This week’s Mainstream Media Scream features longtime presidential advisor, media figure, editor and educator David Gergen declaring President Trump’s weekend speech as “deeply disturbing.”
Trump was in Harrisburg, Pa., at the famed Farm Show Complex, to herald his first 100 days and rap the media, which was holding the annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner, which the president snubbed.
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Gergen, on CNN following Trump’s speech, said:
“To bring your campaign speech into the presidency is something presidents rarely do. This was, this was the most divisive speech I’ve ever heard from a sitting American president. Others may disagree about that. He played to his base and he treated his other listeners — the rest of the people who have been disturbed about him or oppose him – he treated them basically as I don’t care, I don’t give a damn what you think because you’re frankly like the enemy. You’re like the enemy with the press. I thought it was a deeply disturbing speech in that regard.”
Looking forward to RALLY in the Great State of Pennsylvania tonight at 7:30. Big crowd, big energy!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 29, 2017
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains the pick: “You can always count on Gergen to relay the conventional, inside the Beltway, liberal Washington ‘conventional wisdom.’ The more Trump’s critiques of the establishment excite his base the more disdainful the media elite become.”
Rating:
Three out of five screams.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
