If a presidency fall in the forest, does it have to make a sound?
Journalists: Leave your chairs empty in the White House press briefing room.
There has been more than enough coverage of the Trump-estuous toddler masquerading as presidential. Bullies and bigots hunger for attention. It’s Donald Trump’s biggest success.
He’s been extolled or excoriated, psychoanalyzed, politically dissected, trounced over unfulfilled promises, and called out on prevarications. The media have put his every tweet, rant, and crumb of disinformation on record. This contributes to the brainwashing of what can only be called his cult following, who are fueled by his continuing presence in the news.
Stop. Please. Leave him to rant alone, like one would a 4-year-old, sent to his room until he can behave and rejoin the adults.
No more investigative decoding of his moral imperviousness, his ineptitude, his speciousness, his national and international abominations. The media’s analytical prowess and journalistic courage are spun, by the Trumplicans who bow to him, as vicious and vain attacks on their idol. This media attention helps him build his wall—between red and blue states, between the United States and its allies, between caring for the planet and destroying it.
We’ve heard enough of Trump’s vitriol, mendacity, and name-calling. We must focus on healing our country, on taking care of our wounded, on reducing the impact of our national trauma and utter disgrace, on restoring trust in justice for all.
Just let him GIP (golf In peace).
Lisa Friedlander
Tewksbury
