Did you know that the Kansas City Chiefs actually hail from Missouri?
You may not have — it’s a pretty easy mistake to make, to confuse the Kansas City Chiefs for a team based in Kansas. Their home base directly borders a city by the same name in Kansas, and they have many Kansans among their supporters. Still, President Trump’s first draft of his congratulatory tweet to the Super Bowl winners was technically inaccurate, because it congratulated Kansas, rather than Missouri. He corrected the error quickly and sent out a new tweet.
A simple, honest mistake like is no big deal, right? Most rational people would think this hardly a story. They’d laugh it off, much like people did when President Obama erroneously referenced a Navy corpsman as a “corpse man.”
But no, this is Trump. So the liberal media had the exact opposite reaction and decided to choose this slightly erroneous tweet, of all things, as an anti-Trump hill to die on.
Why Donald Trump’s ‘Kansas’ mistake absolutely mattershttps://t.co/DHJenYgBRh pic.twitter.com/l64QsttbVT
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) February 3, 2020
It’s Missouri you stone cold idiot. pic.twitter.com/O1cAAOFsJ6
— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) February 3, 2020
CNN “analyst” Chris Cillizza wrote an entire screed on “Why Donald Trump’s ‘Kansas’ mistake absolutely matters.” Meanwhile, MSNBC contributor and former Democratic senator Claire McCaskill blasted Trump, saying “It’s Missouri you stone cold idiot.”
The New York Times decided this typo was worth an entire story, and the reporter who wrote it up, White House Correspondent Katie Rogers, decided to paint the error as “the kind of mix-up his followers might expect a member of the coastal elite to make, not a president who spends much of his time speaking on behalf of people from that part of the country.”
Yes, seriously. These are just a few examples of the hysteria that abounded in the light of the president’s tweet.
Good grief. This is actually the kind of error that any average person might make — even someone from, say, Indiana or Michigan. Mistaking the Kansas City Chiefs as a Kansas team does not make someone an “idiot.” Getting mad about it does. And what’s representative of the “coastal elite” is the fact that so many members of the liberal media think anyone actually cares about the president making a mistake in a Super Bowl congratulatory tweet.
If anything, this kind of nonsense plays into Trump’s narrative that he is the victim of a biased, out-of-touch media. Trump does indeed exaggerate this bias, and he goes too far for sure when he says the media are the “enemy of the people.” But media outlets don’t exactly help the industry’s case when they pull these kinds of idiotic antics. Don’t be surprised if Trump references this event in the future to bash the media at campaign events or speeches.
The media enoy extremely low trust among the public. I wonder why.
