The American media have devolved to a level so absurd, so ridiculously bizarre and irrational, that it would be funny if it weren’t so terribly sad. It's like they want us to mock them.
Here’s a really good example of what happens when you hate a president more than you love making a lick of sense, and then someone hands you a microphone. The Hill on Monday ran an entire, non-satirical, 254-word article on the fact that Donald Trump likes only pink and red Starbursts, then slammed him for...well, eating Starbursts.
I’m not even kidding you a little bit. Here’s what The Hill actually felt the need to report:
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R) had an aide pick out the pink and red Starbursts to give to President Trump as a gift after noticing that Trump only ate those flavors, The Washington Post reported Monday.
McCarthy and Trump were on Air Force One in October when McCarthy noticed that Trump was only eating the cherry and strawberry Starburst pieces.
“We’re there, having a little dessert, and he offers me some,” McCarthy told The Post. “Just the red and the pink. A bit later, a couple of his aides saw me with those colors and told me, ‘Those are the president’s favorites.’”
A few days later, McCarthy bought some Starbursts and instructed an aide to sort through them and put only the pink and red ones in a jar.
Following that piece of hard-hitting, world-rocking news, The Hill concluded that:
Trump’s Starbursts preferences are the latest revelation of his less-than-healthy food choices. The president’s love of fast food, particularly McDonald’s, has been well-documented.
The fact that a news outlet that isn’t The Onion felt the need to report on Trump’s positive opinion of chewy fruit candy – which is delicious by the way – would be even more jaw-droppingly asinine if the media hadn’t already spent gobs of time obsessing over trivial details like which McDonalds Trump prefers, what t-shirts Barron wears and whether Melania’s high heels are sexist.