President Victim Complex strikes again. About 100,000 Americans are hospitalized with COVID-19 this weekend, and last week, the virus was the leading cause of death in the United States, surpassing heart disease, three types of cancer, and COPD. What’s Donald Trump doing this weekend? On Sunday afternoon, he rushed to Twitter to… whine about Fox News. To be clear: thousands of American deaths from COVID-19 seem imminent, with no recent substantive drop-off in cases and hospitals struggling to keep up with local needs across the country. As this crisis rages, millions of Americans remain unemployed — and through the chaos, Trump is tweeting self-obsessed complaints about television coverage that he doesn’t like.
This pathetic self-obsession is a disgrace to the United States of America, and those in power who are enabling the president’s behavior are complicit in the chaos. Trump tweeted the following message:
‘@FoxNews daytime is not watchable. In a class with CNN & MSDNC. Check out @OANN , @newsmax and others that are picking up the slack. Even a boring football game, kneeling and all, is better!’
.@FoxNews daytime is not watchable. In a class with CNN & MSDNC. Check out @OANN, @newsmax and others that are picking up the slack. Even a boring football game, kneeling and all, is better!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2020
To be clear: Fox News isn’t even that tough on Trump and his allies! The traditionally conservative network frequently gives platforms to Trump and his allies from which they can spread their nonsense. Just this weekend, Trump backer Rudy Giuliani — who’s been helping lead Trump’s post-election legal fight — appeared on the Fox program Sunday Morning Futures, where he insisted, with no systematic pushback from host Maria Bartiromo, that a centrally planned Democratic conspiracy to rig the election for Biden unfolded during the recent presidential race. This conspiracy, he said, included a middle-of-the-night post-election delivery of 100,000 “phony” ballots to a ballot-tabulation center in Detroit. These claims are pie-in-the-sky nonsense! Fox gave them a platform.
On Sunday, Trump also insisted that he “WON THE ELECTION, BIG,” which is simply not true. Trump’s allies keep presenting affidavits from supposed fraud witnesses, but affidavits from people who don’t know what they’re talking about simply do not equal legitimate evidence. Trump and his allies have lost court case after court case all around the country.
…I WON THE ELECTION, BIG. https://t.co/oFF4uzNBpe
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 6, 2020
Check out Twitter’s response to Trump below:
