Trump's Wildly Unhinged Rant At NYT Should Wake Up Media: He's Unfit

THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

The New Republic

News, Politics

4.4 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

On Sunday, Donald Trump erupted at The New York Times, slamming it in crazed and bizarre terms for its supposed unfair treatment of him. Yet if anything, in recent days the Times has crusaded relentlessly against his opponent, President Biden. Which is why this moment helps explain how Trump games the media—and how the media lets Trump game them. We talked with Will Stancil, an active social media presence who has prominently skewered the press for an immense double standard toward Trump and Biden. He explains why the Times and the media often seem to crusade more aggressively against Biden’s age than against Trump’s obvious mental unfitness for the presidency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:37.7	I'm your host, Greg Sargent.
1:43.6	On Sunday, Donald Trump erupted with rage at the New York Times. On Sunday, Donald Trump erupted with rage at the New York Times.
1:48.2	On his truth social feed, he slammed the Times as failing, adding that, quote,
1:52.7	They have called me wrong from day one, and will eventually be put to rest in the graveyard of bad and inaccurate journalism.
2:00.7	We think this is a telling moment
2:02.7	about how Trump games the media, but also about how the media lets Trump game them. In recent
2:08.9	days, the Times has crusaded relentlessly against President Biden, reporting with incredible
2:14.4	aggressiveness on every conceivable aspect of the story about Biden's age
2:18.9	and whether he should withdraw from the race. Yet here's Trump attacking them for supposed bias against
2:24.8	him, showing clearly that such attacks on the media have nothing to do with their actual coverage
2:30.4	and are only about gaming coverage in the future. Today we're talking about all this with Will Stancel, an extremely active social media
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