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Trump Gets Trolled Epically By The New York Post Over Latest Presidential Bid

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Donald Trump’s announcement that he will make a third run for the White House has been met with the coolest of reactions from the media – with one once supportive newspaper trolling the former US president.

On Tuesday, Trump made public the worst kept secret in politics by unveiling his 2024 campaign from his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. He appeared to preview a campaign slogan – “Make America Great And Glorious Again” or “MAGAGA” – that raised plenty of eyebrows on social media.

The announcement came despite the disappointing midterm election results that saw the majority of the candidates he endorsed defeated, and his low energy performance on Tuesday only added to the lack of enthusiasm around Trump’s latest pitch.

Step forward the New York Post, the newspaper owned by conservative media magnate Rupert Murdoch.

“Florida Man Makes Announcement,” was the headline running across the bottom of the front page of its Wednesday edition, directing readers to an article on buried on page 26.

The tone of the story, under the headline Been There, Don That, was even more savage.

The copy refers to Trump as a “Florida retiree” and his Mar-a-Lago resort as a “classified-documents library”, a reference to the investigation Trump faces for retaining government records, some of which were marked as highly classified.

It adds: “His cholesterol levels are unknown, but his favorite food is a charred steak with ketchup.”

The reporter also points out that Trump himself has stated that “his qualifications for office include being a ‘stable ­genius’.”

Maggie Haberman, reporter for The New York Times and author of Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America, said on CNN: “There is nobody who knows better than Rupert Murdoch that the way to upset Donald Trump is not to say his name.”

Last week, the Post put the blame for the Republican Party’s showing in the midterm elections squarely on the former president and his choice of candidates.

On its Thursday front page, the Post depicted Trump as the hapless nursery rhyme character Humpty Dumpty.

“Don (who couldn’t build a wall) had a great fall — can all the GOP’s men put the party back together again?” the tabloid newspaper asked.

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On Wednesday, the Post suggested Florida’s Republican governor Ron DeSantis was “DeFUTURE” of the GOP with this front page.

DeSantis is widely tipped to run for president in 2024 and convincingly won reelection in the midterms.

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Rupert Murdoch’s NY Post Reportedly Demands Workers Mask Up As It Slams Mask Mandates

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Workers at the New York Post have been ordered to mask up even while the newspaper slams masks and mask mandates to its readers and the public, CNN Business reported Monday.

It’s the latest searing case of hypocrisy to emerge this month in media mogul Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp world. While Fox News personalities Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson rage against vaccines and masks, Fox last week demanded that all staff disclose their vaccination status. 

The same Fox memo also encouraged even fully vaccinated people to mask up in public spaces, and it’s mandated for all in “small, confined spaces.”

New York Post workers were told in an August 12 memo from Sean Giancola, publisher and chief executive of the tabloid, that “masks are required while walking the floor/not at your desk,” CNN reported.

Employees must “mask up” and “cover” their face when “away from their desk or chatting with colleagues,” according to CNN, which obtained a copy of the memo. Workers may remove masks when sitting alone at their desks.

Workers are also required to submit to a daily health screening “every day before entering the office,” so they don’t come to work sick.

Yet despite that standard for its own workers, the Post has railed against calls to mask up, incredibly blasting it as “madness” when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended in July that even the vaccinated wear masks in communities with high transmission rates of COVID-19. The Post’s editorial also called the CDC recommendation “nonsense” and “pernicious.”

An earlier Post editorial even called for scrapping mask mandates on trains and buses because it claimed the health safety measure was “pointless.”

There was reportedly no mention of a vaccine requirement in the Post memo, unlike the demand from Fox News.

A disgusted Malcolm Turnbull, former prime minister of Australia, last month accused Murdoch of using his media properties to peddle lies about Covid-19 that he himself doesn’t believe just to make money by pandering to his gullible consumers.

“Rupert got himself vaccinated as quickly as he could; he’s not a fool. He  knows the vaccines work,” Turnbull said in an interview.

Murdoch is “making billions of dollars out of a news channel, a news platform, Fox News, which is promoting and enabling all of this vaccine hesitancy,” Turnbull warned.

“Anybody who is “promoting these conspiracy theories about vaccines, and anyone who is discouraging people from getting vaccinated is contributing to death and disease. There’s no question about that,” Turnbull said.

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The New York Post Outed A Paramedic As A Sex Worker. Here’s What They Didn’t Tell You

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