NBC apparently assumed the role of sore loser Wednesday on NBC Nightly News, as they pulled out all the stops in an attempt to smear President-Elect Donald Trump. First, they stoked the liberal anxiety that Trump would join the ranks of the world’s most deplorable despots, before moving on to assert that the America that elected Trump was not welcoming to minorities. “While Donald Trump's many supporters are basking in his victory, many others woke up this morning feeling disillusioned by the headlines,” sulked anchor Lester Holt.
“Time and time again critics accused Trump of running a campaign with undercurrents of racism and those concerns persist now that the election results show a sharp racial divide,” Holt continued to opine. Holt turned it over to reporter Ron Allen to do most of fear mongering, “Outside the nation's African-American history museum, there's deep worry about president-elect Donald Trump's victory and the huge turn-out by rural working-class white voters.”
Allen reported (that’s right, reported) that the reason Trump was elected was because the white people in rural America couldn’t handle diversity:
They see what's been called a “white-lash.” White Americans feeling left out and deep resentment as the nation grows more diverse. Rallied by a candidate who promised to ban Muslims, wall out Mexicans, and who challenged the very legitimacy of the nation's first black president.
The NBC reporter went on to tout the liberal hashtag “#NotMyPresident” and then declared, “Still today, with President-Elect Trump, some worry their country has turned against them.”
The network also feared for what Trump would bring against the Latino community, while completely ignoring how he improved on Mitt Romney’s 2012 Latino turnout by two points. “At watch parties from Florida to California this was the moment that many Latino voters were afraid of. Shock and tears turn to fear,” announced a depressed sounding Miguel Almaguer.
“For many of the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in this country, the future became more uncertain,” he stated, “For 16-year-old Valerie Travi, who was born in the US, this election seems more like an eviction.” According to Almaguer, Travi’s parents were sent back to Colombia almost a year ago, and “With Clinton she saw hope. With Trump, helplessness.”
While the NBC reporter fretted for Travi’s situation, there was no mention of the heartless man who tore apart a happy family, the current President. Barack Obama is the one who should be receiving the ire of Almaguer and NBC in this case, since he controls the government. But Obama is their favorite, so no hope for objectivity there.
Almaguer ended his biased report by praising Latino union workers who were preparing to stand against a President Trump:
Here in what was the battleground state of Nevada, thousands of Latino union workers had canvassed this area for weeks, hoping to turn this purple state blue. They were successful in doing that. Now they say they will battle Donald Trump's policies so they don't become legislation.