Rex Huppke: Trump, you're right — we should embrace you, coddle you
by By Rex Huppke, Chicago Tribune
Aug 23, 2017
4 minutes
After watching Donald Trump's campaign rally in Phoenix, it became clear that we in the media owe the president a sincere apology.
Trump used Tuesday night's rally to denounce the "fake news" media for being mean, dishonest, bad, America-hating and an all-around pain in his keister.
Referring to controversial comments he made in the wake of a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., Trump said: "The words were perfect."
He even quoted his own perfect words, cleverly omitting the part where he blamed the Charlottesville tragedy on "many sides" rather than just on the Nazi side, creating the controversy
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