The saga of President Donald Trump’s belligerence is continuing this week. An anonymous top official has revealed via The New York Times that they — and others! — inside the White House “are working diligently from within to frustrate parts of his agenda and his worst inclinations.”
Predictably, in response, the public face of the Trump administration is freaking out. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has now issued her own scathing response, resorting to name-calling and asserting that whoever wrote the piece should resign.
She began by attacking The Times itself, explaining:
‘We are disappointed, but not surprised, that the paper chose to publish this pathetic, reckless, and selfish op-ed. This is a new low for the so-called “paper of record,” and it should issue an apology, just as it did after the election for its disastrous coverage of the Trump campaign.’
Read below.
Response to anonymous @nytimes op-ed. pic.twitter.com/RIOaXhyg1N
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) September 5, 2018
First of all, for the umpteenth time, The Times never apologized for their 2016 election coverage. They simply acknowledged that they missed some of the now president’s base of support that they could have covered — there’s a big difference.
On top of this issue, the Trump administration’s continued insistence that the press should air specifically and intentionally positive stories of the White House — and little to nothing else — just flatly doesn’t match up to the reality of the United States. Sanders seems to have hoped that a major media organization — whose mission is to spread news — would have simply dismissed a request from a high ranking White House official to get their views published anonymously.
That’s just not the way it works these days. Neither Sanders nor Trump gets to petulantly get the national media to only run stories that highlight their side of the story — and that desire inside the White House is among the issue the anonymous official writing in The Times cited. They bemoaned the fact that the president “was elected as a Republican… [but] shows little affinity for ideals long espoused by conservatives: free minds, free markets, and free people… [and] has attacked them outright.”
Sanders wasn’t finished, though — as mentioned, she asserted that whoever wrote the piece in the first place was a “coward” who should resign.
First, she praised the president with some conventionally Trump-ian and extreme language, quipping:
‘President Trump has laid out a bold and ambitious agenda. Every day since taking office, he has fulfilled the promises he made. His accomplishments in less than two years have been astounding.’
In that portion of her remarks, Sanders bravely intertwines an attempt at fact with blatant opinion as if she missed grade school grammar and logic.
She went on:
‘The individual behind this piece has chosen to deceive, rather than support, the duly elected President of the United States. He is not putting country first, but putting himself and his ego above the will of the American people. He should do the right thing and resign.’
Again, Hillary Clinton got millions more votes than Donald Trump in the 2016 election, so if we’re talking about the overall will of the American people, it’s that the belligerent businessman who’s currently in the White House abandon his position and let Clinton take over.
Sanders and the rest of the Trump team are hardly about to accept that line of reasoning, though. Instead, they just keep angrily digging into their positions.
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