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‘I’m exhausted’: Media elite already complaining after just 4 days of Trump

January 25, 2025 | | Print Article

After four years under “Sleepy Joe,” it only took four days under President Donald Trump to leave corporate media expressing their woes.

“I’m exhausted.”

A whirlwind opening salvo from the 45th and 47th president of the United States hadn’t just left supporters keeping up with all the “winning.” It also left the pundit class desperately trying to keep up with new proclamations, memorandums, and executive orders issued before talking heads could fully articulate their latest narrative.

In writing for The New Yorker, Susan Glasser begged the question, “Exhausted yet?” as she attempted to summarize the negative spin about Trump’s start to his second administration:

“It’s been three full days since Donald Trump returned to the Presidency, and so far he has pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate treaty and the World Health Organizations; announced the unilateral cancellation of the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship; reversed an order lowering prescription-drug prices for seniors; threatened a trade war with Canada and Mexico starting February 1st and an actual war with Panama if it doesn’t hand over the Panama Canal; declared an emergency at the southern border and moved to order thousands of U.S. military personnel there; eliminated federal government programs to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion and demanded that employees snitch on anyone inside the bureaucracy who might be tempted to continue doing such work anyway; and pardoned the vast majority of the pro-Trump insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, at his behest.”

 

“And that was in between sword-dancing onstage to the Village People at an inaugural ball; cashing in on the Presidency by marketing the $TRUMP cryptocoin, currently worth billions of dollars; and getting in a pissing match with an Episcopalian bishop who dared to question him to his face,” she added.

Better summing up the biases of the corporate media, CNN’s Brian Stelter wrote, “With 45 now back in office as 47, journalists are getting back on Trump Time (conveniently, Trump has licensed his name to a watchmaker) and going back to some of the debates that defined his first term. Should his remarks be shown live? Yes, sometimes. Should his deceitful claims be debunked by reporters? Yes. Should he dictate what’s considered ‘news’ at any given moment? No. The biggest news story right now isn’t Trump per se, it’s Trump’s impacts on ordinary people in the U.S. and beyond.”

In his column for The New York Times, David Brooks declared, “After a four-year hiatus, we are once again compelled to go spelunking into the deeper caverns of Donald Trump’s brain,” while Puck’s Tara Palmeri contended, “It’s day four of Trump II but it already feels like month four.”

As an MSNBC chyron laughably expressed, “Trump 2.0: Tips For Navigating Political Anxiety In 2025,” CNN’s Jake Tapper attempted his own breathless, albeit abbreviated, rundown of the president’s return that had him declaring, “I’m exhausted.”

Their loss was certainly Trump’s and the American people’s gain as according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll, the GOP leader had a +6 net approval, surpassing a -3 when he first entered office in Jan. 2017.

“He’s in a a better position than he was at any point during his entire first term,” CNN’s Harry Enten had said of the numbers. “Things have very much turned around.”

Capturing that sentiment amid mockery of the media, Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro made note of a boast from the president as he posted on X, “President Trump lied to me. He said I would tire of the winning. I have not tired of the winning. I demand more winning.”

Kevin Haggerty
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