Media Watch
On Saturday, March 8th, trump attended the dignified transfer of six soldiers killed in Kuwait during Operation Epic Fury, his ongoing war with Iran. He showed up wearing a white "USA" baseball cap with gold lettering, straight from his own $55 merch line, and never took it off.
No other U.S. president has ever worn a baseball cap during a dignified transfer. While other networks aired the real footage, Fox News played old video from a completely different ceremony so their audience would never have to reckon with what their guy actually did.
Fox News later admitted on air that they "inadvertently aired video from an older dignified transfer instead of the ceremony that took place yesterday," calling it a mistake.
Twice. On two separate programs.
The backlash was immediate and crossed party lines. California Governor Gavin Newsom called trump a "disgusting little man," and former RNC chairman Michael Steele blasted him for having "absolutely no sense of dignity or appreciation for the moment."
This isn't just bad optics for trump, it's a revealing moment for Fox News. Social media users accused the network of blatantly disrespecting dead troops just to make trump look better, and honestly, it's hard to argue otherwise.
A network that spent years policing Obama's tan suit just quietly swapped out footage of a commander in chief wearing campaign merchandise at one of the military's most solemn ceremonies. The soldiers deserved better. So did the viewers Fox News spent years telling they were getting the truth.
DEVOLUTION
6 comments:
Does no one remember when just a few years ago Trump described dead military personnel as losers and suckers??
He wore a blue suit for the pope's burial, took a shit on live TV(everyone smelled it), throws paper towels, and shits in the hallway. Trump is Trump! Disrespecting a soldiers burial, what's new? The left is melting over this, this doesn't look good.
Trump back hands a 7 year old like a pimp and tell her God isn't real, I'm not flinching!
Fuck trump, fuck obama, fuck gw. Addition: fuck Eric, Steve, Jonathan and all other local politicians. They DGAF about us or anyone else. Look back at 9/11 assholes. Who were the victims? You do realize that the twin towers were professionally demolished? No evidence of the jets after they crashed? Skyscraper buildings are designed to sway in the winds and freezing temperatures. What an insult to the architects and engineers that a +100 floor building could crumble because a jet hit it. Look at the building that got demolished on SPI some years back. Twin Towers went the same way.
-Chelss 😘
Why? All you RGV people ask yourself a question. Why are we fighting Iran? Fuck them. Let them kill each other. IDGAF. They don’t fit into this world and we are supposed to care? Diesel is approaching 5-6 dollars a gallon. We will all be screwed when we go shopping. We are all going down. And I invite KOK, FRANK GARCIA, and Dr. Montoya himself, to disagree with this comment.
-Chelss 😘
How tall are you 1.618?
You write like you're some shrimpy-looking moron.
Don't salute if you're not wearing a cover dumbass!
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