This is absolutely insane. The New York Times has an “explainer” that dissects Trump’s tweet sentence by sentence attempting to find meaning. (I captured it in the image above because I couldn’t copy and paste.)
How degrading! To accept these… crumbs from Trump’s twitter feed without even putting up a fight and unironically report on them is a low that I thought even the Times wouldn’t reach. They’ve gone beyond treating this as normal — they are elevating it to a legitimate way of interacting with him going forward.
As someone who has always respected the power of the press, I find this horrifying.