Day 199: The Hypocrisy of Trump Yelling “Fake News”

Donald Trump claims he doesn’t trust certain media outlets and, therefore, you shouldn’t either. He swears that they lie to push an anti-Trump agenda. That they don’t have all the facts. That they rely on unnamed sources to formulate narratives. That they forward crazy conspiracy theories about Russia and collusion and election hacking.

Breaking news, right?

His missives are painfully repetitive, and generally at the same targets.

The New York Times and The Washington Post — though it’s basically anyone not named Fox News — are “Fake News,” “failing” and “the enemy of the American people.” Some of those very words were uttered in the last few weeks.

But look who was doing some tweeting yesterday and the familiar source cited.

And last month, where did the White House place an op-ed — a “must read” — written by Marc Short, assistant to Trump for White House legislative affairs, and Brian Blase, a special assistant to Trump for the National Economic Council?

Aha! So you’ll blast the Times and the Post at random intervals, but you’ll also sit down for a far-reaching, rambling, borderline incoherent, on-the-record interview with the former, and have your team write a piece thrusting health care policy ideas in the latter? And, of course, you’ll retweet even the faintest bits of praise of your administration from whoever and pretend no one will notice the hypocrisy?

Got it.

199 days in, 1263 to go

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