Trump and Fox: Denying and then Gaslighting

Hopefully Rational

Trump and Fox News - Denied that the new coronavirus was a concern, then tried to convice the world that they treated it as a serious danger all along.

It is clear to me that Slate has a generally liberal bias, but part of being rational is acknowledging bias, but not allowing that bias to keep you from evaluating content on its own merit.

This article, Let's Never Forget That Trump and Fox News Started as Coronavirus Truthers displays a lot of contempt for Trump and Fox News1, but that doesn't change the truth of it's basic assertion.

The President and Fox News made it clear that they believed that being concerned about the new coronavirus and trying to point out that we (the U.S. and the world) needed to take it seriously and start doing something about it sooner rather than later was just an attempt to discredit the President.

Then, they proverbially "turned on a dime" and started acting like they had been taking this seriously all along.

  1. I have to acknowledge my biases too. I also have a lot of contempt for Trump and Fox News. But one point of this content is to try to evaluate issues both "hopefully" and "rationally". ↩