“A Man from Florida”
The New York Post makes fun of Donald Trump
11/18/2022, 11:05am (updated)
Former US President Donald Trump is known for a lot of things, but not a little ego. After his defeat in the midterm elections, a former comrade declared him a nobody: Rupert Murdoch’s “New York Post” newspaper mocked Trump’s renewed candidacy for president.
The right-wing tabloid New York Post has reacted with biting sarcasm to former US President Donald Trump’s renewed bid for president. The paper, which is part of Murdoch’s media empire, simply wrote “Florida man makes announcement” at the bottom of its front page on Wednesday – and sent its readers back to page 26.
There we read in a short text full of irony: “Just 720 days before the next election, a retiree from Florida made a surprise announcement on Tuesday evening that he was running for president.” “Avid golfer Donald J. Trump” made the announcement “that no political pundit saw coming” to Mar-a-Lago, “his resort and library for secret documents.”
The “New York Post” alluded to the story of the secret documents that Trump took with him to his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida after his stint in the White House. The tabloid also notes that if Trump wins the 2024 election, he would be 78, the age of incumbent Joe Biden, the oldest president in US history, when he took office. “His cholesterol levels are unknown, but his favorite food is grilled steak with ketchup.”
Break former allies?
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.
Conservative billionaire Rupert Murdoch’s media outlets – in addition to the “New York Post” including the “Wall Street Journal” newspaper and the conservative news channel Fox News – had already sharply distanced themselves from Trump after the midterm and regarded him as an “underdog” for designated Republicans. You have reported very favorably on Trump in recent years.
It was not lost on observers that Fox News repeatedly exited the live broadcast of Trump’s hour-long speech Tuesday night and let its moderators have their say. Trump will need to prevail in the Republican primary for the 2024 presidential nomination. Although the 76-year-old is politically ill, he is still hugely popular with conservative electorates.
(This article was first published on Thursday, November 17, 2022.)
