I heard a pretty good joke the other day about a group of children who toured a fire department. When the firefighter asked a child what he would do if his clothes caught on fire, the young boy replied, āI wouldnāt put them on.ā
Iām about to put on clothes that have caught on fire. Iām about to defend Donald Trump. Sort of.
Anyone who knows me knows I donāt particularly care for Trump. Heās to politics what Howard Cosell was to sports. Cosell prided himself in ātelling it like it is,ā which was just his justification for being downright cruel. Same with Trump. And like Cosell, Trump is an insecure person who needs people to tell him how great he is ā otherwise heāll tell you.
And I certainly donāt go along with Trump banning the Washington Post or whatever heās doing like heās done to all these other news organizations: Gawker, BuzzFeed, Foreign Policy, Politico, Fusion, Univision, Mother Jones, the New Hampshire Union Leader, the Des Moines Register, the Daily Beast and Huffington Post.
But the Washington Postās headline āDonald Trump suggests President Obama was involved with Orlando shootingā was a stretch at the least and irresponsible at the worst.
The headline appeared online above the Postās most-read article at the time. That was the original headline. The headline now states āDonald Trump seems to connect President Obama to Orlando shooting.ā
I read the story https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/06/13/donald-trump-suggests-president-obama-was-involved-with-orlando-shooting/. I donāt see anywhere in the story any statements made by Trump that specifically link Obama to the Orlando tragedy.
Now I have to put out my clothes that have been on fire.
ā Charles Whisnand