The mainstream media, which has proven itself to be ardently opposed to President Donald Trump over the past eight years, is already complaining that it is becoming fatigued as the U.S. is less than a week into the second Trump administration. After his inauguration on Monday, Trump wasted no time enacting his promised agenda, signing hundreds of executive orders, enacting deportations, and more.
As a result, Trump has given the media much to report on, such as ICE carrying out operations around the nation to deport illegal immigrants. In other news that has brought dismay to the left, Trump has signed executive orders attacking diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and pardoned over 1,500 January 6 defendants.
Reacting to Trump’s early accomplishments, staff writer at The New Yorker Susan Glasser asked readers if they were “exhausted yet?” Listing several of Trump’s actions, she wrote, “It’s been three full days since Donald Trump returned to the Presidency, and so far he has pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate treaty and the World Health Organization; announced the unilateral cancellation of the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship; reversed an order lowering prescription-drug prices for seniors.”
Continuing to outline the president’s actions, Glasser said that Trump “threatened a trade war with Canada and Mexico starting February 1st and an actual war with Panama if it doesn’t hand over the Panama Canal; declared an emergency at the southern border and moved to order thousands of U.S. military personnel there.”
The staff writer pointed out the reversal of the DEI agenda, noting that Trump “eliminated federal government programs to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion and demanded that employees snitch on anyone inside the bureaucracy who might be tempted to continue doing such work anyway; and pardoned the vast majority of the pro-Trump insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, at his behest. And that was in between sword-dancing onstage to the Village People at an inaugural ball; cashing in on the Presidency by marketing the $TRUMP cryptocoin, currently worth billions of dollars; and getting in a pissing match with an Episcopalian bishop who dared to question him to his face.”
Furthermore, CNN’s Brian Stelter explained that the media will have to figure out how to move forward under the Trump administration. “With 45 now back in office as 47, journalists are getting back on Trump Time (conveniently, Trump has licensed his name to a watchmaker) and going back to some of the debates that defined his first term. Should his remarks be shown live? Yes, sometimes. Should his deceitful claims be debunked by reporters? Yes. Should he dictate what’s considered “news” at any given moment? No. The biggest news story right now isn’t Trump per se, it’s Trump’s impacts on ordinary people in the U.S. and beyond.”
The American Tribune previously reported on CNN allegedly trying to push a hoax about the Trump administration on day one, after Elon Musk’s gesture on Inauguration Day was taken out of context and portrayed as possibly being a Nazi salute. While covering Musk’s post-inauguration speech, one CNN host said, “It was quick. I think our viewers are smart and they can take a look at that, but it certainly was. It’s not something that you typically state American political rallies.”
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