Donald Trump’s Disaster-Hijacking Playbook Exposed By Expert On Right-Wing Media
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Nicole Hemmer also explored the potent cocktail -- involving the president-elect -- that means "everything just feels worse all the time."
Nicole Hemmer — an expert on conservative and right-wing media, and the effect they have had on American politics — this week explained Donald Trump’s penchant for whipping up anger and causing division amid tragedies and disasters.
“It definitely is the case that this is something Trump does, right?” Hemmer, An associate professor of history at Vanderbilt University, asked The New Republic’s Greg Sargent in the latest episode of his podcast “The Daily Blast” that was released Thursday.
The president-elect has most recently sought to politicize the devastating California wildfires with repeated attacks on — and some false claims about — President Joe Biden and Democratic governor Gavin Newsom, who he has derogatorily nicknamed Gavin “Newscum.”
The returning POTUS used the same playbook after Hurricane Maria barreled into Puerto Rico in 2017, during the coronavirus pandemic and on various other occasions.
Trump “takes these moments that used to be a time when people began to come together a little bit, at least in that period of immediate disaster when there’s shock and horror” and attempts to use it for political gain, said Hemmer.
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