Trump’s second time period actions face completely different media portrayal than Biden

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Donald Trump stands accused of making an attempt to repeal the twentieth century.

That’s how the New York Occasions places it, and there's ample reporting to again that up.

However I'd add this little bit of perspective.

When Joe Biden got here into workplace, he was extensively portrayed as making essential, progressive, reforms. He was depicted as undoing the harm of Trump’s first time period. He was one of many good guys.

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(Biden was additionally derided as too outdated for the job and mentally declining, and shielded from the press, and botching the border, however his coronary heart was seen as being in the fitting place.)

When Trump received a second time period, he was instantly considered as a human wrecking ball.

President Donald Trump speaks throughout a lunch with African leaders within the State Eating Room of the White Home, Wednesday, July 9, 2025, in Washington. (AP Picture/Evan Vucci)

He’s been completely aggressive, taking up elite regulation corporations, Ivy League universities and the media, profitable large settlements from two of the three broadcast networks, ABC and CBS. He’s sealed the border, backed stronger ways by ICE brokers, and slapped even longtime allies with sky-high tariffs–all of which he had promised throughout the marketing campaign.

However most within the media have portrayed this as shifting backwards, undoing essential reforms and damaging the nation. They've slid again into the acquainted function of the Resistance.

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The framing is that Trump is destroying democracy, ruining the financial system, yadda yadda yadda. He is without doubt one of the unhealthy guys. By no means thoughts that he received the favored vote.

Trump is undoing what Biden did, as Biden did after Trump’s first time period, and that could be a disaster.

The president additionally efficiently bombed Iran’s nuclear websites, and regardless of the talk over how a lot of a setback that was, most Democrats and media folks refused to credit score him, or did so grudgingly.

(On the identical time, Trump and his Justice Division additionally bungled the Jeffrey Epstein case, refusing–after a giant buildup–to launch something, on grounds that there was no consumer checklist and that the convicted pedophile did commit suicide in jail.)

On Sunday’s Mediabuzz , Sarah Bedford, investigations editor of the right-leaning Washington Examiner, referred to as it "an enormous PR catastrophe for the Trump administration. There’s no means for them to spin their means out of this."

I’ve been making an attempt to determine why that is placing such a deep chord amongst MAGA loyalists, slightly than being a two-day story, and that is my take.

AG Bondi, Jeffrey Epstein, President Donald Trump. (Getty Pictures)

The no-need-to-release-anything about this "creep," as Trump calls him, is a proxy for a broader sentiment that the wealthy and highly effective all the time get away with issues. They shield one another. They’re by no means held accountable for actions that may sink the remainder of us.

I’ve been making an attempt to determine why that is placing such a deep chord amongst MAGA loyalists, slightly than being a two-day story, and that is my take.

The no-need-to-release-anything about this "creep," as Trump calls him, is a proxy for a broader sentiment that the wealthy and highly effective all the time get away with issues. They shield one another. They’re by no means held accountable for actions that may sink the remainder of us.

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From the New York Times : "On issues large and small, Mr. Trump has hit the rewind button. On the broadest degree, he has endeavored to reverse the globalization and internationalism which have outlined U.S. management across the globe since World Conflict II, below presidents of each events. However even at a extra prosaic degree, it has change into evident that Mr. Trump, 79, the oldest president ever inaugurated, merely prefers issues the way in which he remembers them from his youth, and even earlier than that."

Within the well-reported piece, Peter Baker says Trump needs has referred to as into query fluoride in water, flu vaccine and automotive security requirements.

President Donald Trump is pictured on the conclusion of the Membership World Cup last soccer match between Chelsea and PSG at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., Sunday, July 13, 2025. (AP Picture/Jacquelyn Martin)

"He has made clear that he needs to return to an period when ‘Cats’ was the large hit on Broadway, not ‘Hamilton;’ when navy services had been named after Accomplice generals, not homosexual rights leaders; when coal was king and there have been no windmills; when straws had been plastic, not paper; when bathrooms flushed extra powerfully; when there weren’t so many immigrants; when law enforcement officials weren’t discouraged from being tough on suspects; when range was not a aim in hiring or school admissions or a lot of the rest–all to save lots of America from "radical left lunatics."

You could or could not agree with this evaluation, however there’s little query that Donald Trump needs to hit the time machine and return the nation to a time when he was rising up, and even a long time earlier than that.

That, in spite of everything, is why we've got elections.

Footnote: President Trump posted this, seemingly out of the blue:

"Due to the truth that Rosie O’Donnell shouldn't be in one of the best pursuits of our Nice Nation, I'm giving critical consideration to taking away her Citizenship. She is a Menace to Humanity, and will stay within the great Nation of Eire, if they need her. GOD BLESS AMERICA!"

I don’t suppose he has the facility to do that to a natural-born American citizen. And I don’t suppose he'll. However even when he did, wouldn’t it must be tied to some sort of nationwide safety risk? Rosie, with whom he’s been feuding for years?

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She has hit again, in all probability grateful for the publicity:

"The president of the usa has all the time hated the truth that i see him for who he's – a prison con man sexual abusing liar out to hurt our nation to serve himself – this is the reason i moved to eire – he's a harmful outdated soulless man with dementia who lacks empathy compassion and primary humanity."

Zero proof that he has dementia, in fact. However why go there?

Howard Kurtz is the host of FOX Information Channel's MediaBuzz (Sundays 11 AM-12PM/ET). Primarily based in Washington, D.C., he joined the community in 2013 and recurrently seems on Particular Report with Bret Baier and The Story with Martha MacCallum amongst different packages.