Not really sure what’s going on with this WaPo story. On first glance I thought it was a puff-piece on Trump to demonstrate “balance” after 35 days of reporting on his idiotic govt. shutdown. But down in the sub-headline, all of a sudden it’s a story on Trump rehashing the Bill Clinton / Monika Lewinsky scandal for his White House visitors.
The story opens with an anecdote from Team of Vipers (2019) that has Trump offering to show visitors where “Bill and Monika . . . “ noting that Trump “stopped himself” before saying more. But then it’s 3-5 paragraphs of “Trump likes playing tour guide with his White House guests” and Trump telling people about the Lincoln bedroom.
Then there’s the detail which makes you wonder how in God’s name the WaPo decided to position this story as a human interest / puff piece:
The president has also claimed to guests, without evidence, that his private dining room off the Oval Office was in “rough shape” . . . and that President Barack Obama used it to watch sports . . . “He just sat in here and watched basketball all day,” Trump told a recent group.
What the ever-living-hell? How does the author of the story let Trump’s characterization of Obama as a lazy, basket-ball watching black man go without comment. The reporter even reached out to a former Obama white-house official for comment!! Unsurprisingly, their source said that, no, Obama did not spend all day watching basketball in the White House dinning room.
I guess the casual racism of the Trump administration has been normalized to the point where the reporter felt no need comment?
Just the latest proof that the current occupant of the White House is a lying, racist — and that, two years in, the press still isn’t up to the task of documenting the everyday depravity of his administration.