Of course they are! Both of them have always been ruthless publicity hounds more than willing to butter one another's bread for mutual advantage. They have a lot in common!
Photos like this wouldn't have raised an eyebrow before Trump declared his candidacy for the 2016 election.
Then Trump won that election. Then he became a racist. Then he introduced lying to US politics. What a disaster!
It's been a godsend for American media of course. They quickly made the man they suddenly love to hate, after thirty years of obsequious slobbering over him, the number one news story all day every day. He's been a ratings bonanza for them.
American mainstream media obsessively focus on largely irrelevant "outrages" perpetrated by the liar in chief. So he called Baltimore a "rat-infested dump?" Cue a thousand hysterical op-eds denouncing his egregious racism!
That is neither news nor racism. Plenty of folks have made the same observation before Trump. But while nothingburger stories like that hog the headlines, what are you missing?
How many hysterical op-eds did you see when Trump made Jerusalem the home of the US embassy?
How many hysterical op-eds did you see when Trump gave the Golan to Israel?
How many hysterical op-eds did you see when Trump gave himself and his billionaire buddies (the same crew who own that mainstream media we're talking about) the biggest tax break in history?
How many hysterical op-eds have you seen about America's military budget going up by almost 50% since Trump was elected?
Next to none, I'll wager.
Wake up America! Your "free press" buries the important stuff while burying you under an onslaught of fear-mongering bullshit.
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