When you grow up in Columbia, Tenn., the “Mule Capital of the World,” you end up knowing a lot about mules. One thing you are told early is that you learn nothing new from the second kick of a mule.
Somehow the legacy media do not get that as it relates to their favorite daytime TV game, “Get Trump.” They keep trying to “get him” the way the media in the past have always gotten and destroyed politicians: with salacious innuendo, outright slander and yes, in the case of Trump, embarrassing facts. This doesn’t work for Trump, but they haven’t figured that out. America sent Trump to D.C. to be a disrupter, drain the swamp and give noogies to the biased media.
The media are on their 50th kick by this Trump mule, yet they continue. They have become Wile E. Coyote to his Road Runner. Their view is so transparent; who needs facts when you have already reached your conclusions? Unlike Romney, McCain and Bush, who tried to smile through the backstabbing by the media, Trump hits back.
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Old media rules don’t apply to this president, maybe because we hate and distrust the media worse than we do Trump. It’s fun to watch. It reminds me of what Ogden Nash once said, “In the world of mules, there are no rules.”
What it comes down to is that Americans are not angry, arrogant, condescending elitists like the mainstream media. We are more like Donald Trump: imperfect, un-PC, we have common sense, we see through BS, and are indelicate in matters of importance.