A Politico headline reads: “Trump strikes somber tone while touring storm-ravaged North Carolina.” Somber? He lied about FEMA at the Carolina event, and it came just days after he performed a stunt pretending to work at McDonald’s and gave a speech talking about Arnold Palmer’s genitalia. This is the kind of media normalizing of Trump that has convinced far too many Americans that he’s not the danger for our country that he is.
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