Marc Thiessen writes a twice-weekly column for The Post on foreign and domestic policy. He is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and the former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush. He is a Fox News contributor.
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Marc Thiessen is the Washington Post columnist who regularly offers qualified praise for Trump with essays like “If you mute the chaos, the Trump administration is doing a great job” and “Trump’s idea of buying Greenland is far from absurd.”
The Washington Post publishes several conservative columnists like Jennifer Rubin who is an MSNBC regular and Max Boot who are anti-Trump. They also publish one of my favorite liberal columnists, Dana Milbank who mixes straight opinion with biting satire. (See list of WaPo columnists)
Generally the comments on Marc Thiessen’s columns express the views of the mostly liberal Washington Post readership, for example these are a few reactions to one this columns, “Trump and Biden have the same message: You may not like me, but you must vote for me.” Many attack both him personally and the WaPo for employing him.
- Marc-a flushable wipe in semi-human form.
- Marc, simply go to Hell and WAPO get rid of this Trump shill.
- This moronic gasbag again.
- Screaming lies and false equivalencies, Marc Thiessen does it again. Dear WashPost, please remove him as a commentator. His articles are unconscionable, and not authentic journalism.
I gave up on clicking on his columns but couldn’t resist reading this one because it had Trump and shameful in the same title.
He begins with this:
Imagine if, back in 2011, President Barack Obama had not only withdrawn all U.S. forces from Iraq, facilitating the rise of the Islamic State, but also invited Islamic State leaders to Camp David to sign an agreement cementing his withdrawal plan. Obama’s decision to pull out American troops was catastrophic, but even he was not dumb enough to seek a photo op with terrorists. Yet this is precisely what President Trump tried to do when he initially invited the Taliban to Camp David for a meeting this past weekend.
and ends with this:
By killing an American soldier, Taliban leaders were rubbing the United States’ defeat in Trump’s face. That move backfired. Trump now says the Taliban talks “are dead.” Let’s hope so — and that with the death of those talks dies one of the most shameful moments of the Trump presidency.
My reaction to reading this was mirrored in numerous comments. Here in the order they appeared when I looked at them this morning are several representative ones:
- When you've lost Thiessen......wow!
- Even Thiessen couldn't cover for that one.
- Trump is in way over his combover!
- Who is this pod person, and what happened to the Trump bootlicker we know and loathe?
- Better watch it Marc. You're not going to get invited to appear on Fox News anymore.
- Disappointed in WAPO editorial board for letting your lie about about the 2008 SOFA through to publication - which was your George Bush's doing, as you totally know, so you really are just bald-faced lying here, and we all know it. But also...Your pathetic yet still never-ending attempts to besmirch Obama's name and legacy are the mark of exactly how desperately hard it is to support 45...YET YOU PERSIST! Your contortions, while not pretty, are fun to watch. But he ain't gonna give you nuthin', man; haven't you figured that out? And here we are, three years in, and you still at it? I hear the future calling, Marc; it is almost here; what's it gonna say about toadies and boot-lickers like YOU???
- What's wrong Marc? I thought your God/President could do no wrong in his utter infallibility. You do know the rest of the world doesn't see this as any kind of change in his behavior, right?
- Marc, I suggested a while back that you do a Charles Krauthammer and declare yourself brain dead. Any chance of that? You’ve been supporting this guy for years, knowing his instability, narcissism, danger to himself and the country, dementia. The list goes on. Why are you surprised now that he’s whacked out?
- Finally, Mr. Thiessen concluded that Trump has no moral compass. Took 3 years to get here.
- no ... just a momentary "lapse" ... Marc will be repenting by the next column of his - full of the usual lies and kissing of Donald's "small hands"
- So is most everything else he does. Is your outrage to this issue a stand in for the broader disgust you harbor for this "president", but will never express publicly because your livelihood depends on spewing anti American propaganda into the media?
- You suck.
- Oh My! Are you sure you're Marc Thiessen? I know there is Obama bashing present, but an article that actually criticizes the Clown-in-Chief?
- I don't know if I can handle the shock of it!!!🤯..
Trump sycophants like Sean Hannity bent over backwards — evocative imagery not accidental — to support Trump’s invitation to the Taliban (see Fox News’ Sean Hannity tonight defended President Donald Trump‘s strategy on talks with the Taliban from the “media mob.” on Mediate). This isn’t news worth sharing
However, when the Washington Post’s only consistent Trump apologist is this critical of him I think it is news worth sharing with Daily Kos readers most of whom (as my poll will most likely show) don’t subscribe to the Washington Post or other online newspapers like the primary three, the WaPo, NY Times, and Wall Street Journal.