The Republican Party and Republicans themselves may be undergoing a visceral transformation as they witness the repeated, strategic attacks on President Trump as the election approaches. These attacks seem to occur at well-timed intervals, and in concert with ever-hostile coverage from the news media. How convenient.
The news media is treating President Trump's upcoming campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as a potential disaster, casting the event as a dire threat to humanity — in yet another attempt to sabotage the president's reelection efforts.
They began arriving Monday. Fans of President Trump began lining up outside the Bok Arena in Tulsa, Oklahoma, five days early to ensure they get a seat, according to KJRH, the local NBC affiliate.
Out in the heartland, Republican officials are not buying into the Democratic Party's claim that President Trump's chances of reelection no longer exist. Some ambitious and very telling research by Politico reveals as much.
A veteran pollster has some clear numbers suggesting President Trump will be reelected, despite economic uneasiness, public unrest, media hostility and the coronavirus pandemic. It may not be a blockbuster win, but it is a win nonetheless over Democratic hopeful Joseph R. Biden.
While political and cultural discord preoccupies much of the nation, an analysis from Americans for Tax Reform states this: "Joe Biden's tax hikes may pose a greater risk to the economy than the coronavirus."
The lack of civility and decorum at the U.S. Capitol has reached a critical stage, a phenomenon which likely would have irked the nation's Founding Fathers. "The First Congress established civility as a core value of American government," the U.S. Archives notes in its section devoted to the matter, citing the Journal of the United States House of Representatives, April 6, 1789.
News organizations appear to be coordinating their efforts against President Trump on a weekly basis, using similar narratives and headlines. In recent days, the press collectively criticized his policy towards the coronavirus pandemic. Then Mr. Trump's response to the death of George Floyd was in question. This week, the effort is directed towards lousy poll numbers.
All aboard the Trump Train. For real. Perhaps President Trump should opt for an authentic whistlestop-style convention, touring several states on a private rail car, as six other presidents have done before him.
When the coronavirus pandemic first took hold of the nation, Hollywood's creative types wondered how long it would be before they could build the health crisis into plots for TV shows and movies. Then came the production shut-downs which affected all broadcast and cable networks and film companies; late night talk, soap operas, game shows, dramas, comedies -- all ground to a halt.
Churches may have closed during the coronavirus pandemic. Members of the clergy have been very busy, however -- especially a trio of evangelical pastors determined to rally the 25 million Christian voters who sat out the last presidential election.
It is an odd and telling political moment. Former presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and former White House advisor David Axelrod were among those who recently went to social media and shared an image of a darkened White House as riots raged in 147 cities around the nation. They clearly suggested that President Trump was within, doing nothing to quell the crisis.
In a time of national emergency, the major broadcast networks continue to undermine President Trump and his administration as they try to quell continuing public unrest over the death of George Floyd. Case in point: ABC, CBS and NBC devoted a combined total of 69 seconds of coverage pertaining to the attack on historic St. John's Church, which stands just across Lafayette Park from the White House. The structure had been set afire, defaced and vandalized by protesters Sunday night.
There is no doubt that George Floyd's death and the riots which followed in 147 cities nationwide proved to be a deeply disturbing series of events for every American, and likely for those in other nations which consider the U.S. to be the bulwark of freedom and sanity.
Journalists have been in harm's way before. They were embedded with the U.S. military in recent wartime conflicts, most notably in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some 800 journalists went to Afghanistan in fact, toting gas masks and learning to report on that war for better or worse. Some members of the media were asked by the Pentagon to attend a military-style boot camp to prepare them to cover a war in Iraq, this after troops complained of having to wait for "flabby, unfit journalists to keep up with them," noted The Guardian in 2002.
She has been on the job since April 7. That would be Kayleigh McEnany -- age 32 and the 31st White House press secretary -- who took charge of this challenge in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, and as the news media directed unprecedented and intense hostility toward President Trump.
A book with a notable comparison: "Trump and Churchill: Defenders of Western Civilization" by Nick Adams has just been published, sizing up the two high-profile, distinctive leaders who appear to have nothing in common. Both, however, upset the "prevailing politics" of their respective eras in similar fashion.
It is a possibility that world leaders may not want to address quite yet -- but the topic of viral terrorism has now entered the global discourse.
Democratic presidential hopeful Joseph R. Biden's "you ain't black" remark to black voters who would consider voting for President Trump -- uttered four days ago in an interview with nationally syndicated radio host Charlamagne tha God -- is still rattling the political landscape and prompting some to suggest Mr. Trump could benefit, despite Mr. Biden later apology.
Take a few seconds on Memorial Day to remember why we mark the day. In a proclamation, President Trump has asked the nation to pray for "permanent peace" at 11 a.m. in whatever time zone you happen to be in. Then pause again at 3 p.m. and think of those lost in battle in "The Moment of Remembrance" -- an event that was actually designated by Congress in 1950.
