Fox & Friends devoted a chunk of their 11 minutes of Donald-Trump fawning to rehabbing his much-ridiculed tweet eating a taco bowl on Cinco de Mayo and declaring, “I love Hispanics!”
As I’ve previously written, you need to see Trump’s insulting tweet to believe it.
Not surprisingly, the internet pounced, with just the kind of mockery Trump deserved.
So in today's Fox & (Trump) Friends phoner today, the Friends put forth their best Trump PR effort.
But first, the Trump Friends worked on attacking Speaker of the House Paul Ryan for refusing to endorse Trump.
Cohost Steve Doocy probed the situation with an incisive, totally fair and balanced question. Noting that Ryan “wants you to change your tune and change your tone, Doocy asked, "What’s up with that?” Later, Doocy “asked” if Ryan’s reluctance to endorse Trump might be “sour grapes.”
Cohost Ainsley Earhardt had her own brand of penetrating journalism. “Does it even matter? Because the reason you’re doing well and have done so well is because you’re anti-establishment and the voters are getting behind you for that,” she said.
Later Doocy asked about Trump’s thug campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, “Have you given him a raise yet?” That got a big laugh from the one-big-happy, Trump-loving family.
Then Earhardt, who has helped Sean Hannity go to bat for segregation, started up the bigotry rehab. As the lower-third read, “SHOULD MOVEMENT SHIFT TO ‘NEVERHILLARY?’” Earhardt suggested that Clinton is hated by Hispanics:
EARHARDT: “Now Hillary is still fighting Bernie and yesterday, when you were in West Virginia, getting the award from the Coal Miners Association, she’s out in California and she is having a Cinco de Mayo party. There were a lot of protesters out there… did not want her there. Hundreds of people showed up, holding up signs. One sign said, “We only matter when it’s Cinco de Mayo.” Another one said, “Hillary, do your friends make $12 or $15 an hour?” What’s your response to that?
In case anyone missed the point, the lower third now read: “’NUNCA HILLARY,’ HECKLERS: CLINTON PANDERS TO LATINO VOTERS.”
“Well, you know Hillary is not a unifier,” Trump began. “[…] and I was actually not surprised to see all the protesters.” Then he started boasting again about getting an award from coal miners, which had already been mentioned, and moved on to other predictable anti-Clinton, pro-Trump talking points.
But Doocy brought Trump back to the obviously pre-planned, Trump-boosting, Fox talking point, the taco bowl tweet.
DOOCY: So while she was out in Los Angeles getting a bad reception from a number of protesters, on Cinco de Mayo, you tweeted out an image of you there at Trump towers with a taco bowl, talking about how you were having that and they make really good ones at the Trump Grill there, in your building, [Trump interrupted to say, “They do” and Earhardt giggled appreciatively]. After you posted that, Robert Zimmerman, who is a Hillary surrogate and a DNC committee member –
TRUMP: Flunky. He’s a flunky.
“OK, that’s your depiction,” Doocy said, distancing himself from the slur without really challenging it. He then played a clip of Zimmerman saying about Trump’s tweet, “It’s like the Iranian ayatollah having matzoh ball soup and claiming he loves Jews!”
TRUMP: That’s a terrible thing that a guy can say that. You know I had, and that was as of yesterday, I had 59,000 retweets. 59,000 in a short period of, what? And that’s like – almost gotta be some kind of a record. People loved it. And you know what? I’m gonna do great with the Hispanics. I’m gonna do fantastically.
Unfortunately, for Trump, much of the taco bowl attention was negative. As for doing great with "the Hispanics," polls show otherwise. But, of course, nobody pointed out those inconvenient truths. Nobody pointed out the obvious, either. That Trump's tweet was nothing but insulting to Hispanics.
Watch it below from the May 6 Fox & Friends:
“I know that Trump is not a rocket scientist by any stretch of the imagination, but can he REALLY be stupid enough to think that Latinos are so dumb that they will feel better about him after this?”
Here’s my answer mlp:
IS THE POPE CATHOLIC??
;^)