@raphjd said in Liberals love "whataboutisms" unless the other side does it:
@bi4smooth
Trump only wanted people to treat him like they did other presidents.
They did not. He had about 15 times the leaks that other Presidents had.
96+% of the reporting about him was negative, even to the point that they lied about him at every turn.
The fact that you don't seem to know this proves to me that you are not a conservative.
@raphjd said in Liberals love "whataboutisms" unless the other side does it:
@bi4smooth
Trump only wanted people to treat him like they did other presidents.
They did not. He had about 15 times the leaks that other Presidents had.
96+% of the reporting about him was negative, even to the point that they lied about him at every turn.
The fact that you don't seem to know this proves to me that you are not a conservative.
Trump overall had more media coverage than any other President.
In his time, Obama had more media coverage than any other President.
In his time, Reagan had more media coverage than any other President.
In his time, Carter had more media coverage than any other President.
If you can't see the pattern... well, I don't suspect you will. But, Trump, unlike previous Presidents, didn't bristle at the coverage, he reveled in it! And he (as most people in Marketing know already) knew that there was a wide-line between "good" publicity and "bad" - and that nearly ALL publicity is good!
Being the butt of every late-night talk-show host's jokes wasn't new. Complaining about it - in the media - was new. (Other President's eviscerated by the "comedy circuit" date back to our origins... the first President to really "adjust" to it was, ironically, Richard Nixon - who appeared on a TV show (Laugh-In) that regularly lampooned him! (Sock-It-To-Me!)
And, quite honestly, it worked for Trump! All that media coverage made him one of the most polarizing people of our time! There are few people EVER in American History that have more people diametrically opposed in their opinions of him! You would be hard-pressed to find an American who didn't have strong views - pro or con - about Trump!
Contrary to your insistence otherwise, I do not hate Trump. I disavow his politics as autocratic and borderline fascist... and I think he was harmful to our democratic form of Government. But, I don't think he's evil (nor, is he a mastermind - more of a megalomaniac who came upon the Political Stage at an opportune [for him] time).