During the first half of their extended post-election coverage Wednesday evening, NBC Nightly News seemed to be setting the ground work for four years of a President Donald Trump all while stoking the left’s anxieties. “There were gasps around the world. Headlines, ‘Trumpocalypse’ and ‘Disunited States’” hyped NBC’s Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel as he delved into the ridiculous, “But there are deeper concerns tonight that the world's shining light of democracy has gone dark.”
“You cannot look at President Trump and call the American president the leader of the free world” fretted the leftist Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer to Engel, “Because America has increasingly abdicated its legitimacy to that title.”
Engels claimed that the only world leaders to welcome a President Trump was a vast array of some of the world worst despots, “Those welcoming the most were right-wing parties, who rushed to embrace Trump as their new hero.” Engels was eager to tie as many of them to Trump as possible:
“He's like me,” joked the Filipino president, accused of turning his police into anti-narco death squads. Egypt's General Sisi, who came to power in a coup bragged he was the first foreign leader to congratulate Trump. And Hungary's Victor Orban who did wall out his country to keep out refugees called Trump “great news.” And of course, Russia's Vladimir Putin.
Closing out his report, Engels speculated that Trump’s “presidency could usher in global instability.”
On CBS Evening News it was a little different, as they seemed to be trying to talk liberal off the ledge and assure them Trump could not do much harm. Anchor Scott Pelley gave his audience a crash course in the Constitution:
Do these words sum up for you the faults in these campaigns? Passionate partisanship, absurd judgment, and ambitious self-serving behavior? Well, if so, consider those are the words that John Adams used in 1776 to advocate for a constitution with three branches of government — separate, equal, and hopelessly encumbered by hobbles known as checks and balances…
These days we call it gridlock, but that is what the Founders were striving for, a system that would slow down, even stop, when politics became too partisan, absurd, and self-serving. The Constitution is a circuit breaker that prevents real damage.
It’s funny how liberals seem to miraculously care about the limits and bounds of the federal government when they’re the ones out of power. This is especially true since they often attacked Republicans for creating gridlock yet praised it as a method to impede Trump. If these reports are any indication, these are the kinds of attacks Republicans have to look forward to for the next four years.