“Florida Man Makes an Announcement” |
The New York Post makes fun of Trump
The “New York Post” launches an all-round broadside against former US President Donald Trump (76)!
The US conservative tabloid commented on the announcement of Trump’s renewed presidential candidacy with sarcasm dripping with contempt. At the bottom of the first page was a line: “Florida man makes ad.” A reference to page 26 follows.
There the reader will find a short text: “On Tuesday evening, just 720 days before the next election, a Florida retiree made a surprise announcement that he was running for president.” Pure irony!
And again: the “enthusiastic golfer Donald J. Trump” made the announcement “that no political expert has seen coming” to Mar-a-Lago, “his resort and his library of secret documents”.
A clear allusion by the American newspaper to the affair of secret documents surrounding Trump. In the summer, the FBI searched his property in Mar-a-Lago in Florida and found all kinds of things top secret documents that the former president stole from the White House.
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The “New York Post” also jokes about Trump’s age: if elected in 2024, he would be 78 – and therefore the same age as US President Joe Biden when he took office. In the last election campaign, Trump had criticized Biden as too old for the highest office in the US. Referring to his health, the American newspaper wrote: “His cholesterol levels are unknown, but his favorite food is grilled steak with ketchup.”
The phrase is also a pun on a well-known Internet meme: Headlines starting with the words “Florida Man…” often predominate irrational or absurd reports from the state of the United States.
Trump announced Tuesday night in Mar-a-Lago that he would run again in the 2024 presidential election and would like to recapture the White House. The announcement was expected. But it came at a time when the right-wing populist was hit politically after his Republicans’ weak performance in last week’s midterm elections.
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Billionaire conservative Rupert Murdoch’s media outlets — in addition to the New York Post including the Wall Street Journal and right-wing conservative news outlet Fox News — had already sharply distanced themselves from Trump following the midterm elections. and described him as “Republican underdogs.
A clear turnaround in journalism: Trump has been consistently positive over the past few years, and has always been highly praised, especially by “Fox News.”
It has not escaped observers that the station repeatedly exited live coverage of Trump’s hour-long speech Tuesday night and let his moderators have their say.
Trump will need to prevail in the Republican primary for the 2024 presidential nomination. The 76-year-old may be politically ill, but he remains immensely popular with right-wing electorates.
