Less than 24 hours after CBS and the other networks declared that Donald Trump had been elected president, one of their prime time crime dramas took a thinly-veiled jab at the new President-elect, as [spoiler alert!] a homicidal teenager justifies his murders of entire families as a way to punish high school bullies by citing “some politicians” who say “the best way to handle terrorists is to take out their whole families.”
That’s a clear echo of what Donald Trump told CBS’s John Dickerson on Face the Nation last December. Talking about terrorists, Trump asserted: “They say they don’t mind dying. I think they do mind dying. But I can tell you this, they want their families left alone. We have to stop terrorism.”