Other issues
The Times suggests Trump’s imbecilic tweeting may be an intentional diversionary tactic.
But even as Mr. Trump’s transition team appeared eager to embrace a more disciplined approach to the process of building out his administration, the president-elect’s Twitter complaints about “Hamilton” and “Saturday Night Live” provided a distraction.
That may have been the intention. Mr. Trump’s Twitter posts diverted attention from other issues, including a $25 million settlement in a lawsuit against Trump University, concerns about conflicts of interest involving the president-elect’s business dealings, and questions about the propriety of potentially appointing his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to a White House post.
Not around here they didn’t. I posted about both.
That’s the thing about Trump, as I keep saying – he’s so horrible on so many fronts, it’s very difficult to keep track of them all. But it’s not impossible. His childish tweets aren’t going to prevent me from pointing out his fraud and corruption and nepotism, along with his racism and misogyny and fascism.
He may succeed in trashing everything, but we will keep the records.
Well, now that they’ve identified the tactic, maybe the NY Times could — and I realise that this may be a bit out there and radical — ignore the tweets and report the other stuff, rather than say, de-emphasising it (in stark contradistinction to their coverage of Clinto email rumours). Or is that a bit too much like journalism and hard work?
They could just have a “Stupid tweets from the Office of the President” column buried in the sports pages somewhere.