{"id":12655,"date":"2020-10-07T11:33:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T18:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12655"},"modified":"2020-10-07T11:34:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T18:34:06","slug":"trump-escaping-wile-e-coyotevirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trump-escaping-wile-e-coyotevirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Escaping Wile E. Coyotevirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once&nbsp;it was announced that President Trump had COVID-19, the media almost immediately talked of all the people in the \u201cTrump orbit\u201d who fell ill from COVID-19 \u2014 including many on his staff, U.S. senators, and at least three White House reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The surreal subtext was not that the toxic Trump had been infected by someone else. Apparently reporters, in their Trump-obsessed universe, believed in some mysterious Aristotelian concept of spontaneous generation, by which his self-spawned coronavirus germs had sickened all within his deadly circuit. Or perhaps Trump was guilty of catching the germ from one of his staffers, who in turn would never have been sickened if they had never been close to Trump in the first place. The possibility that the White House \u201cpositive\u201d reporters might have been careless at times or might\u2019ve infected others was never entertained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Within a few hours, the usual camps and suspects weighed in. Former Clinton and Obama staffer&nbsp;Zara Rahim&nbsp;prayed for Trump\u2019s demise and celebrated his infection with a terse \u201cI hope he dies.\u201d The&nbsp;<em>Washington Post<\/em>&nbsp;hastily took down an official Twitter feed automatically posting an op-ed column expressing a similar hope for a dead president: \u201cImagine what it will be like to never have to think about Trump again,\u201d on the realization that running such a headline while Trump was sick&nbsp;\u201crendered it tasteless\u201d\u2014 as if it was not tasteless when he was well.&nbsp;Write that after swapping the name \u201cObama\u201d for \u201cTrump,\u201d and the FBI would have shown up at their doors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/10\/trump-escaping-wile-e-coyotevirus\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Once&nbsp;it was announced that President Trump had COVID-19, the media almost immediately talked of all the people in the \u201cTrump orbit\u201d who fell ill from COVID-19 \u2014 including many on his staff, U.S. senators, and at least three White House reporters. The surreal subtext was not that the toxic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3i7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9908,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/presidential-payback-for-media-hubris\/","url_meta":{"origin":12655,"position":0},"title":"Presidential Payback for Media Hubris","author":"victorhanson","date":"March 2, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson\/\/Defining Ideas \u00a0 \u00a0This article is reprinted from Defining Ideas, an online journal at the Hoover Institution. 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