Trump, from mockery to mockery until final victory

At this point in the (bad) movie, no plot twist in Trump 2.0 is surprising, and we verify that what circulates and is sent to us isn't a fabrication by inertia, but we sense that it's a new episode in the furious megalomania of the harassing boss. In this case, I'm referring to the White House section called "Media Biases," which compiles the president's denials of published news stories. Anyone harmed by a false, fabricated, or inaccurate news story has the right to speak out, even if it's an institution: journalists shouldn't be untouchable; what should be untouchable is the citizen's right to receive verified and truthful information. But this digital space isn't about that: it's just a public square where anyone who publishes something inconvenient in the eyes of the highly irritable President Trump is lynched. The loss of respect is constant: a CNN journalist named Jake is dubbed "Fake," and some of the categories under which his posts are classified have names like "leftist delusions."

All of this is happening on a website also paid for by Democratic voters, where there is no desire to correct anything, but merely a desire to ridicule, with the not insignificant benefit that this practice is increasingly eroding trust in the media. The trap is that the site mixes obvious errors of little consequence with pieces that are targeted simply because they don't include the talking points provided by the White House. Of course, journalists must listen to all sides, but that doesn't mean they have to repeat them uncritically, without considering or verifying them. Trump is leading the United States down a rocky path and dragging half the world down with his slippery example. And contempt for journalism, that is, for oversight, constitutes one of the fascist-like aspects of his presidency.