'Ugly Even for Him': Trump's Media Allies Recoil at His Smear of MSNBC Host

[Zorro]

The Wall Street Journal, New York Post and Washington Examiner chastised the president for his unfounded attacks on Joe Scarborough.

Even President Trump’s most stalwart media defenders have recoiled at his baseless smears against the MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, whom Mr. Trump has all but accused of killing a former staff member two decades ago despite a total lack of evidence.

The president is accustomed to — and often relishes — blowback from critics in the press. But he is now facing an unusual chorus of reproach from the media platforms he relies on for comfort.

The New York Post, Mr. Trump’s first read in the mornings, lamented in an editorial on Tuesday that the president “decided to suggest that a TV morning-show host committed murder. That is a depressing sentence to type.” The Post’s editorial board went on to scold its most powerful reader: “Trust us, you did not look like the bigger man.”

“Vile,” declared the editorial board of The Washington Examiner, the popular conservative news site, in a scathing article on Wednesday that called Mr. Trump’s attacks “incompatible with leadership.” Mr. Trump is so enamored of The Examiner that he often grants interviews to its journalists, including one earlier this month.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/business/media/trump-joe-scarborough-conservative-media.html

[leftieNanner]

1. Ugly is all he knows

I'm glad to see that some of the press on that side of the aisle pushing back against him. Long overdue.

[samsingh]

2. trump is an ugly disgusting traitor, like a snake he's devour anything that is around him

those thinking they are safe by appeasing him find out they're on the menu when it suits his appetite.

[stopbush]

3. Exactly. Joe Scar was one of his chief enablers in the 2016 campaign,

giving him hours of free air time to spout his shit.

[Marcuse]

17. He joins Sessions and the other former collaborators under the bus

[kimbutgar]

4. I can't help feel part of this smear is because the people he hates most now are named Joe

Joe is the enemy in his deranged mind. There’s something psychological going on.

[sop]

5. Trump has 100,000 reasons to ratchet up the Scarbotough smears. In Trump's diseased mind,

the uglier and more vile his baseless attacks, the more attention he receives and the less time media will devote to his other failures.

[grumpyduck]

8. Yeah, and meanwhile the MSM eats it right up.

IMHO, they are the ones who are enabling him to pull off this shit. If they ignored his bullshit, it wouldn't work.

Of course, the MSM feels his bullshit will sell more ad time than the coronavirus numbers.

[RKP5637]

12. Exactly!!! Just like with Twitter too, they make mony off of his bullshit. Nothing

attracts attention more than an obnoxious hateful being for entertainment being outrageous, and tRump plays that roll well, and MSM rakes in the money.

[orwell]

6. More pearl clutching...

...from the Susan Collins crowd.

They are upset because he attacked one of their own.

Get used to it MagaTs. As Howard Stern has told you he never cared about you.

He only cares about Numero Uno...

Enjoy your cruise on the TrumpTanic...

[hannah]

15. In 2016

Joe Scarborough and Mika were gleeful when Trump started bashing Hillary in the most disgusting way. Joe said and I quote. “He’s the only one that can do it”. When Don Jr gave his speech at the Republican National Convention. Joe said “A star is born”
Now that the tables are turned Joe and Mika are crying, the worthless assXxxxs

[LaMouffette]

7. Trump is the poster child for psychological projection.

When he calls Hillary "Crooked Hillary," he's really saying, "I'm crooked as hell." When he calls Ted Cruz "Lyin' Ted Cruz," he's really saying, "I'm a pathological liar."

So when he calls Joe Scarborough a murderer, it could well be that he's projecting again and that HE is a murderer. Which would explain why he so blithely and chillingly made the "I could shoot someone on 5th Avenue" statement.

The man has no soul. I would totally believe that he "killed a guy once." (Or a few times.)

[Docreed2003]

9. Screw every last one of them

Where was their outrage when Trump led the charge on the bs "birther" attacks on Obama?
When he mocked a reporters disability?
When the mocked and attacked a Gold Star family?
When he mocked McCain as a POW?
Ugly is who Trump is, it's his fucking calling card. It's all he knows. This isn't a new low, this is just his perpetual low.

[RKP5637]

10. He should sue tRump for defamation of character! n/t

[Timer]

11. He's despicable.

Accusing a news-show host of murder. He loves conspiracy theories (of the totally partisan kind). Blithely accusing his predecessor of ordering "phone tapps" on him, and now, accusing him of committing the greatest crime in American history. He loves hurling accusations at his opponents but goes ballistic when criticized himself. Good God, what a disaster he is.

[exboyfil]

13. He smeared the reputation of a dead woman as well

hurting her family.

Talk about the ultimate punching down. How could anyone support this monster?

[RKP5637]

14. What amazes me is the MAGA herd that think he's their buddy. He doesn't give

a fuck about any of them. They are useful stooges for a vote, but are too damn dumb to comprehend what is going on.

[dalton99a]

16. The motherfucker was vile and ugly in 2015:

And they helped get him elected

[warmfeet]

18. Seriously?

If he had the power, he would lock up, and or kill, everyone that disagrees with him. We face an existential threat from our own government - from someone that our system of government allowed to be "elected." Substantial change, historical change, is required for us to survive.

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. Everything he's done has been vile. Beyond actually. Just now noticing are they?

[keithbvadu2]

20. Would Trump have any personal connection with such theories?

Trump-1989- Three casino execs set to testify against him, killed in plane crash

Would Trump have any personal connection with such theories?

Link to tweet

[Jeorge IX]

21. Dear Trumpies, You Don't Have the RIGHT TO RECOIL

You helped birth this Abomination, now LIVE WITH IT.

Or die. The fewer cretins like you, the better!