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When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.

Gene Weingarten

On Twitter, people like me regularly get called “sore losers” by Trumpeters. It just makes me roll my eyes. This is not about winning and losing. We all lost, even them, they just don’t know it yet.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Eye Lose People Winning
I think politics is everything.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Everything Politics Thinking
I once found myself driving, smoking a cigar, taking notes, and talking on the phone at the same time. I only became completely aware of this when I had to shift, and realized something had to give.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Giving Phones Talking
I think we too often go soft in trying to spare people the agony of confronting reality.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Agony Reality Thinking
I don’t think there is prejudice against atheists the same way there is prejudice against fat people. I don’t think people hate or contemn atheists; I think people feel sorry for atheists.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Atheist Hate Sorry
Many put him in the second tier, below the big three and surrounded by Truman and Eisenhower. Kennedy moved our soul. Changed our thinking about service and governance. And won big in the greatest nuclear crisis of the Cold War.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Change Greatest Many Won
I think Hillary Clinton will make a fine president, and (most important) I am comfortable with her making gigantic, momentous decisions.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Decision Important Thinking
I don’t consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Clinton Evil Two
But this does me no good because, being intelligent and sophisticated human beings, they are all contemptuous of Trump. They hate him. They find him…vulgar.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Contemptuous Sophisticated Vulgar
So, when this kind of thing happens to other people, we need to put them in a different category from us. We don’t want to resemble them, and the fact that we might is too terrifying to deal with. So, they have to be monsters.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Category Deal Happens Terrifying
It’s as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Order Sides Steak
The odd thing is that Trump’s hand movements don’t seem to coordinate with the topic at hand. Most pols manage to make their hand movements correspond with the message, so a slash will accompany emphasis, etc.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Eye Make Movements Moving Notable
You know, I am not a particular Kennedy apologist or an awed fan – I was 12 when he was murdered – but I have discussed Kennedy with historians. For his incredibly short tenure, he was a very important president.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Soul Thinking War
From the inside, creativity seems like an arduous task, often involving plebeian, imperfect choices, driven less by inspiration than by deadline.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Arduous Choices Inside Involving
My neighborhood is fairly white, yet the local middle school is all black. It is bad. It is very bad.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Black Local Middle School
I very much believe in the Intentional Fallacy. If Donald Trump lies and dopes and bumbles and staggers his way into peace in the middle east, he gets credit for it. He owns it.
GENE WEINGARTEN

Believe Dope Lying

When Trump says fake news, he means journalism that makes points with which he disagrees, usually about him.

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