Sometimes you just have to wonder what planet Paul Krugman, the radical, left-wing columnist and economist for the New York Times, is living on. On Sunday morning, the journalist went on a tweet storm complaining that the media wasn’t presenting Trump accurately...because they were presenting him as sane.
Apparently Krugman has been living under a rock, because Trump’s alleged psychosis is the media’s second favorite talking point, after his alleged collusion with Russia to win the election in 2016. Regardless, the NYT columnist spent five tweets ranting about how the media was aiding Trump’s agenda by “pretending” he was sane and rational. Furthermore, Krugman wrote, Trump’s policies were derived entirely from problems Trump had made up in his mind.
So what did he list as examples of these supposed imaginary issues Trump drew out of thin air? How about illegal immigrant crime, and illegal voting?
Krugman went on to call journalists too timid to call out the president for being crazy. After all, they’d be accused of being “unbalanced” if they did that, he wrote. Clearly giving the media too much credit, he added, “Too often, they pretend that he’s talking about something real. This amounts, in practice, to huge pro-Trump bias.”
As if he hadn’t been clear enough already, Krugman came straight out and called Trump and his voters, crazy: “One side isn’t even wrong, just completely insane,” he reiterated
