Thursday, December 27, 2018

EDITORIAL_ Donald Trump and the ungracious press

WASHINGTON EXAMINER  


EDITORIAL

Donald Trump and the ungracious press


by Washington Examiner
| December 27, 2018 09:12 PM


For a press that regularly laments President Trump’s lack of graciousness, you’d think newsrooms would try harder to show those virtues themselves.

Early Wednesday morning, the day after Christmas, the president and first lady Melania Trump arrived in Iraq, surprising American troops with a personal visit. The president was cheered and applauded as he took to the stage and spoke to service members stationed far from home. After his remarks, he shook hands, posed for selfies, and signed autographs for those who asked. It was a lovely episode, one that the troops clearly appreciated and enjoyed.

It would take a hard, graceless heart to scrounge for something to criticize in the president’s surprise visit. It’d take a conniving, cold partisan to go after the eager service members who asked the president to sign their red “Make America Great Again” trucker hats. Yet, that's exactly what a sizable portion of the news media did.

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READ MORE: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/donald-trump-and-the-ungracious-press

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Unsurprisingly, Cuomo was eaten alive on social media shortly after tweeting praise aimed at the president. Because that’s exactly the sort of thing that happens in the era of #Resisting. To suggest that Trump did something decent is to commit an act of apostasy. It will be punished mercilessly by true believers. Perhaps that’s why newsrooms are so loathe to give Trump credit where it’s due.

The press ought to listen to its own criticism of the president and learn a little decency.

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