Conservative author Ann Coulter said if nothing else comes out of President Trump’s time in office, at least the news media will have lost all influence in the U.S.
In her upcoming book, “Resistance Is Futile: How the Trump-Hating Left Lost Its Collective Mind,” Coulter sides with the White House in describing the investigations into the 2016 Trump campaign’s alleged “collusion” with Russia as “fake news” and says its front-page status is a symptom of the collective mind set of a corrupted, “totally discredited” media out to get the president.
“When journalists get together, they lose control and become a clique of mean girls dishing on the new girl at school,” she says in a copy of the book obtained in advance by the Washington Examiner. “They have to call Trump the ‘short-fingered vulgarian’ or construct absurd conspiracy theories about Russia.”
She adds that Trump is “like chemotherapy for the country: it’s unpleasant to go through, you vomit, your hair falls out–but it kills cancer cells, and you live. Trump’s presidency may be an unpleasant thing to go through, but everyone on the New York Times’ editorial board will die.”
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Coulter, like Trump, is an aggressive critic of the national media, frequently attacking news outlets for spreading what she says is false information about Republicans, conservatives, and more lately the president.
In her book, Coulter says that in order for American democracy to thrive, the press in its current state must fully collapse.
“An essential component of saving the country is absolutely destroying the press,” she writes. “Not a brick upon a brick should remain. Then it can be rebuilt on more ethical lines.”
She adds later, “Things have been trending this way for a while, but under Trump, the media’s transformation into an enemy of democracy is complete.”
“Resistance Is Futile” publishes Aug. 21.
