Media can’t be objective about Trump
KAMLOOPS — Almost everything Donald Trump says and does is so utterly loathsome to me that I fear I’ve lost all sense of objectivity about the man. And that is clearly what has happened with the major mainstream media as well.
In the wake of the abhorrent racist terror in Charlottesville, Trump has shown himself incapable of saying the right thing at the right time. Sometimes I think he actually means well, at least during fleeting moments, but has no idea of how to go about showing it and saying it.
There are kernels of logic buried deep in his objectionable rhetoric about Charlottesville. He rightfully, though belatedly, has condemned neo-Nazis and white supremacists, including the KKK. But then he insisted on placing that condemnation in the context of both “sides” — left and right — needing to shoulder some of the blame for the violence and the death of social justice activist Heather Heyer when she was struck by a car driven by a white supremacist.
Before even discussing Trump’s misdirected rhetoric, we should ask ourselves three things: