Trump claims public schools are performing transgender surgery on children without parental knowledge
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Bouie points out that:
(1) Trump is making totally deranged claims.
(2) Trump is also now incapable of speaking cogently in any sense on any topic for any length of time.
(3) Trump has deteriorated in regard to both of these behaviors quite markedly since 2020.
(4) That a major party presidential candidate’s very advanced age might be causally related to the candidate’s recent physical and mental deterioration was until five weeks ago by far the biggest issue in the 2024 campaign. This issue has now almost completely disappeared from elite media discourse. (Except, I would add, when Bouie is pointing out that it has disappeared).
All of this makes no sense unless you assume some combination of:
(1) Ordinary rules of journalism don’t apply to Trump; and/because
(2) The people who own and manage outlets like Bouie’s own employer either actively want Trump to win, or are relatively indifferent to that possibility, given that Trump’s continued political relevance is profitable for them personally.