Category: The Current Situation
Need context? Here’s some:
- WKZO: Trumps tweet support for Goya Foods amid boycott campaign
- The Denver Channel: President Trump and his daughter promote Goya foods in possible ethics violation
- The Independent: Ivanka Trump violated government ethics rules with Goya photo stunt, watchdog rules
- Associated Press: Ivanka Trump defends Goya post that watchdogs call unethical
And in case you need to be reminded:
Last month, this painting appeared on the cover of Der Spiegel (here’s the international edition, in English), the most-read news magazine not just in Germany, but Europe as well. Its title is Der Feuerteufel (the firestarter), and its subtitle is Ein Präsident setzt sein Land in Brand (“a president sets fire to his country”).
To find out more about this magazine cover, see Ad Age’s article, Germany’s Leading Newsweekly Decries Trump’s Incendiary Approach.
May 20, 2020: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, toeing the Trump Administration’s line of pretending everything is fine, castigates the media for overhyping the coronavirus threat.
An excerpt from his rant:
You got a lot of people in your profession who waxed for weeks and weeks about how Florida was gonna be just like New York.
“Wait two weeks! Florida’s gonna be next! Just like Italy. Wait two weeks.” Well, hell, we’re eight weeks away from that, and it hasn’t happened.
So we’ve succeeded, and I think that people just don’t want to recognize it because it challenges their narrative, it challenges their assumption, so they gotta try to find a bogeyman. Maybe it’s that there are black helicopters circling the Department of Health. If you believe that, I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell you.
Two months after the rant:
- CNN: Florida shatters US record for new single-day Covid-19 cases
- Orlando Sentinel: Florida breaks state, U.S. record with 15,300 coronavirus cases reported in single day
- Tampa Bay Times: Florida breaks nationwide record with 15,300 coronavirus cases
- Reuters: Florida sets one-day record with over 15,000 new COVID cases, more than most countries
- And even “Republican Pravda” is reporting it: Florida shatters largest single-day record of coronavirus infections in US while world sees cases spike
Nice going, Governor DeVirus.
Watch this video before Disney issues the takedown notice! It’s the ad for Walt Disney World re-opening, but with the audio track replaced by Blue Oyster Cult’s Don’t Fear the Reaper.
The people who made the video also added some cuts from the film based on Stephen King’s The Stand, but they’re quite unnecessary. The empty Disney World scenes with masked staff are creepy enough, as the stills below will show:
