Dear New York Times: Donald Trump is No Boss Tweed, No Matter How Much You Wish He Were
Dear New York Times: Donald Trump is No Boss Tweed, No Matter How Much You Wish He Were
“Well, I wonder what it's like to be the rainmaker
I wonder what it's like to know that I made the rain…” Rob Thomas, “Real World”
As Ronald Reagan famously said during a presidential debate, “Well, there you go again.”
The New York Times has published yet another obsequious piece on Donald Trump, trying to convince us that the disgraced loser, twice-impeached, under criminal investigation ex-president is a kingmaker, sitting on his throne in Florida, doling out endorsements that turn to gold for those Republicans he deems worthy.
This sickening piece of “journalism” is not only one-sided – the only opponents they spoke to are those who weakly oppose him but are on the Trump Train because another election is near – but also full of wishful thinking.
The paper really thinks Trump is the second coming of Boss Tweed.
“Inspiring fear, hoarding cash, doling out favors and seeking to crush rivals, Mr. Trump is behaving not merely as a power broker but as something closer to the head of a 19th-century political machine,” Shane Goldmacher wrote.
Despite mentioning it a few times, Shane glosses over the fact that Trump and his boot-lickers still claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
The fact that Trump is working to replace candidates who don’t believe “The Big Lie” with candidates that do is not the main thrust of the article.
The fact that he has a mixed record when it comes to endorsements is also not the main thrust of the article. But that should be as well.
Apparently The Times is not actually interested in journalism.
Shane actually buries the lede on this one. That Trump’s machinations are nothing more than his latest grift. He’s charging candidates and political organizations to use his Mar-a-Lago resort and other properties for fund raisers and meet-and-greets.
“An entire political economy now surrounds Mr. Trump, with Trump properties reaping huge fees: Federal candidates and committees alone have paid nearly $1.3 million to hold events at Mar-a-Lago, records show,” he writes.
It’s pretty far down in the piece when Shane deigns to give us only one measly sentence about the number of prominent, in-the-know Republicans who are saying that Trump’s influence is waning and that average Americans are getting tired of all the “Stop the Steal” bullshit that Trump is still peddling.
But that doesn’t fit in with The New York Times’ thesis that everything Trump touches turns to gold. And that he is the kingmaker that will single-handledly defeat the Democrats in 2024.
Nevertheless, according to Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio, writing in a piece on CNN’s Website, former Trump loyalists are losing patience with him.
“Weariness with Trump also bubbled to the surface earlier this month when New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu mocked him at the annual Gridiron dinner for Washington's movers and shakers,” D’Antonio wrote. “Sununu began his remarks by sounding a note of optimism for Trump, describing his ‘experience,’ ‘passion’ and ‘sense of integrity’ as revealed in the former President's social media posts. Then he got laughs as he added, ‘Nah, I'm just kidding. He's f---ing crazy.’ That Sununu, who once called himself a ‘Trump guy through and through,’ would make such a joke is a remarkable turn of events.”
Many Republicans are fed up with Trump’s act, according to GOP Pollster Frank Luntz, and they want to finally put the 2020 election to bed.
“Republicans are laughing at former President Donald Trump in private," Luntz recently told The Daily Beast. “They won't say it, but behind his back, they think he's a child. They're laughing at him...Trump isn't the same man he was a year ago. Even many Republicans are tired of going back and rehashing the 2020 election."