[See NewsBusters for more.] For the past several weeks, the media has condemned President Trump for not showing enough empathy given the state of the country. After the conclusion of the RNC, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell and the Washington Post's Philip Rucker declared on Friday that such attempts to show empathy don't matter anymore because they're not real anyway, with Rucker going so far as to declare that Trump pretended not to be a racist during his speech.
Mitchell summarized RNC speakers as, "trying to redefine the president as warm, empathetic, kind, and specifically saying this is not the guy you see but we know him better."