Kind of ridiculous I got a notification on my phone from both NYT and WP about this happening.
People need to stop acting with so much indignation at everything he says. We already know he is a tard and at this point anyone who plays into it is feeding the troll and distraction.
Besides I think most journalists and personalities who are critical of Trump should accept this as a given now. Don't cry foul if this is the game you signed up for.
Not only that, but most journalists/personalities feed into this precisely because of the ratings etc.
They need to be hammering him on the fact that he's been mobbed up for 40 years; probably sold his soul to Deutche Bank and the Russians; is flouting every possible anti corruption federal statute. If him being caught on tape talking about grabbing chicks by the puzzy barely moved the needle, what makes them think that him shytting on two of the most smug personalities on TV today will matter?
There are two groups of people that make a fuss out of shyt like this (for different reasons):
1. Media personalities/politicians etc = they see one of them being attacked and are personally offended and see this as an opportunity to "rise above" and distinguish themselves as being "adults", and it definitely helps drive ratings
2. Liberals/other people opposed to Trump = these are the people that mistakenly believe that THIS is the final insult that will cause people to turn against Trump wholesale, not understanding that whenever Trump is in a tiff with another journalist/media figure, he's looked at as "fighting back" against an institution that is just as unpopular as he. We end up looking so silly pulling out all the stops for Joe and Mika - who I will repeat helped "normalize" Trump just as much as any other mainstream personalities during the primaries (until it was too late).
Let me remind yall that Joe and Mika held a "town hall" with Trump full of softball questions in February 2016, DIRECTLY opposite of a CNN townhall with all other major GOP candidates. Nothing but an attempt to win the ratings game.
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