Article in FAIR by Pete Tucker, 8/14/25
Headline: “Trump Occupying DC: WaPo Used to Be Disgusted”
“. . .With DC’s self-governance under threat, the city’s paper of record is positioned to play a critical role. Right off the bat, Washington Post columnist Marc Fisher sounded the alarm about Trump’s actions, telling the New Yorker (8/11/25), ‘This is troops-in-the-streets, shades-of-authoritarian-rule bad.’
“The next day, however, Fisher sounded like a different person in Post column (8/12/25). Trump was transformed from authoritarian to ‘astute-but-flawed leader’. . .”
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Article in Media Matters by Gideon Taaffee & Chloe Simon, 8/14/25
Headline: “Right-wing media cheer for Trump to deploy National Guard to other American cities after DC”
Subhead: “TPUSA’s Charlie Kirk: ‘We got a big military. We should be willing to use it.’ “
“After President Donald Trump announced on August 11 that he is deploying the National Guard to Washington, D.C., and suggested he would do it in other major U.S. cities too, many in right-wing media celebrated the announcement, claiming D.C. should be a ‘test case’ and arguing that ‘we need full military occupation’ of other ‘problematic cities’ like New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles. . .”
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