gone easy on him, often declining to use the word “lie” in favor of “false” or “inaccurate.”
The fact is, media coverage is far from “vicious” and inaccurate only in the sense that many media outlets are far too willing to normalize, even now, Trump‘s extremism.
We are left this morning with ‘President’ Trump repeating an already debunked lie about his coverage in the Times, actually lying about the Times lying about him.
Which is about what you would expect from a morning tweetstorm from Donald Trump, the most persecuted alpha male in the history of persecuted alpha males. Sad!
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
