It’s easy for Trump’s enemies to crow that the president fumbled his meeting with Vladimir Putin. The president didn’t get the cease-fire he wanted, nor deployed the “consequences” he earlier had threatened if Putin’s rejected it––new sanctions on Russia’s oil customers. Moreover, in a Wall Street Journal editorial, the White House allegedly leaked a report that was helpful for Trump’s ever-eager critics fond of slurring him with “appeasement,” and Putin with Hitler-class evil.
The leakers claim that Putin promised during the negotiations that “in return for Donetsk, he’ll stop his assault and won’t invade other countries”–– whether purposely or accidently, a reprise of Hitler’s big lie in 1938 after the Munich fiasco, when he announced, after berating Poland, that it “is the last territorial claim which I have to make in Europe, but it is a claim from which I will not swerve, and which I will satisfy, God willing.” Whether Putin intended to paraphrase Hitler, the similarity is on the nosey for Trumpophobes.
Be that as it may, immediately blustering assaults on Trump’s actions and policies––however dubious such criticisms are––have filled the media with apocalyptic portents of doom that so far haven’t materialized. Take Trump’s policies and bold moves on tariffs. Hysterical predictions of economic disasters from recessions to inflation, rabid bear markets to currency collapses filled the media. Months later, the dire predictions haven’t materialized, while the economy is purring along. Even the Federal Reserve is bruiting a couple of reductions in interest rates this year.
Such predictors of Trump’s disasters are left with blatant lies, or calls of “just wait,” the eternal recourse of failed prognosticators. Of course, with enough time anything can happen. Even a blind squirrel can find an acorn occasionally. But good journalists and commentators don’t rely on future hopes to validate their skills. And as we’ve learned the last several months of Trump’s second administration, the President when negotiating usually has several more tricks up his sleeve that are not obvious to the TDS media desperate to enjoy Trump’s failures.
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Author: Ruth King
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