• Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    39·
    7 months ago

    Altermante headline, as found on CNN’s home page: Trump considers US expansion.

    The contents of the article are nothing new. I’m posting this to show a prime example of two things: The mainstream media’s painting of coverage favorable to Trump in order to avoid his wrath and the political and legal retribution that comes with it, and the media’s sanewashing and normalizing of Trump’s ramblings.

    Wanting to take Panama by force, trade Puerto Rico for Greenland in order to get rid of the brown people, and threatening to annex Canada in order to piss off Trudeau isn’t “teasing” or “considering US expansion”. It’s the inane ramblings of a dementia patient off their meds, and should be being treated by the media about as seriously as saying he’s going to use Space Force to take Jupiter back from King George Jetson. The only proper response to this should be to pat him on the head and tell him it’s OK as they quietly escort him back to his room.

    • orclev@lemmy.world
      91·
      7 months ago

      Also we all know Trump isn’t going to do shit. He constantly says crazy shit that has no hope of ever becoming a reality all the time. The only thing that should be making headlines at this point are things he’s actually done, not just rambled about one time in a brain fart.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 months ago

      Teasing? Considering? He was pretty straightforward about saying they must be brought under US control.

  • athairmor@lemmy.world
    12·
    7 months ago

    I wonder what really bad stuff they are actually up to. This sounds like a blustery distraction.

    • hypna@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 months ago

      The media keeps talking about how they’ve learned their lesson about how to report on Trump; that they’re not going to get spun up about all the noise he makes; that they’re not going to let him switch the story every week; that they’re going to focus on the real, material things that are going on.

      Well here we are again, writing deeply concerned pieces about a handful of tweets (or whatever they’re called in Trump land). And here Lemmy is upvoting them.

      Trump is a troll. Don’t feed the trolls.

      • BMTea@lemmy.world
        21·
        7 months ago

        The liquidation of the nation of Palestine (and possibly extermination of its people), ending free speech in universities, counterproductive brinksmanship with China, imposing backwards education on the nation’s children etc.