Kim Kardashian West did a good thing.
She went to the White House on May 30 and lobbied President Trump on an immensely worthy cause: Prison reform and sentencing.
It’d take a special sort of deranged person to view West’s White House visit, which was for an unequivocally good thing, as some broader commentary on how terrible the president is. Trump has his many, many shortcomings, but it would take a certain sort of single-minded hyper-partisan to appropriate West’s good deed as an excuse to go after the White House.
Enter the New Yorker’s Naomi Fry, who penned an article titled, “Kardashian meeting Donald Trump in the Oval Office is a nightmare we can’t wake up from.”
This type of commentary is not necessary. It’s certainly not healthy. There’s opposing politics and policy, and then there’s whatever the hell this is from Fry:
We in media and politics talk a lot about what is and isn’t “normal” about the Trump administration. Maybe we should also be talking about what’s not normal about his critics. Maybe we should talk about what’s decidedly un-normal about a premier news organization like the New Yorker publishing demented, crazy-blogger-style anti-Trump rants.
Oh, by the way, West’s personal petitioning before the president resulted in the commutation of the sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, who was serving life in prison for a first-time nonviolent drug offense.
Good for West and good for the president.
Mandatory minimum sentences are barbaric, and it’s an unequivocally good thing that Johnson, who had already served 21 years in prison for cocaine possession, has her life back.
A real nightmare that Trump-West meeting was. Just terrible.
