At the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Thursday, former President Donald Trump gave a rambling speech late into the night in which he demanded Democrats drop criminal investigations against him, pushed 2020 election conspiracy theories and said Democrats are ācheating on elections,ā erroneously claimed that immigrants are ācoming from mental institutions and insane asylums,ā and cracked incoherent jokes about Hannibal Lecter.Ā On Friday morning, many front-page headlines bought the campaignās preemptive spin that Trumpās speech would be one of āunityā and healing.Ā The speech hit many of the usual notes heard from the former president over the last nine years, but media outlets spent the week previewing the Trump campaignās spin that his speech would aim to unify and ābring the country together,ā suggesting that the attempt on Trumpās life last weekend had turned him into a more āsereneā person. Despite the reality of the former presidentās remarks Thursday night, many newspaper front pages on Friday morning ran stories highlighting Trumpās recounting of the recent assassination attempt and claiming that his convention speech was āsomber,ā āunifying,ā and āhealing.ā
Itās not really a coincidence that mainstream media (even the alleged liberal media) constantly covers for and actively rehabs the image of Trump and also happens to be entirely owned by billionaires who would stand to gain a lot from Trump cutting their taxes and eliminating the regulatory apparatus of the country.
They know that they got way more revenue from all the rage inducing news Trump would incite during his presidency. They know itāll be a disaster, but they also know theyāll make way more money.
ā¦ for us. They have their private islands and hundreds of servants and couldnāt care less.
It is a conundrum