Media Gets Ripped To Shreds For ‘Sane Washing’ Donald Trump’s Insanity

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A new term has burst onto the political scene, and it is being used to trash the corporate media that continues to refuse to cover Donald Trump’s cognitive decline. The term is “sane washing,” and it refers to the fact that media outlets are consistently trying to make sense of what Trump says rather than talking about the fact that his statements are pure insanity. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.

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So a great new term has popped up really in just the last week. And that term is sane washing, kind of like brainwashing, but sane washing. And it's what members of the media are now starting to use about other media outlets and how they are not properly covering Donald Trump's very clear and obvious mental problems. And on Monday night of this week, M-S-N-B-C host Lawrence O'Donnell did a phenomenal job of absolutely trashing the New York Times for trying to sane wash Donald Trump's idiotic speech last ni uh, last week at the New York Economic Forum where he vomited up a word salad. And the New York Times did their best to try to make sense of it and give you their interpretation of what he was trying to say rather than just saying, this guy is bat crap crazy. So here is what Lawrence O'Donnell said. The elements of the news media that have been accused of saying washing Donald Trump know that they are guilty of exactly that.

And now some of them like the New York Times, they really, really are trying to do something about it. But this was their first try, so it's not perfect. Sane washing O'Donnell explained is when outlets quote, edit Donald Trump's crazy statements down to a shape that allows them to then make sense of them. He accused the New York Times of sane washing in the article after they printed a rambling response, Trump gave in a speech to the new, uh, economic Club of New York, in which he suggested tariffs could provide government funding for childcare. The article pointed out Trump's long answer after acknowledging that reprinted just portions do not give the full picture of how baffling Trump's statements can be. So then Lawrence continued. He accused the paper of allowing Trump to describe tariffs as quote, taxing for a nations with no pushback and pointing out that such taxes can often be pushed onto American consumers.

And they are in this article, the New York Times is trying to cure itself of its habit of sane washing Donald Trump. And in the very next passage after the one I just read, the Times tries to sane wash what Donald Trump said last week. It to the stupid rich people at the New York Economic Club who clapped enthusiastically for Donald Trump's incoherent response to a question about childcare, a response that was not an answer. He then mocked the times for saying Trump's childcare answer simply offered a disputable policy assumption, a disputable policy assumption. O'Donnell said That is the single most disturbing thing I have read in the New York Times about the New York Times. Now everything O'Donnell said is correct, and everything O'Donnell said is what I've been saying for months, that the media is not doing a good job and most of the time not doing a job at all of covering Donald Trump's mental problems. And I do believe personally, we're looking at both psychological problems and neurological problems, right? There is a psychiatric component