The paragraph I highlighted above follows:
“Our groceries are way down. Everything is way down, and the press doesn’t report it. The press reports whatever the con people say. You know, I call the Democrats con men and women. They make up numbers,” Trump, who is known to lie consistently, said, as he repeated bogus numbers and claims in characteristically erroneous and inconsiderate rambles at the White House.
This is the current opening page on HuffPost:
Clicking takes you to Billionaire Trump Doesn’t ‘Want To Hear About The Affordability’ Problem Many Americans Are Facing.
The title itself is a editorial opinion. Yes, Virgina, there is a billionaire who doesn’t give two shit’s about our not having enough money to buy food this week.
Someone at HuffPost decided to use the photo they did I expect figuring that it made an editorial statement and asked the question “does this look like someone who cares?”
Hmm… does the person in the photo look like someone who cares that kids are going to school without bringing lunch this morning now that they can’t get a free lunch there anymore (thank’s to the president).
This is quite possibly what he ate for lunch this afternoon:
Getting back to that one short article and that paragraph.
We are so accustomed to words from the President of the United States that mangle grammar. “Our groceries are way down” and “everything is way down” for example. What happened? Did our groceries and everything else we need fall into a well?
Perhaps this that the press ignored a “baby Jessica fell in a well” story.
Trump refers to “con people” who make numbers up.
The HuffPost writer who wrote this is Trayler S. Mitchell (bio)
She thinks that we need to be reminded that Trump lies consistently and shares bogus information. Mitchell added her observation that Trump inconsiderately rambles. Putting these two words together tells us that Trump is both inconsiderate and that he rambles.
This is the opposite of saying we have a president who is considerate and articulate, something that never would be reported about any other president. Of all the differences between Trump and every other president in our history these are the among the least relevant.
I am sure that this writer knows that the typical reader of HuffPost is well informed and doesn’t need to be told or reminded that Trump is an inconsiderate rambling liar.
However, I totally forgive her for taking her reportorial task beyond “just the facts” (see footnote>1 ) into editorializing.
It has to be frustrating to resist blurring the lines between reporting and editorializing.
I doubt I could do it if I actually had a job working for a news website. Of course HuffPost isn’t really a straight-on news website even though Wikipedia calls it is an American progressive news website. Their main story opening page titles are often exercises in alliterative snarky editorializing sometimes with innuendo. Consider the sexually suggestive “Election Eruption.” I look forward to seeing how they title the main page link which is to articles with entirely diffrent titles.
I am happy to be able to editiorialize and vent to my black hearts content as I put together my morning Substacks.
Addendum/Updtate:
I wrote this before I looked at my friend Sarbina Haake’s Facebook page. Shhe writes the Substack The Haake Take. This is what she wrote:
Everyone knows groceries have gone up, so have energy bills and just about everything. But Trump and Fox News keep telling their base that everything is cheaper. I can’t help but get the impression Trump thinks his supporters are stupid.
Inflation has risen under Trump to 3%, the jobs market is disastrous, and about half the states are in recession. the dow is doing fine, but forecasters think it’s in a bubble that will burst when tariffs catch up with consumers.
Trump is making a huge deal out of Walmart’s 2025 Thanksgiving meal cost, saying it is “cheaper” this year.
But Walmart and others clarified: the 2024 Tday meal contained 21 items while the 2025 list includes only 15, and most of the brand name items listed in the 2024 meal were replaced with far cheaper Walmart brand items in 2025.
She had a link to this CNN article: “Fact check: Cheaper Walmart Thanksgiving meal touted by Trump has fewer items than last year’s.”
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Joe Friday in the television series “Dragnet,” where he famously used the phrase “All we want are the facts, ma’am,” although he never said “just the facts, ma’am” exactly.
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